Kate Hawkesby: Maybe we need to rethink what we're having for breakfast

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 29, 2021 · 2m

In the never ending battle of what we can and can’t eat, the one consistent evil these days appears to be sugar.

And now a new study published by Frontiers in Neuroscience says ‘children who consume too much sugar could be at greater risk of becoming obese, hyperactive, and cognitively impaired as adults’.

Cognitively impaired, that's serious.

So just how much sugar are we eating?

According to the study, children and adults in more than 60 countries have a diet consisting of more than four times the sugar recommended by the WHO. So the WHO recommends 25 grams a day, most of us are consuming…