Dec 10 2018
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Surveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their…
Jun 13 2017
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The battle for children’s taste buds is old news now, but I’ll recap it for you. Kids like sugar. Companies know…
Mar 30 2017
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If you thought Cadbury Creme Eggs were humanity’s greatest confectionery creation, Alex O’Brien Yeatts, a baking and…
May 26 2016
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You may have noticed a subtle change on your food ingredients list. Big, bad sugar is being replaced by the fresher,…
May 9 2016
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Scientists assumed there is just a single type of taste receptor on the tongue responsible for our perception of…
Apr 29 2016
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Mar 24 2016
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El Niño is almost over, but the wreckage of things it knocked over in its wake continues—and one of those things is…
Mar 9 2016
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Americans are used to breaking down their foods into different groups—and to plenty of different opinions about just…
Mar 3 2016
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Jan 27 2016
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Jan 7 2016
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This morning, the USDA and the Department of Health and Human services finally issued a new set of American dietary…
Dec 22 2015
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Sep 30 2015
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One present to the King of Prussia launched an industry that, if current experts are to be believed, will kill us…
Jul 31 2015
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Jul 27 2015
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We know that, scientifically speaking, brown sugar makes better song lyrics than white sugar, but what is the actual…
Jun 30 2015
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Sugary drinks kill 184,000 people each year through diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, according to new research from Tufts University. “It should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet,” notes lead researcher Dariush Mozaffarian, who says these drinks have…
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Apr 17 2015
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Why does everything have sugar in it? It isn't just in there because it tastes good. If that were all sugar had to…
Mar 11 2015
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A recent analysis of nearly 320 internal sugar industry documents from 1959 to 1971 shows how the industry sought to…
Dec 19 2014
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Nov 20 2014
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Sugary drinks are now the number one source of junk-food calories for kids, says a new report from Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity on the amount and kinds of sugary drinks being knocked back today. While soda consumption has fallen a bit, energy drinks just keep on picking up.