Is Your Child Sugar Sensitive?

 

Let's look first at your child's behavior

q Does your child ask for sweet foods all the time?

q Does your child have unexpected meltdowns that turn into tantrums or tears?

q Is your child impulsive?

q Does your child have a very short fuse?

q Is your child wildly dramatic and goofy?

q Is your child restless and in motion all the time?

q Is your child known as a motor mouth?

q Does your child have a hard time paying attention?

q Does your child lock into a task for a long time and forget to do anything else?

 

And check your child's health:

q Does your child have lots of allergies?

q Does your child still wet the bed?

q Does your child have persistent ear infections?

q Is your child overweight?

q Does your child come home from school exhausted?

q Has your child been diagnosed with diabetes?

q Has your child been diagnosed with ADD or ODD?

And finally, and perhaps most important are the emotional clues:

q Does your child cry at the drop of a hat?

q Does your child go from being absolutely charming to pouting and moody?

q Does your child have low self-esteem even though he or she is smart, skilled, and capable?

q Does your child feel alone, isolated, not a part of the in-crowd at school or in the playground?