A new study suggests that replacing sugar in the diets of obese children with starchy foods like crisps and pizza dramatically improves their health. It follows calls by health professionals, academics, nutritionists and campaigners for a tax on sugar to protect the health of children.
According to Professor Robert Lustig, an American paediatric endocrinologist, who carried out the research, replacing sugar, including fructose, with starchy foods in the diets of 43 obese children reversed their metabolic syndrome – a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity – within ten days. This is despite the children, who were aged nine to 18, consuming the same number of calories in starch as they had in sugar.
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