Child nutrition: why basing dietary decisions on the calorie content of food can still lead to detrimental choices...

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Basing dietary decisions on the calorie content of foods and fluids - an action that's currently being encouraged by Change4Life (the two snacks, 100 calories max campaign) in an attempt to aid our childhood obesity crisis - can still leave little'uns consuming unhealthy options. This is simply due to the fact that low-calorie food (and fluid!) sources can still contain a substantial amount of salt, sugar and/or saturated fat per serving (think the 89 calories and 15g of sugar found in six wine gum sweets), and resembles a root reason why we should be focusing on promoting a positive relationship with food (and the beneficial nutrients that certain sources contain), as opposed to teaching tots' to fixate on figures by banning them from specific food sources simply because we're told that they contain too many calories for children to consume. 

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