All people are born with the tendency to eat sweets. That’s why kids love sweets. Therefore, we have to be extra careful when we start giving solid food to our babies, in order to cover the whole variety of tastes. This will play an important role later in their life. If the baby doesn’t get accustomed to different tastes, it may -subconsciously, start craving sweets, something that might affect its eating habits in later life. Increased sweets consumption is linked to problems regarding body weight, heart problems, diabetes, an increase in lipid levels in the blood etc.
Sugar intake as well as saturated fat that sweets contain should be monitored by the parents. Parents should not only advice children, but they should also set the good example. As far as the diet is concerned, there is a fragile balance. On the one hand, children should not feel that they are restricted from having sweets. On the other hand, they should not be freely allowed to consume as many as they wish. Both cases may result in overconsumption. Thus, parents should help children build a healthy relationship with sweets.
There are no guidelines as to how often sweet can be consumed, but they mustn’t be eaten on a daily basis; it is preferable to consume them sparingly. You could give children sweets occasionally and in small portions.
Homemade sweet are always a better option. Since we shouldn’t restrict children from eating sugar, we can make the sweets at home! Cakes, biscuits and health bars with chocolate or dry fruit, homemade ice cream sorbet, fruit-salads, yogurt, etc.