Like many great challenges of the 21st century, the science identifying the problems with sugar seems clear. What’s lacking is the will to address them.
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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s campaign to introduce a sugar tax on fizzy drinks and snacks has been gaining momentum. Oliver has a history of trying to persuade the British public to eat more healthily…
Researchers have found that cutting sugar out of kids’ diets can improve their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of metabolic health.
Behind the scenes of your mid-morning treat is a fierce legal battle to protect market share and profits.
Eating less sugar isn’t enough to stop glucose-hungry cancer cells but new research points the way to how we might starve them to death.
A new survey shows that we’re healthier than we give ourselves credit for. But could our pessimistic perceptions actually be bad for us?
Are you a “carb craver” or “chocaholic”? We often use language associated with addiction to describe our relationships with food. But is it really possible to be addicted to certain types of food?
We’re told to breakfast like kings but is the first meal of the day really one for champions, or chumps who’ve been taken in by the marketing of ready-to-eat cereal manufacturers?
Crusaders have been warning about the evil effects of sugar for hundreds of years,
with no positive effect on our health.
The former foreign secretary may have over-egged the pudding when talking up his influence on EU policy.
Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital…
Back in 2012 the Which? Breakfast Cereal Report identified worryingly high amounts of sugar in 50 of the most popular breakfast cereals. Three years later and a new survey by campaign group Action On Sugar…
There’s a milk revolution going on in supermarkets and it’s showing no sign of retreat. Where formerly we might have had a simple choice between cow milk and soy milk, with a few other niche products available…
The Eatwell plate is the UK government’s official food guide about which foods we should eat to achieve a healthy diet. It is essentially a pie-chart depicting the recommended intakes of five specified…
Coca Cola has begun carefully rolling out its green-labelled “Life” brand, filling its iconic hour-glass bottles with a new fizzy drink which has nearly a third fewer calories than Coke Original. It is…
A collaboration between historians, text mining, and information visualisation researchers has thrown up new insight into the hunger for sugar, coffee and rubber in the 19th century, as well as how fat…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released draft revised guidelines on daily sugar intake for adults and children. But if people are to follow the WHO’s advice, they need to start thinking about…
Forget lemon detox diets and soup fasts, sugar-free was the fad diet choice of 2013. But while it’s wise to limit the foods and drinks you consume that contain added sugars, this doesn’t mean you need…
Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce. It’s a completely unnecessary part of our calorie…
People have been eating sweet foods for eons. Fruit (fructose), milk (lactose), cane (sucrose), and honey (fructose and glucose) provide us with energy for growth and development. But in these days, we…
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Associate Professor in Biology and Biomedical Science, Aston University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Accredited Practising Dietitian; Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Richmond
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Chris Forbes-Ewan is a Friend of The Conversation.
Retired nutritionist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
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Associate Professor of Health and Wellness Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Clinical Endocrinologist & Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
