Sugar Overload at Retail Checkouts
Today, the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a new study on retail stores’ promotion of sugar, candy, soda, and other unhealthy foods at checkout. Food marketing isn’t only advertising: product placement at checkout is a common and powerful tool the food industry uses to manipulate us to buy and eat more calories. […]
What sugars should I avoid?
Do you want to know how much you need to limit your intake of sugar each day, for your better health? How to eat right by knowing – with candid and reliable information – the types of beverages you should avoid or limit each day, so you are empowered to improve your overall health? For […]
Sugar in Food: More than Empty Calories
Studies demonstrate that the large amounts of added sugars—including cane and beet sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, plain corn syrup, and dextrose—in our diets are harming much more than our teeth. According to estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average person takes in almost 400 calories’ worth of refined sugars a day, and many […]
Are Weight and Inflammation Linked? – PART 1
There is a lot of evidence linking inflammation to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Inflammation may be the single-most important mechanism driving the diabesity epidemic. An internet search for “inflammation diabetes obesity” turns up more than 1,800 articles. The association between these conditions has been known for decades. In fact, more than 100 years ago […]
Your Brain’s Silent Killer – Sugar
David Perlmutter, M.D., F.A.C.N., is a board-certified neurologist and fellow of the American College of Nutrition and author of Grain Brain. Dr. Perlmutter aims to expose the surprising truth about wheat, carbs, and sugar – your brain’s silent killers. Inflammation, is a cornerstone mechanism related to progressive destruction that occurs in the brain as we […]
Is Diet Soda Dangerous?
Do you think diet sodas are dangerous? In a new study done over ten years and sampling 60,000 women, it was shown that women who drink two or more diet drinks a day have much higher cardiovascular disease rates and are more likely to die from the disease. In the largest study done of it’s […]
Got Sugar Cravings?
Your endless battle with dieting, sugar cravings and low self esteem will improve when you understand the link between low serotonin and sugar cravings. Blood sugar levels have a profound effect on certain brain chemicals and visa versa. One of these chemicals, serotonin, is becoming better known to the public because of Prozac, the anti […]
A National Soda Tax
Rosa DeLauro, the 12-term congresswoman from New Haven, will be introducing a bill in the House of Representatives that would require a national tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. The SWEET ACT (as she’s calling it) would amend the I.R.S. code and charge a penny per teaspoon of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup or other caloric sweeteners — […]
Calories Are Not Equal
Remember when the standard diet advice was a simple equation about calories in and calories out? In fact the equation was simplified down to eating less and exercising more. When I was writing my book, Is Your Lifestyle Killing You?, I received some “advice” that talking about food addiction and emotional eating was not part […]