Is sugar killing our kids?

[WorriedGrandad]

I'm worried. I've just seen a private preview of a new eco documentary, Robert Golden's This Good Earth, which is released Jan 21. In it doctors, scientists and academics are warning our much-sugared diet is set to destroy our kids, with babies as young as 2 months having diabetes and obesity rates rising from 3% to 25% in 25 years. The film warns that we are eating ourselves to death, should we be more actively campaigning for sugar to be somehow officially rationed, like banned from all school meals?

[Cash02]

I don’t quite understand how a two month old would have type 2 diabetes?
However I was a fat child, who’s now a fat adult, I have a 7 month old so trying to lose the weight to be a good role model.
Having been fat my whole life I can truly say that banning sugar from school meals won’t do a thing, a school meal is a small fraction of what a child eats in a day and won’t be making them obese alone, the issue is within the household and the mental health of the child. Sugar isn’t the only factor, high fat and saturated fat foods also contribute. At some point you’re just going to be cutting out every food group.
The problem starts with the parents not the child themselves, if a young child who’s obese wants ‘bad’ food they’ll get it, trust me I know.
CAHMS is a ridiculous service however I feel like it could do a lot of obese kids good if it was sorted out.
Obesity is more down culture than anything else, with children, like my self, from working class backgrounds being at a higher risk, issues with money, lack of recourses and issues within the home create an environment for bad eating habits and bad outlooks on food. Not mention that eating habits are very much generational, we eat what our parents eat, which their parents ate.
I also saw an interesting study on the links between formula and obesity in children, the rates of BF in the UK is very low so, may be a correlation.