What's So Bad About Sweets?
For this week's food segment, we take our inspiration from proposed sales taxes on sweets that are sweeping the nation — from California to Mississippi and New York. Legislators, government...
View ArticleSugar: Delicious and Deadly?
Is sugar toxic? A 90 minute YouTube video of pediatrics professor Robert Lustig trying to answer the question has counted 800,000 hits. The New York Times has an interesting piece in the magazine...
View ArticleNew York City Plans a Ban of Oversized Sugary Drinks
New York City plans to ban the sale of large sugary drinks, announced Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday. The ban, which aims to fight obesity, would impose a 16-ounce limit on the size of sweetened...
View ArticleSugar Lobby Scores Sweet Deals by Souring Government Research
An archive of documents that date back to the 1950s reveals the sugar industry's powerful influence over the U.S. government's research on dental care.A team of researchers at the University of...
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Confession of a Sugar Scammer
Dana sent this post to Your Uncommon Economic Indicators. We can only hope she feels better getting the news off her chest, but we have to wonder: is it really helping anyone through this recession to...
View ArticleMan Eats Sugar: Health Department's Latest Grossed-Straight Video
The people who brought New York the arresting images of a woman whose fingers were amputated because of a crippling nicotine addiction and the folks who showed how effortlessly soda turns into fat have...
View ArticleA Spoonful of Sugar – and Then Some
A new public service ad by the city Health Department shows that drinking just a few sodas a day is like eating more than 90 packets of sugar. It’s part of the city’s “Pouring on the Pounds” campaign,...
View ArticleCravings Switcheroo
July 8, 2011 —I am on Day 20 of my 21-Day detox under the Clean Program. I'm almost done, but I feel like I'm just starting. I realize I haven't allowed myself to learn about why I eat when I eat.I've...
View ArticleAmy Eddings' Food for Thought: 'Chocolate-Free' Doesn't Have to Mean...
I've kicked the sugar habit for the past 24 days now, as part of a detox that was supposed to last just 21 days. I'm feeling light on my feet and healthy, I've lost seven pounds, my skin and eyes are...
View ArticleQueens Sweets Shops Do Big Business During Diwali
The houses of many New Yorkers of South Asian descent will be lit up with colorful lanterns this week for the Festival of the Lights. During the Diwali holiday, which is observed by Hindus, Sikhs and...
View ArticleRobert Lustig
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco, studied brain tumors in children and began to see a connection between sugar and childhood medical problems, addiction, and lethargy....
View ArticleNot Sweet on Sugar
Robert Lustig, pediatric endocrinologist and obesity expert, author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, offers his take on the link between sugar and...
View ArticleSocial Responses: What's Your Sugar Policy?
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View ArticleMichael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Pulitzer Prize–winning The New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moss describes the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. In Salt Sugar Fat: How the...
View ArticleCut Sugar and Processed Food and Cut Obesity and Disease
Dr. Robert Lustig argues that the increased sugar in our diets has led to the pandemic of chronic disease and obesity over the last 30 years. His new book, The Fat Chance Cookbook, the follow-up to Fat...
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Last Chance Foods: The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup
If you’ve ever flipped over packaged food and checked for high fructose corn syrup in the ingredient list, there’s something you should know: “Experts… say that when it comes to calories and nutrition,...
View Article"Fed Up" Shows That Sugar Makes People Fat and Sick
Producer Laurie David talks about the documentary “Fed Up,” which upends the conventional wisdom of why we gain weight and how to lose it. The film unearths the dirty little secret your favorite brands...
View ArticleState of the Re:Union: Hawai'i: The Legacy of Sugar
For many Americans, Hawai'i is a tropical playground, the place of surf, sun and dream vacations. Behind the tourist façade, though, is one of the most unique multicultural states in the nation, one...
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New dietary guidelines come down hard on added sugars
The Obama administration released new dietary guidelines Thursday that encouraged Americans to limit their added sugar intake to about 200 calories a day, the equivalent of the amount in one 16-ounce...
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U.S. revises dietary advice on sugar, cholesterol and red meat
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