Kids' Vitamins On Trial ; (1) Good Health(2) Packed with Goodness - or Full of Dangerous Additives? Our Expert Tells You Which Are Worth Buying
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WHAT can you do if your priority is five a day - but your child's is chips and ice cream? Many parents reach for multi-vitamins to fill the gap.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the market for children's supplements is growing rapidly amidst concerns that children aren't getting enough vitamins and minerals in their diet. Just this year a Food Safety Authority found that one in three Irish teenagers do not consume any fruit whatsover, depriving them of dozens of vitamins, not to mention fibre. But what many parents will be alarmed to learn is that even when they're trying to do the right thing for their children's health, they could be unwittingly exposing them to a worrying amount of 'junk', found in some of these supposedly healthy food supplements.See the full content of this document
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Kids' Vitamins On Trial ; (1) Good Health(2) Packed with Goodness - or Full of Dangerous Additives? Our Expert Tells You Which Are Worth Buying
Last year, the British Food Commission found many medicines for babies and children contain artificial colours, sweeteners and other additives. It seems that many supplements contain them, too.
In an analysis exclusively for the Mail, Dr Alex Richardson - a...See the full content of this document
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