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“The Weight of the Nation”: Documentary Sends the Wrong Message

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This week, a new documentary about the obesity crisis premieres on HBO. It’s called “Weight of the Nation”. And it’s take-home message is wrong, wrong, wrong. You’ll be hearing a lot about this documentary, if you haven’t already. And with good reason. It’s the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the three major public-health institutions [...]

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Study Shows Fast Food Leaves You Depressed

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A new study in the journal Public Health Nutrition showed people who frequent drive-thrus and load their shopping cart with Entenmann’s and Twinkies suffer more depression. The study looked at 8,964 people who had never been diagnosed with depression or taken antidepressants. During the six-month study, 493 of these people were diagnosed with depression or [...]

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Daily Habit Increases Heart Disease Risk By 20%

A new study in the journal Circulation found men who consumed a 12-ounce sugar-sweetened drink every day had a 20% higher risk of heart disease compared to men who didn’t drink them. The study tracked primarily Caucasian middle-aged men, all in healthcare professions, for 22 years. Every two years, these participants completed questionnaires that inquired [...]

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Are You Eating Candy Disguised as Breakfast?

A British study looked at popular breakfast cereals and concluded most of them were so loaded with sugar, they belong in the candy aisle. Of the 50 cereals the study examined, 32 were high in sugar. That included 12 of the 14 cereals aimed at kids. Before you dismiss this as an irrelevant study because [...]

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The Red Meat Scare: What Do We Make Of It?

Over 100 of you wrote to me to ask my opinion of the latest “Red Meat Will Kill You” scare, a study which was published March 12 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and gleefully reported by the mainstream media and commented on by just about everyone on both sides of the red meat controversy. [...]

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Fructose Vindicated for Obesity Epidemic?

Are we unfairly blaming fructose for the obesity epidemic? That’s what researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital suggested in the Annals of Internal Medicine when they reviewed over 40 published fructose studies. In 31 of these studies, people ate the same number of calories as either pure fructose or non-fructose sugar. The fructose group did not [...]

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Dessert With Breakfast Helps You Lose Weight? Hmm…

Will a heaping slice of Entenmann’s cheese Danish with your vegetable omelet help you get lean and sexy? Researchers at Tel Aviv University recently discovered that having dessert with your breakfast could help you lose weight. When you enjoy that chocolate cake in the morning, they argue, your body can burn off the sugar throughout [...]

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Paula Deen and the Lost Teaching Moment

Paula Deen has diabetes. And a terrific opportunity for a “teaching moment” is being lost. In case you’re not familiar with Paula Deen—apparently I’m the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen her show—she’s a famous chef with a hit program on the Food Network, and is known for her rich Southern cooking. She’s [...]

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Cravings: Why They Strike, How to Curb Them

This excellent article by Katherine Kam was originally posted on WebMD. It’s reproduced here in its entirety. A big thanks to Ms. Kam and to WebMD for letting us share this with you. Almost everyone has hankered after potato chips, ice cream, chocolate, or another beckoning treat. But why? And what do you do when [...]

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Toxins Made From Sugar Linked to Aging and Diabetes

Toxins Made From Sugar by Craig Weatherby (The following is a guest article from health reporter Craig Weatherby, who writes the Vital Choice newsletter. Vital Choice is our favorite source for the highest quality wild salmon in the world. Check them out here.) Cooking foods that contain sugars and protein at high temperatures results in [...]

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Too Much Sugar Increases Risk for Heart Disease

Adults who consume high levels of sugar have significantly elevated levels of several risk factors for heart disease, according to a new study by a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in Japan. The study results suggest that U.S. dietary guidelines for sugar may be lax and should be reconsidered, the [...]

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Book Review: “Sugar Nation”

As you know, I don’t often do book reviews, but once in a while a book comes along that is so important that I just have to tell you about it. Gary Taube’s brilliant, Why We Get Fat was one such book. The one I’m about to discuss- Sugar Nation—is another. There have been a [...]

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