Sour outcome of sugar addiction

Eating too much sugar led to 43,000 kids having rotting teeth removed in hospital last year.

And still health ministers dance around refusing to confront the bloated multimillion-pound food firms with their lobbyists and their threats.

Some people will tell you parents must do more to control their kids’ eating. Those people are almost always the parents of tiny children who never leave the house alone or parents whose kids left home when the high point of confectionery was an Aztec bar.

The food companies could do all sorts to reduce sugar in foods should they wish.

They don’t. Why? Because sugar is addictive and every rotting tooth warms their heart as evidence their drug is working.

I’m prepared to try my hardest to prevent my kids from destroying their teeth and bodies with sugar. But this is not a battle parents can or should have to fight alone.