The health secretary’s new dietary guidelines tell parents to cut the added sugar until their kids turn 11. “Misleading rhetoric “declaring war” on and creating unsubstantiated fear about a real ingredient like real sugar will not improve children’s health,” said Courtney Gaine, the association’s president and CEO, in a statement. “Real sugar — which comes only from sugar beets and sugar cane — plays many roles in food and cannot be removed without adding chemical additives like artificial sweeteners that large majorities of parents do not want in children’s food,” she added.
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