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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Cliff bars are candy. Unless your child is an athlete, I would avoid it. It has more sugar than a Snickers bar. It has 22 grams of sugar and recommended daily dose for women per day is 25. Is there something healthier that she will eat?

Thats right. Welcome to he world of type 2 diabetes.[/quote]

She's not going to get Type 2 diabetes from having a Clif bar every day. WTF.  Are people really counting calories and grams of each and every thing that's in their teenagers' food?  I'm surprised no one commented that apples have too much sugar and you should just offer kale and raw almonds.

Clif bars are gross, so you could probably find a tastier bar that she likes better, but she could be eating a worse lunch. [/quote]

She might, she really might get it.  Plus you have to take into account that majority of people don't have just one "candy bar" per day.  Sugar is in salad dressing, pasta sauce, etc, but most likely that is not the only item with sugar this kid will eat in a day. Cereal anybody? Canned tomato soup has more sugar than Krispy Kreme doughnut. If she drinks juice you are adding a ton of sugar as well, etc. Diabetes 2 aside, sugar promotes the growth of fat cells around our organs and it is a strong pro inflammatory agent. Simply put, sugar causes fat, more than animal fat does. Sugar causes cholesterol more than animal fat does. Now, if she exercised 3 hours per day, and didn't have predisposition to cholesterol and diabetes, she would be ok, probably. Just because some kids are skinny doesn't mean they don't have cholesterol or early stages of diabetes. Why do you think there are no percentages on labels for sugar?  Because sugar/food lobby fought it and won.  How would you feel if instead of 22gr, it said 90% of recommended daily sugar intake on that bar?[/quote]

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