Dr. Chris Magryta: In other news
Published 12:00 am Sunday, February 12, 2017
1) The latest CDC statistics regarding sugar beverage consumption are out and they are still not good. Fully 2/3 of children consume a sugar laden beverage daily with 20% of them consuming 2 per day and 10% slugging down three or more! Both boys and girls consumed over 7% of their daily calories as a beverage.
They also found that older children consumed more of these beverages than their younger brethren.
Try and reduce the amount of sugar laden beverages that pass your child’s lips by not having any in the house.
2) Microplastics in fish. Just when we thought that we had enough issues with health and a toxic environment, we now have a new issue. Small pieces of plastic material are being found in the tissue/meat of ocean and lake fish that we consume. The significance of this issue is still being researched but likely will not be good.
Reduce plastic waste by recycling, choosing healthy products without micro beads of plastic.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db271.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/microplastics-fish-shellfish-1.3954947
Dr. Chris Magryta is a physician at Salisbury Pediatric Associates. Contact him at newsletter@salisburypediatrics.com
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