Is Sugar the New Tobacco?

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Here’s some exciting news about the amount of hidden sugar in our food and drink that is the source of many health problems: a new global campaign based in England has been launched to alert consumers to the startlingly high sugar content of processed foods and drinks and to persuade the food industry to reduce […]

Can Halloween Be Healthy?

  Whether you’re into dressing up like witches and goblins and going door-to-door asking for a treat, October 31st is around the corner. Halloween is widely celebrated in the U.S. In fact, Americans purchase over 600 million pounds of candy in anticipation of trick or treaters. This is a total of nearly $2billion! This is […]

Big, Bad News About Sugar

I’ve blogged about sugar a number of times and normally wouldn’t return to a subject as much, but the news about sugar consumption in the U.S. is so scary that I had to say something. The amount of added sugar consumed by adults in this country has led to a frightening increase in the rate […]