Counting Sugar

Josh told me an interesting anecdote about sugar. Apparently, we now eat as much sugar in a week as a person living 1000 years ago ate in one year. He has been unable to provide me a reference so it may be skewed but the point is is that we eat WAY more sugar than we used to, or need.

I also read that high-fructose-corn-syryp (HFCS) is a vile stuff and that kids 6+ should have no more than 40-50g of added sugar per day. Really, 40 should be the upper limit for kids Frost's age. So, as an experiment I have been counting and limiting Frost to that amount. Here is the result for Day 1:

6g Breakfast cereal (puffins)
14g Granola bar snack for lunch
1/2 glass of ovaltine with unsweetened soy milk (5g)
7g Two cookies in lunchbox
3g 3 chocolate altoids when he came home
7g Two more cookies after school
10g Icecream desert
=52g

Denied:
Drinking Josh's soda at 45g per can
More altoids at 1g each
More ovaltine at 10g per full glass
Juice

He did eat all the other stuff (apples, strawberries, pita, hummus, some vegies, some chicken, goldfish) but think how much more hungry he could be.... [evil glint in eye]