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Sweet drinks, including all fruit juices, cordials, soft drinks, sports drinks and flavoured milks, can cause tooth decay.

Tips to reduce sweet drinks

• Only give sweet drinks at meal times.
• Use an extra small cup and fill with lots of ice.
• Dilute juice and cordial with extra water.
• Have a jug of tap water available at meal and play times.
• Take a bottle of tap water when you leave the house to avoid buying drinks later.

How to make water more interesting

• Use fun shaped ice cubes.
• Add a thin slice of lemon to ice cubes before freezing.
• Use coloured and spiral straws.
• Decorate the rim of cups with mini ‘cocktail’ umbrellas and slices of fruit.
• Use fun cups such as those you can decorate and colour-in (but never put sweet drinks in the fun cups, save them for water only!)

* Developed by Western Sydney Local Health District. Sponsored by the Centre for Oral Health Strategy NSW