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Added Sugar

WATCH: How Much Sugar Is Really In Your Food?

Posted 04.08.2013 | Healthy Living

Sugar in food isn't always obvious. When you're eating savory items, for example, you don't necessarily expect much sweetener in the ingredients. So o...

Is Your Soda Killing You? Why Mayor Bloomberg Got It Right

Adam Bosworth | Posted 05.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Adam Bosworth

Mary Poppins may have had the best intentions in mind, but if "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down," the new mantra is "no sodas today keeps the doctor away."

Sweet Nothings

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 05.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Michael F. Jacobson

The time has come for the Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate the safety of sugary drinks. That's what the Center for Science in the Public Interest, several dozen nutrition experts, seven local health departments, and 15 nonprofit organizations have asked the FDA to do.

Meredith Melnick

Does Too Much Sugar Cause Type 2 Diabetes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Meredith Melnick | Posted 03.01.2013 | Healthy Living

Dr. Robert Lustig is the anti-sugar man. In his popular YouTube lecture, ...

Sugar By Any Other Name: How The Sweet Stuff Hides In Your Food

The Huffington Post | Meredith Melnick | Posted 09.13.2012 | Healthy Living

If you keep up with health news, you probably know to look out for added sugar in your diet -- a major culprit in the growing rates of obesity, diabet...

CDC Report: Kids Are Consuming Too Much Added Sugar, Mostly From Food

Posted 03.01.2012 | Healthy Living

The good news? Children have cut down on the amount of added sugar they eat, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

Are Our Kids' Diets Too Sweet?

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 12.27.2011 | Parents
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

It's hard to find a child who doesn't love sugary foods, and chances are that the processed or packaged food your child eats has some amount of added sugar. Research suggests that this trend has spiraled out of control.