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Sugar: A Sweetener Gone Sour?
(Uwe Hermann: Flickr) A spoonful of sugar may have helped the medicine go down when Julie Andrews sang the song, but fast forward to the 21st century and sugar isn’t looking so sweet. Today in a...
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What Does the FDA Think About Sugar?
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner. (US Mission Geneva: Flickr) Last week, the big story may have been the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s flip-flopping over funding Planned Parenthood. But coming in a...
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The Numbers on Sugar
(Uwe Hermann: Flickr) Dr. Robert Lustig is perhaps the most outspoken anti-sugar critic out there. His 90 minute video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has netted 3.2 million views on YouTube; his latest book...
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Study: Sugar — Independent of Obesity — Causes Diabetes
For years, doctors have debated sugar’s role in causing diabetes. The prevailing medical opinion has been that eating more sugar means eating more calories, and it’s the resulting weight gain that...
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Sugar Is A Risk for Heart Disease, Too
A 12-ounce can of Coke has 9 teaspoons of sugar. (Kansir/Flickr) By Allison Aubrey, NPR We’ve written lots lately about the potentially addictive qualities of sugar and the public policy efforts to...
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UCSF Initiative Links ‘Sugar Science’ to Your Health
(Getty Images) These days, sugar is pretty close to everywhere in the American diet. You probably know that too much sugar is probably not great for your health. Now, a new initiative from UC San...
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‘Sugar Papers’ Show Industry’s Influence in 1970s Dental Program, Study Says
(Getty Images) Hundreds of pages of newly-found documents show that the sugar industry worked closely with the federal government in the late 1960s and early 1970s to determine a research agenda to...
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Industry Reaction to ‘Sugar Papers’ Mirrors Tobacco in 1990s
(Getty Images) The sugar industry worked to steer federal health research, a report released Monday revealed. As State of Health reported, newly uncovered industry documents dating to the1960s showed...
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New Dietary Guidelines Crack Down On Sugar. But Red Meat Gets A Pass
With January comes lots of diet advice. And today comes the official advice from the U.S. government: The Obama administration has released its much-anticipated update to the Dietary Guidelines. The...
View ArticleSugar Industry Funded 1960s Harvard Research That Blamed Heart Disease on Fat
The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar’s role in heart disease — in part by pointing the finger at fat — as early as the 1960s, according to an analysis of newly uncovered...
View ArticleAmericans Are Consuming Less Sugar With Decline in Soda Intake
Sugar has become the nutritional villain du jour, but just how bad is our addiction? The answer is tricky. Philadelphia recently passed a tax on sugary drinks, several other places have proposed them,...
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