Ten Surprising Facts About
Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids

1. Kids who survive mainly on starches, snack foods, junk food, and sweets do NOT "naturally" outgrow it.
   (page 41*)
   
2. Low-fat foods that are often high in carbos - especially simple sugars - can be a major step in the wrong direction for the carbohydrate-addicted kid.
   (page 266*)
    
3. For many kids, lack of attention or motivation, learning problems, and mood swings are powerful, vital sings of low-blood-sugar levels.
   (page 63*)
   
4. Being slim does not indicate that a youngster is addiction-free.
   (page 87*)
   
5. Carbohydrate addiction is often a family; in some causes, however, it may "skip" many family members.
   (page 77*)
   
6. While a preference for sweets or starchy foods may be natural, an intense or repeating craving for these foods is not.
   (page 40*)
   
7. Intense and recurring cravings are themselves signs that a physical imbalance may exist and that it must be corrected.
   (page 46*)
   
8. Sugar highs and sugar lows may literally be running and ruining your youngster's life.
   (page 119*)
   
9. The human body was not designed to digest fruit juice without the pulp or to consume artificial sweeteners or soda or...candy!
   (page 195*)
   
10. Carbohydrate addiction literally feeds itself.
    (page 70*)

*page numbers indicate where details may be found in the Hellers' book for parents of carbohydrate-addicted children and teens, Carbohydrate-Addicted Kids.