The average American woman eats 70 percent of her body weight in added sugar each year. How much is too much and what effect does it have on your body? Sugar is the James Bond of food: It has code names, appears where you least expect it and leaves a trail of destruction in its [...]
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Oh delicious sugar, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… If we’re counting the ways, we may need to make a separate list for the health evils that sugar consumption induces. The latest? Sugar has been linked to increased cholesterol levels. A new study analyzed data from 6,113 respondents in the long-term National Health and Nutrition [...]
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This century’s version of “real men don’t eat quiche” might turn out to be “real men don’t eat sugar”… based on a recent study in which testosterone levels were found to plunge after men consumed sugar. Researchers at the Harvard Reproductive Endocrine Sciences Center and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston gave a glucose tolerance test [...]
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There’s just nothing to be gained from drinking soda. Think about it — people don’t hesitate to drink what is basically a bubbly brew of water, sugar (mainly high fructose corn syrup or HFCS), food coloring and assorted chemicals, packed with calories and lacking in nutritional value. Carbonated soft drinks are the single largest source [...]
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Pick your poison, as they say. Whether you eat sweet treats made with sugar or with cheap and ever-present high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), the result remains the same — it’s unhealthy. This was confirmed for me when I asked for expert guidance on the relative merits of “natural” sugar versus “unnatural” HFCS, having noticed the [...]
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