Tag: sugar and health
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Why It’s Time for Americans to Cut Back on Candy
Editor’s Note: Yes, soda consumption is declining in America and the soda industry has taken a hit, which is good news for the health of Americans. But people eat lots of sugar in the form of candy, especially on certain holidays, and this trend continues to rise. So what can be done to get people to…
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Why ‘Big Sugar’ Is As Hazardous As ‘Big Tobacco’
By Susan Peirce Thompson Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published papers revealing that, in 1965, the sugar industry paid three scientists from Harvard to draw attention away from the connection between sugar and heart disease and focus instead on fat. In their findings, they relegated sugar to a problem for the…
