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Sunday, September, 07, 2008

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Stevia Becomes Truvia

Today we know the name of a previously unheard of sweetener, named Truvia. It's pronounced Tru-VEE-a and promises to have a pronounced effect on the choice of sweeteners that many people use.   It's non-caloric and natural. It will be big because the big boys, Cargill and The Coca-Cola Company, are behind it. It's especially big news for... Read moreChevron

The Carbohydrate Brain Fuel Myth

We distort knowledge faster than things. Some things are so easy to assemble that "even a child can do it" in outer space. But even children know that information disassembles all too readily.Children learn by playing the game of telephone that information gets garbled as it gets passed along. Too bad that medical writers don't know that basic... Read moreChevron

Drinking Calories Debated

The debate on whether the calories that people with or without diabetes drink help to make us feel full isn't over. But the evidence that they don't is mounting. My preliminary article, "Drinking Calories," appeared here last September. At that time I reported on the finding of obesity researcher Barbara Rolls. “Calorie intake increased... Read moreChevron

King Corn

Our national obesity epidemic didn't just happen. The people who study the statistics agree with Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School that before the early 1970s, the prevalence of obesity was relatively constant in the United States. As he told the 63rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association... Read moreChevron

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