Robin Abcarian: Warning labels for soda might be the only way to save our children from the sugar lobby
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Jun 11, 2019
4 minutes
My sugar war began in January, when the third-grader arrived.
Breakfast? Scrambled eggs are OK, but she would rather have one of those processed sugar-and-cinnamon confections masquerading as cereal. Or perhaps a waffle drowned in syrup.
Lunch? How about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a chocolate energy bar, some trail mix she will ignore except for the M&Ms and maybe, if I am lucky, a handful of strawberries.
Dinner? Her aversion to fish is insurmountable, so we usually have chicken, turkey or steak. Thankfully, she loves broccoli. She will eat exactly one kind of salad:
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