For years, Sophia Pena couldn’t stop thinking about food, making it impossible for her to maintain a healthy weight. Image Provided by Sophia Pena More than half of Americans who are living with obesity or overweight can’t stop thinking about food. Food noise helps explain constant, intrusive thoughts about eating. Experts say there are ways […]
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Here’s How A Colorado Dentist Became Big Sugar’s Worst Nightmare
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, Kearns […]
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Website Explores Sugar’s Effects on Health
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.
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Are Weak Policies on Added Sugars Putting a Generation of Children at Risk?
It’s not exactly breaking news that Americans eat too much sugar. Federal policies are currently falling short in several important ways. And the food industry, which helped to engineer this policy shortfall, is exploiting it with marketing aimed squarely at kids—especially children of color.
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