Parents’ considerable underestimation of sugar and their child’s risk of overweight
High sugar intake is associated with an increased risk of overweight. For parents, as their children’s nutritional gatekeepers, knowledge about sugar is a prerequisite for regulating sugar consumption. Yet little is known about parental ability to estimate the sugar content of foods and beverages and how this ability is associated with children’s body mass index (BMI).
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