For all you salt junkies out there, if your dinner last night was missing some zing a newly developed spoon studded with electrodes could help. The spoon creates tastes on your tongue with a pulse of electricity. It has been noted that the spoon may add some extra flavour for people who should not eat certain foods. The… Read More
Research Paper Title A Reappraisal of the Quantitative Relationship between Sugar Intake and Dental Caries: the Need for New Criteria for Developing Goals for Sugar Intake. Background There is a clear relation between sugars and caries. However, no analysis has yet been made of the lifetime burden of caries induced by sugar to see whether… Read More
Research Paper Title Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults. Background Epidemiology studies have suggested that higher intake of added sugar is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Few prospective studies have examined the association of added sugar intake with CVD mortality. Objective To examine time trends of added sugar consumption… Read More
An interesting programme to see how a high fat diet compared to a high sugar diet. I did not think that both would lose weight, intuitively you would expect the high fat diet to gain weight. However, both twins lost weight, although crucially it was a mixture of lean mass (LM) and fat mass (FM).… Read More
There are some amongst you who believe that adding sugar to tea and coffee does not influence the risk of type 2 diabetes. However, a large US study conducted over 24 years proves this is wrong. Irrespective of the coffeine content in hot drinks, it is the sugar intake that counts. But coffee intake – whether caffeinated… Read More
Accumulating evidence points towards a role for sugar and other refined carbohydrates in the development of overweight. Research suggests that sugar increases bodyweight mainly by promoting overconsumption of energy (although the effects of sugar on body fatness independent of changes in weight could not be assessed). This, and other evidence, suggests that sugar intake should… Read More
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