Is sugar our nutritional enemy? New book claims it is
For about a decade as the century started, more and more Americans appeared to obey the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s advice to eat less sugar. But that trend of improvement...
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For about a decade as the century started, more and more Americans appeared to obey the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s advice to eat less sugar. But that trend of improvement...
Illustration by superanimalswallpapers.blogspot.com Drinking a can of sugar-sweetened beverage a day increases your risk of developing pre-diabetes by 46 percent, according to a recent study. The study by the Jean...
Many of us constantly sip on a soft drink, especially in Kentucky, but the habit could be ruining our teeth. Most soft drinks have sugar, acid or both and repeated...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Children and teens should consume no more than six teaspoons of added sugars a day and drink no more than one 8-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage...
An Australian filmmaker, while maintaining his normal caloric intake and eating standard grocery store items, ate the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day for two months and gained...
A greater awareness about added sugars in food products has led many parents to make healthy food swaps for their children, granola bars for cookies, yogurt for ice cream, but...
The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services have released proposed 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines, released every five years, “provide authoritative advice about consuming...
Should soda and other sugary drinks be taxed to fund school nutrition and physical activity programs? Kentucky adults are almost evenly divided on the issue, but the majority of them...
A new website called SugarScience is now available to help consumers understand the health dangers of sugar in our lives, Lisa Aliferis reports for NPR. This University of California, San...