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Jennifer McCann

Why babies may be eating too much sugar

A woman stands in front of products at the grocery store. (Getty Images/d3sign)

Australian infants and toddlers are eating unhealthy amounts of sugar. This is mostly because the products marketed and sold by the processed food industry are high in sugar.

Based on the last Australian National Nutrition Survey, children ages two to three years old consumed 32 grams of added sugar per day, equivalent to 8 teaspoons of white sugar.

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