Thank you, Night Cat and Dikkertjedap, I think sugar education should be a must for all children and adults. I'd like to know which school offered that ftastic seminar and vending mashine bann, not that our school has a vending mashine, but every supermarket is filled with sweets right into childrens faces.
There are many myths and misconceptions, there are also a website I once found that says sugar is good for you written by a Doctor (it claimed so)!
Childrens'sugar level(same as adults, time intervals is the diffrence) gets too low mostly in two case scenarios, (1)when they go round for long time witout a healthy slow release sugar meal/snack.(Ultimately all the food is sugar - glucose;the difference is the speed with wich it released into the blood stream). And (2)when chidlren/adults just ate a high sugarsnack and their blood sugar drops down after a great amount of insulin was send into the bloodstream to fight that high level of sugar. That only creates a craving of another sugar portion to fix that low sugar in the blood. Finally it's a rollercoaster.
So to prevent this children (and actually adults, too) need to snack often on healthy slow eneregy releasing snacks (nuts,yes,only those who allergic don't need to eat nuts, seeds, apples, some other fruit, vegies and other staff like coldpressed oat-fruit bars, milk, yougurts, even pieces of cold meat, not processed meats), not high Glucemic Index snacks like buiscuits, chocolates, cakes, flapjacks, sweets and energy drinks/sodas and juices and smoothies, that have no nutitional value at all.
I don't know what American Society of Pediatritians motivation is but most of the good stuff about sugar is paid by sugar industry, like the main stream doctors are by pharmaceuticals.
Children need good nutrition with good protein/carb ratio that provides steady supply of glucose into the bloodstream.