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Studies Determine Sugar, Saccharin More Addictive Than Cocaine
By Jonathan Benson, contributing writer to Natural News Millions of prohibitionist-minded Americans have been exposed as complete hypocrites by research proving that refined sugar is more addictive...
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The Dangers of Sugar: How Sugar Is Killing You and Your Kids
Very recently, an article appeared in Psychology Today debating whether or not sugar caused ADHD in children. The gist of the argument behind this was that some studies have proven that there is a...
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Sugar Isn’t Just Making You Fat—It’s Making You Sick
You never hear anyone say, “I shouldn’t have eaten all those Skittles, they’re totally going straight to my endocrine system.” But based on new evidence from the researchers behind SugarScience.org,...
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Hershey Exploring Removal of Corn Syrup
NEW YORK—Hershey is looking at replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in some of its products with sugar. Will Papa, chief research and development officer at The Hershey Co., told The Associated Press...
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See How Sick Sugar Can Make You When It’s Hidden in So-called Healthy Foods
Maybe you don’t drink soda or munch on doughnuts for breakfast, but thanks to added sugar in seemingly nutritious foods, you might still be doing some damage to your body. That’s what Australian...
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Study: Oreos as Addictive as Cocaine
Have you ever joked that you were addicted to Oreo cookies when you couldn’t have just one? Well, it’s no joke. A study out of Connecticut College found that Oreos are as addictive as cocaine and...
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New Science Website Reveals the Truth About Sugar
Low-fat recommendations have led to a dramatic increase in sugar consumption, and excess sugar is a primary dietary factor in countless chronic disease states, including type 2 diabetes, heart...
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The Bitter Truth About Sugar
Dr. Robert Lustig, a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UC San Francisco, has been on the forefront of the movement to educate people about the health hazards of sugar...
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Why Flour Is Like Sugar
If you think sugar-free cookies, cakes and pastries will help you control diabetes or lose weight, you’ve gotten the wrong message. Flour makes your blood sugar rise almost as much as table sugar. Most...
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Tips for Cutting Sugar From the Diet
The links between sugar consumption and devastating health problems are widely publicized. Not only is it a major player in the realm of weight gain and obesity, as well as a potential component in...
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The Future of Taste Technology
Public health experts want to see a dramatic reduction in sugar and salt consumption. The processed food and beverage industry—by far America’s biggest source of salt and sweet—has been resistant to...
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How Much Sugar Starbucks Actually Pours Into Your Drink
When we think of fattening foods most of us think of fast foods, decadent desserts, fried foods, or TV dinners. We’re far less likely to consider our Starbucks habit as the reason for our spare tire,...
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Indian Vine Slays Sugar
Gymnema sylvestre is the Latin name for a vine native to the forests of southern and central India. The leaves of this herb have been used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for at least 2,000 years. It...
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Sugar-Added Foods Increase Diabetes Risk
Sugar-added to foods, but not in whole fruits, increases risk for diabetes, heart attack and premature death, according to a new summary of animal and human studies, clinical trials in humans and...
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That Sugar Film Shines a Light on the Hidden Sweetness of Food
If you’re someone who likes to buy up big at the candy bar before seeing a film, then a word of warning about That Sugar Film: this story of one man’s 60-day sugar binge is guaranteed to leave your...
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Best Sugar Alternatives: An Infographic
We’ve written about how sugar can seriously ruin your health. From diabetes and obesity to creating cavities and wrinkles, there’s basically nothing good about too much sugar consumption. And it’s easy...
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5 Surprising Sources of Sugar
I stick to a mostly whole foods diet, but when I’m buying something packaged, I have a few very easy rules for reading food labels. These are so simple that you can even teach them to kids: First, I...
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Is Honey Healthier Than Sugar?
Many health writers make the topic of sugar so complicated that nobody can understand it. It’s very simple. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Your body treats the sugar in an apple the same way that it treats...
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The Good and Bad of Xylitol
Nothing exemplifies the promise of having your cake and eating it too quite like sugar substitutes. All the problems associated with sugar (addictive, empty calories that can lead to diabetes, obesity,...
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Good News. Sugar Helps Reduce Stress, Study Finds
Scientists may have found the reason why we consume sugar when we’re stressed out. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis found that those who consumed drinks sweetened with...
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Heart Risks Spike After Two Weeks of Sugary Drinks
Healthy young adults who consumed drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup for just two weeks showed increases in three key risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The results from a recent...
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Foundational Lifestyle Strategies to Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure
According to CDC director Thomas Frieden high blood pressure is public healthy enemy No. 2. The CDC says 36 million people in the U.S. have uncontrolled high blood pressure, and of that number, 14...
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5 Non-Addictive Delicious Desserts
Why postpone true happiness and radiant health? You can have your cake and eat it too. Eating delicious desserts without feeding your sugar addiction is easy–it just involved purchasing the right...
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9 Surprising Foods with More Sugar Than a Krispy Kreme Doughnut
A major new report by Credit Suisse Research Institute explores the impact of sugar and sweeteners on humans’ diets, with some shocking revelations and statistics. Worldwide, the average person...
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How Sugar Messes Up Your Liver and Gives You Diabetes
Modern man is plagued with many diseases that you will not find in some “primitive” populations like modern hunter-gatherers. These include obesity, heart disease, some cancers and last but not least,...
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Does Fructose Lead to Larger, Sicker Hearts?
Fructose drives a molecular mechanism that can lead to cardiac enlargement and heart failure, report researchers. “Walk through any supermarket and take a look at the labels on food products, and...
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The Real Reason We Put Sugar in Coffee
A sweet tooth isn’t the only reason we put a little sugar in coffee or tea. Scientists say sugar has an important effect in reducing bitterness, not just by masking it but by influencing the...
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Soft Drink to Hard Candy: Watch a Soda Turn Into a Lollipop
“After recently hearing a health professional refer to soda as ‘the cigarettes of our generation,’ I decided to do an experiment to show what’s in soft drinks after the water is boiled away—in other...
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Hidden Sugars in 10 Common Foods
Ever wondered why you’re packing on loads of weight, even though you think you’re eating healthfully? The truth is, many foods we perceive to be healthy (thanks to clever marketing, usually) may be far...
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Will Brits Give Up Soda After Jamie Oliver’s Rotten Teeth–Pulling Stunt?
As seen in the clip above, chef Jamie Oliver heads to Saint George’s Hospital in London, where he watches a six-year-old named Mario, who has an affinity for drinking soda, get six teeth pulled. In...
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The Money Spent Selling Sugar to Americans Is Staggering
Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with abandon, all fruits, vegetables, and nuts are considered “specialty crops” by the U.S. Department...
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There’s a New Natural Sugar Substitute…
There’s a new alternative sweetener getting ready to hit the market, and it’s called allulose (also D-Psicose). Under the brand names of Dolcia Prima and AllSweet Low-Calorie Sugar, this sweetener...
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Which Public Policies Would Really Fight Obesity?
If society is serious about curbing obesity, especially in children, then it must adopt policies that confront obesity rates, which are a growing public health concern, argues legal ethics scholar...
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Federal Jury to Settle Bitter Battle Between Sweeteners
LOS ANGELES—Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweeteners that boils down to a mix of science, semantics and marketing. Jurors in the case...
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Sugar Isn’t Just Empty, Fattening Calories—It’s Making Us Sick
Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides. And they are getting diseases that used to be unheard of in children, like Type 2 diabetes and fatty...
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NIH Protects Sugar Industry Over Children’s Teeth
The government has gone to great lengths to downplay the connection between sugar and tooth decay. The result has been more profits for the sugar industry and more cavities for kids. In the 1950s any...
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Sugar, Corn Industries Settle Sweetener Spat; Terms Secret
LOS ANGELES—A bitter billion-dollar battle in the sweetener wars came to an end Friday as sugar processors and the makers of high fructose corn syrup announced a secret out-of-court settlement. The...
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A Cure for Cancer Is Coming
A study from the University of California, San Diego shows that fermentation of sugar takes the least amount of energy for cells to grow and thrive (Nature, December 3, 2015). I think this study shows...
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4 Psychological Tricks to Help Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, millions of people around the world make New Year’s resolutions. And every year, the great majority of us break and abandon those resolutions. Self-control is a major problem for many of...
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People Are Seriously Shocked When They Find Out How Much Sugar Is in a Can of...
Carbonated water, some sort of coloring agent, and high fructose corn syrup. Although consumers of soda can read the typical ingredients listed on the side of a 12-ounce can, the average person might...
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Too Much Sugar? There’s an Enzyme for That
Guilt-free sugary treats may be on the horizon. Scientists at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have discovered an enzyme that can stop the toxic effects of sugar in various...
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Is It Possible to Get 15% of Your Calories From Sugar and Still Be Healthy?
It would be fair to say that most of us lead a life far removed from our hunter-gatherer days. Consequently, studies into remote tribes, and the effect of their diet and foraging behavior, have been...
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Band Chat: Oh Honey on Their First U.S. Headlining Tour
Pop/folk duo Oh Honey is worried about missing their next performance in Denver, a 25-hour drive from Seattle. Exhausted, they stop at a gas station to rest and refuel on gas for their tour bus. They...
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This Startup Modified Sugar to Make the Brain Happy With Less Calories
Ahh, sugar. With just one small bite, it enters our blood stream and rushes the body with pure energy. These days, its common to hear researchers compare sugar’s addictive qualities to those of...
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Are Added Sugars Dangerous?
Consumers have just scored a major victory against the sugar lobby, one that has the potential to reverse decades of debilitating chronic disease trends. For the first time ever, the FDA will require...
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Coke, Pepsi, and the Obesity Time Bomb
A study published in The Lancet in early April reveals a global obesity time bomb. For the first time in history, more of the Earth’s population is obese than underweight. Chronic health problems...
View ArticleIn Response to ‘Coke, Pepsi, and the Obesity Time Bomb’
Dear Editor, Michael Jacobson’s recent opinion piece, “Coke, Pepsi, and the Obesity Time Bomb,” June 29, misleads your readers, suggesting that eliminating a single product from the diet will somehow...
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Swapping Just One Sugary Drink for Water Has Huge Health Benefits: Study
Many factors contribute to obesity and chronic disease, but a lot of evidence points to our love of sugar for failing health and widening waistlines. Sugar intake in the form of sweetened drinks are...
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Strategies to Reduce Your Family’s Sugar Intake
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to health advice in the last decade or so, you’ve likely noticed a dramatic shift from a focus on dietary fat to dietary sugar as the chief culprit in causing...
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