Drinks killing our children

Children are fond of taking sweet things and parents have little or no control over this. Most drinks for children must be sweet but the question is what good are the sweet things doing to them? Most milk drinks are sweetened with Acesulfame K and many mothers are quick to pick them for their children without knowing the implication.

Recently out of curiosity I checked the ingredients of a flavoured drink targeted for kids and I found out an alternative sweetener with a caution of danger was used. Imagine aspartame being used as sweetener for drinks when clearly aspartame has a danger attached to consumption. Children cannot even read the instructions on some of these drinks, yet the drinks are approved for sale to children based on the fact that the danger involved has been written on it. Aspartame metabolism in the first place leads to some poisonous substances that the body rigorously works to take out! Should children be exposed to such danger and accumulation of dangerous toxic materials over time? Aspartame has a dangerous implication if taken by anybody(a child inclusive)with a genetic condition of Phenylketonuria with implication as bad as nervous breakdown or even death. How will a child know if he has this condition, how did a drink meant for children have aspartame sweetener and it got approved by the FDA. The Federal  Ministry of health should check the approval of aspartame in drinks for children as there may be more dangers involved than we can ever imagine.

The bad part of this is that this drinks are not even stored properly, they are stored inside the sun or hot environment. The sweetener is known to disintegrate at a high temperature and this is the reason it is not used in baked products as well as fried flowers. When this sweetener disintegrates, the possibility of methanol poisoning (effects of methanol poisoning) leading to organ problems is quite high and possible chronic disease from there.

Most milk drinks are sweetened with Acesulfame K (read about it here http://www.healthline.com/health/is-acesulfame-potassium-bad-for-me#2)

, another sweetener that leaves a metallic sweet after taste in your mouth. Are they safe? I am not very sure, As a Scientist, I will not make assertions about a thing until I have a scientific evidence on it. If I were any parent though, I will limit the intake of such drinks by my children, it is better to be safe than sorry.

Next time you see your child holding a flavoured drink, check the content, if you see aspartame as the sweetener, collect it, throw it out and ensure he doesn’t take such again. God help us raise our children safe.