Sugar Sugar!

Although sugar is a part of life...there is a really great article about this in the new "Family Fun Magazine." It is called "Beat the Sugar Blues." It talks about simple strategies to reign in the sweet stuff without sacrificing the fun:

The article said that the average American kid consumes 116 pounds of sugar a year!
Here are a few tips from the article:
1) Mix sugar Cereal with non sugar cereal and each time you refill the container add more non-sugar cereal. Example would be Frosted flakes with cornflakes.
2) Turn Fruit into dessert by Freezing bananas, strawberries and blueberries and serve them as fruit kabobs or fruit-sicles.
3)Limit the Juice. Apple and Grape juice have roughly the same amount of sugar that Soda does. The recommended amount of juice for kids age 1-6 is no more than 4-6 ounces.

Also, it had two websites to read more: http://www.askdrsears.com/ and http://www.calorieking.com/
On the Askdrsears.com site go to "Nutrition" and then "Sugar'