141 children,some as young as one year old, are admitted to hospital every day to have rotten teeth pulled A child has a rotten tooth pulled out in hospital every 10 minutes, and Public Health England (PHE) has said,appealing to parents at the launch of the governments sugar tax to switch their children’s drinks to mostly milk and water.
Sugar-sweetened soft drinks are the main source of the sugar that children consume. While the levy on tall-sugar drinks is a response to the obesity crisis – 20% of children in the final year of primary school in England are now obese – there is enormous concern about children’s teeth as well.
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Source: guardian.co.uk