Get ready for what I dub a bona fide SUGAR SHOCKER!
Earlier this week, a "horrified" Bitish Dental Health Foundation blasted the BBC for having the idiocy to post a song on its Cbeebies website that encourages kids to eat sweets "the whole day through."
Apparently, a day or two later, the bumbling BBC buckled under pressure and yanked the offending children's song. (It seems to have been pulled down in the middle of the night on U.S. time. You can't hear it anymore; when you click for the tune, you go nowhere.)
What the heck was a candy-glorifying song doing on the BBC site in the first place? Does idiocy reign at the British company? As an American, I've always revered the BBC. Not so now!
The song, called "Sweets," which was sung by the Tweenies, a group of animated children's characters, begins like this:
Sweets for my breakfast Sweets for my lunch Sweets for my supper too
The dental charity rightly complained that the song "gives the message that eating sweets is a positive thing and will persuade many children to eat more of them."
But, the group falls short in only citing dental decay.
As I learned while researching my book SUGAR SHOCK!, tooth problems are only a very small portion of the sour sugar story. Eating sweets all day long could yield to problems galore!
Get ready for what I dub a bona fide SUGAR SHOCKER!
Earlier this week, a "horrified" Bitish Dental Health Foundation blasted the BBC for having the idiocy to post a song on its Cbeebies website that encourages kids to eat sweets "the whole day through."
Apparently, a day or two later, the bumbling BBC buckled under pressure and yanked the offending children's song. (It seems to have been pulled down in the middle of the night on U.S. time. You can't hear it anymore; when you click for the tune, you go nowhere.)
What the heck was a candy-glorifying song doing on the BBC site in the first place? Does idiocy reign at the British company? As an American, I've always revered the BBC. Not so now!
The song, called "Sweets," which was sung by the Tweenies, a group of animated children's characters, begins like this:
The dental charity rightly complained that the song "gives the message that eating sweets is a positive thing and will persuade many children to eat more of them."
But, the group falls short in only citing dental decay.
As I learned while researching my book SUGAR SHOCK!, tooth problems are only a very small portion of the sour sugar story. Eating sweets all day long could yield to problems galore!