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Children Eat Half of Daily Sugar Intake Before 9am

More than 1 in 5 children in Great Britain are overweight or obese by the time they start school, and according to the Independent, one reason for this is the amount of sugar they consume — with half of their intake occurring before 9 a.m. No matter what country you’re in, the toxic truth is that sugar is linked to childhood obesity. According to Dr. Robert Lustig, one of America’s leading experts on childhood obesity, sugar — whether consumed as fructose or sucrose...