Browsing Tag: Sugar

Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein Wakes Us Up)

“We think we are what we think and see when in truth we are upright bags of tripe.” This is a tragic fact that we spend most our lives trying to forget. Although we like to imagine ourselves as the driver – our consciousness is in full control – that belief is a lovely illusion. In reality, we are mere passengers aboard the body, strapped to a fleshy engine that is driving us.
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So-called fruit snacks full of sugars, partially hydrogenated oil, dyes: class action lawsuit ~ [OP-ED]

Something is mostly missing from Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit by the Foot, and Fruit Gushers, according to a complaint filed today in federal court in California: fruit.
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Is Sugar Toxic?

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.
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Brain aches for food bathed in badness

Foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain's chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat.
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