another of cod's parpy artricle s - this time...about sweets

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i think i have done you proud my friends
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As far as I can gather, it means there was bog-all correlation between sugar intake and IQ, MI :o

That boys shouldn't eat Plasma Ascorbic Acid, and that whole blood glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9) activity should be promoted amongst kids of both sexes?
Are these ingredients present in a Happy Meal, please??

Hmmm...combining two threads in one, I usually get my toddler to shut up on long-distance flights by giving him chocolate. But am I actually making him crazier? But then I am pissing off Jeremy Clarkson and Jane Clarke in one go, so it's got to be worth it.

at article

d'you think its sugar though issymum or maybe the weirdness in chupa chups

Aha, Enid has inadvertently answered my issymum identity question.

(Oh, and very big congratulations Enid. Have been off mn for an age but return today to find you are delivered. Hurrah!)

i have that cookery book too enid, it was a freebie from work. the flapjacks with apple filling recipe is brilliant, i just flick past her eulogising..

The only food that I have definitely noticed affects both my children every time are those supermarket bought birthday cakes.

Smarties in our house, omg, it is like pressing a button.....offfff they go, fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Banned!

OK, I'm actually going to stand up for Jane Clarke here. (Partly because I know 2 people who know her and think she is fantastic, partly because I really like her "BodyFoods" books). I think you have to bear in mind that she is a nutritionist as well. A friend of mine had lunch with her and was concerned she would be all odd and censorious - and, worse, not drink!- but she was entirely ordinary, ate everything off a very eclectic menu and is not averse to a glass of wine. (My friend also said that she is a wonderful advertisement for what she preaches as she looks very "glowing" (his words!))

I only read that article and thought it was trying to say that it is difficult trying to establish a "baseline" of little to no sugar with children. And actually mine (2 and 4) rarely eat sweets at all - other than, date I say it, the occasional square of dark chocolate. The only Easter eggs they got were about 5 small solid chocolate ones each from an Easter egg hunt and they haven't even eaten all of those yet. And I'm not an Annabel Karmel-type, Times reader, either: my parents are both diabetic and we are trying to ensure that children don't get into the habit of unthinkingly eating lots of very sweet things as a default. They certainly don't have sweets as often as once a week and honestly at the moment aren't all that bothered.

Jane Clarke's books have loads of baking recipes in them: I seem to remember all she says is that you should look at changing some of the flour propertions to include wholemeal flour, make things with apples and carrots in - all standard GI-based stuff. I'm not sure advocating carrot cake over, say, a fondant fancy makes her as sanctimonious as some people think! Agree that the article is a bit earnest but fail to see that it is anywhere in the same league as last weeks' tosh as Florence sobbing into her boater.

By the way, I know for a fact that she does have lawyers

I liked her columns in the Observer.
More than this one.

I stuck up for her first Anchovy, can you tell her that please!

I made an absolutely divine carrot cake. :)

With crushed pineapple and raisins in addition to carrots.

Mmmm.

I was thinking about whether the 'inebriated' effect was a consequence of sugar or additives. The only way to find out would be to do a few controlled experiments on the DDs. If it is sugar, I will definitely think about cutting back further on the amount of sweets/chocolate we allow them as it may suggest that, presumably for genetic reasons, they don't handle sugar well.

chupa chups contain a sweetner called isomalt rather than sugar. No idea how that relates to sugar/how artificial it is. But the sweetners saccharine and aspartame make ds1 (very sensitive to crapness in foods) loopy. Haven't tried isomalt.

Anyone else get a sweet craving when they are tired. I have just raided DS's easter egg. Very little sleep and I have serious cravings.

No. I get a craving for caffeine when that happens.

I get sweet cravings when tired. also if I have had even the smallest amount to drink the night before

sweet cravings daily, then....

can i just say i liek the FULL SUGAR cherry chupa\ chups