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Sugary Drink Ban Tied to Health Improvements at Medical Center
[ad_1] In recent years, hospitals and medical centers across the country have stopped selling sugar-sweetened beverages in an effort to reduce obesity and diabetes. Now a new study carried out at the University of California, San Francisco, has documented the health impact of a soda sales ban on its employees. Ten months after a sales…
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Communications recommendations for sugar-sweetened beverage-free zones
[ad_1] In the ongoing battle against childhood obesity, institutions are increasingly restricting the sale, and even the consumption, of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) on their premises. The campaign, developed by the Healthy Active Arkansas initiative, is being implemented through a unique collaboration. Jenna Davidson, director for the Office of Student Wellness and Development, Alicia Landry, Employee…
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Here’s How A Colorado Dentist Became Big Sugar’s Worst Nightmare
[ad_1] The cardboard box looked unassuming, but as soon as Cristin Kearns opened it, she knew she was onto something juicy. Inside were documents donated to Colorado State University’s library by a corporation that didn’t exist anymore, one whose local beet sugar factories had shut down by the 1980s. Decades after those closures, in 2009,…
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Sweet Tooth? News That's Hard to Live With
[ad_1] Miriam Vos, MD, MSPH, finds that a no-sugar diet changes cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart disease in the kids she treats at her medical center. [ad_2]
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Is Sugar Toxic?
[ad_1] Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, a nutrition scientist, shows in her study that it is possible to increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease in healthy young people simply by feeding them a diet heavy in added sugars for two weeks. [ad_2]
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies
[ad_1] A growing body of research suggests that sugar and its nearly chemically identical cousin, high-fructose corn syrup, may very well cause diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and that these chronic conditions would be far less prevalent if we significantly dialed back our consumption of added sugars. [ad_2]
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It’s the Sugar, Folks
[ad_1] Rob Lustig, MD, MSL, discusses his work on diabetes. Sugar may not be the only problem with the Standard American Diet, but it’s fast becoming clear that it’s the major one. [ad_2]
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Sugar not only makes you fat, it may make you sick
[ad_1] In recent years, sugar – more so than fat – has been receiving the bulk of the blame for our deteriorating health. Most of us know we consume more sugar than we should. Let’s be honest, it’s hard not to. [ad_2]
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Mobilizing Youth to Speak Out on Sugar and Diabetes
[ad_1] The UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations helps combat the rising epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes by empowering youth to change the conversation about the disease and work to change the social and environmental factors that have led to its spread. [ad_2]
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Website Explores Sugar’s Effects on Health
[ad_1] Most people know that too much sugar can be bad for you. But now a dozen scientists at three universities have started a new website called SugarScience.ucsf.edu to educate the public on precisely how too much sugar can make people sick. [ad_2]
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