Switching food brands to make kid's diet healthier

Everyone knows that what you ate as a child influences the way you eat now.
Serving ready-made foods like boxed cereal or canned pasta has become not just easier, but necessary for some that are working too much to be cooking from scratch.
The idea here is that keeping the bloodsugar on a nice even keel all day long provides optimal growing conditions for children, and reduces the chance for diabetes later in life.
Some labels will show products high in carbohydrates,but low in protein. Others high in fat and calories.
How do we compare brands to make better choices?
The key to better blood sugar management is following a diabetic diet which is excellent for children.
Its excellent for everyone.
Energy for body and brain growth is always available this way.
The diet is keeping any and all meals aprox.:
30% protein (lean meats,fish) 30% good fat(poly,monounsaturated) 40% healthy carbohydrate full of fiber (fruits,vegies,whole grains)
Reading the nutrition facts on the label of spagetti-os will help you decide whether to add another source of fat or protein. Maybe beefaroni is closer to this formula. You can do the same comparisons with cereals, looking for the brands that have higher fiber,higher vitamin amounts. If the kids like Apple Jacks and Honeynut Cherios, reading this label will tell you to opt for the Cherios.
The next important thing to read on labels is trans-fat content.
If it claims zero trans-fat,read the ingredience.If you read "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" , then you are feeding your children poison.
Dorland's Medical Dictionary defines "poison" as "any substance which, when relatively small amounts are ingested ... has chemical action that may cause damage to structure or disturbance of function, producing symptomatology, illness, or death."
Partially hydrogenated oils do not exist in nature. Partially hydrogenated fats and oils are processed versions of naturally occurring fats and oils.
Trans fats interfere with important, normal functions by inhibiting enzymes which are necessary for the body's normal metabolism of fats and they keep doing it for a long time.
For example,when you eat normal fats, the body metabolizes half of them in 18 days. When you eat trans fats the body requires 51 days to metabolize half of them. This means that half of the trans fats you eat today will still be inhibiting essential enzyme systems in your body 51 days from now.
Lets give our children the better choices.