Continued from Does Sugar Cause Cancer, Part 1 and Does Sugar Cause Cancer, Part 2. How much sugar is okay to eat? How many cigarettes are okay? This may sound like an unfair comparison but it's not. You don't get lung cancer a week after you start smoking or even the next year. It takes ... Read more »
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Does Sugar Cause Cancer? (Part 1)
Does Sugar Cause Cancer? a) yes b) no c) maybe d) read on Answer: (d) read on I recently met a woman, Melanie, who lives in Philly and works with cancer patients in hospice care. She described one man with stage 4 lung cancer who was determined to survive and still had a fighting ... Read more »
Does Sugar Cause Cancer? (Part 2)
Continued from Does Sugar Cause Cancer, Part 1. The answer to the quiz in last week's article is: Yes, added sugar leads to cancer, often at the end of a long, circuitous journey with stops along the way for obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. If sugar is so ... Read more »
Does your breakfast contain more sugar than dessert? How much sugar should your kids be eating?
My kid has a friend who eats whatever he likes for breakfast. What does he like? He likes processed carbs. Tons and tons of them, preferably with lots of processed sugar. Cereal is usually on the breakfast table along with bread and jam, accompanied by orange juice. Many parents are content ... Read more »
Why Sugar Makes You Fat
It doesn’t seem to make sense but sugar--and not fat--puts on the pounds. Sugar makes its way into my diet through the tantalizing delivery vehicle called chocolate. I eat a very healthy, clean diet, but I’m a recovering, backsliding, partially-in-denial, excuse-making, passionate chocoholic, and ... Read more »
What is the Best Secret Sugar Substitute
a) Arsenic b) Saccharin (benzoic sulfimide) c) high fructose corn syrup d) cinnamon e) sand from the Ivory Coast f) calf's blood Well, the first three will eventually kill you, and the last one is not that tasty—except when drizzled on a Starbuck's Pumpkin Latte 😂—so that leaves ... Read more »
What’s for dessert at the Good Food Fighter’s house?
a) McDonald's hydrogenated hot fudge Sundae with carrageenan and polyglycerol esters of fatty acids. b) double fried dough in slimy soybean oil with artificially flavored icing c) chocolate covered crickets rolled into a Twinkie d) GMO sugar cubes dunked in corn syrup and sprinkled ... Read more »
Are you at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes? You might be surprised.
My friend Annie has been struggling with elevated blood glucose (blood sugar) and a multiple serious health conditions. She's been pre-diabetic for years, then had a dangerous spike recently after sugar-bingeing on vacation. She was on the brink of diabetes, so I asked (pleaded with) her to ... Read more »
Sugar Addict Rat
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No Place for Sugar
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What you should really be scared of this Halloween… the Halloween Survival Guide that you didn’t think you needed
Updated for Halloween 2019! See below for revisions, tips, goodies, alerts... Candy. Yes, really—it's poison. But fear not, here's the Halloween Survival Guide that you didn't think you needed. 1. Buy Stuff that is NOT Laced with Toxic Ingredients What's so toxic about cute little nutty ... Read more »
Pocket Food (or How to Wear your Food)
You've got a conference or Trade Show coming up and won't be able to lug around a cooler. How do you keep from eating donuts and Honest (dishonest) Tea? What can you fit in your pocket? Enter the Power Bar. But not just any power bar, because most are no better than a candy bar. Two-by-four ... Read more »