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89 Percent Of Children's Food Products Provide Poor Nutritional Quality, Study Finds

by ryanborja | July 15, 2008 at 09:09 am | 132 views | add comment

Parents beware! Food products that we give to our children may not be healthy and can only give them poor healthy, study finds.

Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a Canadian study. Professor Charlene Elliott used US guidelines to review 367 products. 70 percent of the products had higher than recommended sugar levels, 23 percent had high fat levels and 17 percent had high salt levels.