sugar shocker presentation sugar shocker: what’s in your drink?
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Sugar Shocker presentation
Why do drinks matter?
• Eating or drinking lots of sugar is not healthy and can cause diseases like diabetes.
• Many drinks contain lots of hidden sugar.
• A diet high in pop or sugary drinks has additional health risks.
• Drinking pop can mean we drink lots of caffeine too.
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Best Choices:
• Wonderful Water: Healthy drink choice!
• Marvelous Milk: Healthy drink choice!
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Choose Sometimes:
• Unsweetened Juice
• Flavoured Milk (i.e. chocolate milk)
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• Chocolate Bar Milkshake
• The BIG One, slush drinks, Pop, Diet Pop
Choose Least Often:
• Sports Drink
• Fruit Drink
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Sugar in drinks
• One cup (250ml) of milk contains about 3 tsp of sugar
• One cup (250ml) of unsweetened fruit juice contains about 7 tsp of sugar.
• Drinks with added sugar have more calories and don’t have the nutrients of milk and juice.
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The Problem with Sugary Drinks
• Soft drinks have no nutritional value
• Today school kids drink 3 times more pop than 20 years ago
• They now drink twice as much pop as milk
• Excess weight gain in children has been linked to sugar-sweetened drinks
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Your choice matters!
Sugar and Tooth Decay:
• Sugar mixes with bacteria in your mouth and makes acid
• Diet and ”sugar-free” drinks also contain acid
• Acid breaks down tooth enamel
• An acid “attack” lasts 20 minutes and starts again with every sip
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Your choice matters!
Obesity and overweight:
• High-sugar drinks add empty calories that can lead to weight gain
• Obese people have a higher chance of getting heart disease, cancer, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure
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Your choice matters!Osteoporosis:• Osteoporosis happens when your
bones become weak and brittle• Osteoporosis can happen if you
don’t get enough calcium and vitamin D in your diet
• Sugary drinks are often chosen instead of milk, which means that person may not get enough calcium and vitamin D
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About Calcium:
According to Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating, children and youth need:
Age group # Servings of milk product
per day
Children 4-9 years
2-3
Youth 10-16 years
3-4
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Your choice matters!
Caffeine:• Some pop (such as Coke, Pepsi, Barq’s
Root Beer, Jolt, Dr.Pepper) and some energy drinks contain caffeine
• Caffeine is a stimulant and affects people according to their body weight
• One can of cola (355 ml) may have the same effect on a young child as four cups of coffee would have on an adult
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Other reasons to
• Pop and other drinks create garbage
• Healthy drinks help you concentrate better in school
• Natural drinks are more traditional
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Rethink your drink, and you will:
• Have a great smile
• Have a healthy environment
• Have healthy bones
• Have better concentration
• Have good overall health
• Keep up traditionsSource: www.dropthepopnwt.ca
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References:
• “(T-1) BACKGROUND INFORMATION”, Rethink Your Drink Campaign, Calgary Health Region (www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/rethinkyourdrink)
• Drop The Pop NWT (www.dropthepopnwt.ca)
• David Thompson Health Region “You Are What You Eat” presentation (www.dthr.ab.ca/resources/documents/nutrition/index.htm)
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