It is well known that drinking Soda brings more contradictions than benefits to the health of the people; those most affected are children.

However, due to its sweet taste and brightly colored, is the favorite beverage for many, which is why we will give you tips to reduce the consumption of soft drinks in children.

according to a study in Belgium published by Mother Nature Network, the best way for children to drink fewer carbonated soft drinks is fail to include them in daily meals as they are often limited in the food scrap; because that makes you become accustomed more access to the drink, which if consumed in large doses, can increase the risk of diabetes by its high sugar content.

Here are two suggestions to help reduce the consumption of drinks among children and guide them to drink more healthy options to accompany food and quench the thirst.

  • Avoid buy soda as much as possible. In investigations that were conducted, children who was removed access to the soda in a drastic way presented a higher improvement to children that was them preserved the drink without restriction, while an explanation them that they could not drink followed because it is bad for the health. A child fails to understand fully the as something can be bad if you see other people do it and it has at its disposal, so the best is to avoid buying drinks for a while to not provoke temptations in small.
  • Look for attractive and healthy alternatives. In the case of young children, this is easier, because you can simply buy vessels striking, colorful popotes or add some decoration to the drink in question to make it more attractive to the eye. If children are older and are accustomed to drinking soft drinks during meals, it will be difficult to make that they consume otherwise without problems (more not-impossible); increasingly emerge more juices with least amount of conservatives and artificial flavoring in the market. Comment not the mistake of opting for commercial beverage powder, because they generally also contain high doses of sugar as soda; the ideal is natural juice, so we recommend to carefully read the ingredients of the juice of interest.

In addition to these two points we touched, recalled that most of the drinks tend to be drinks that stain the teeth if taken long term; even some healthy drinks can do, which is why in addition to avoid drinking this type of refreshments, should not forget a constant good oral hygiene.