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- Cut Back On Sugar-sweetened Beverages, Eat Natural Foods And Read Labels To Decrease The Added Sugar In Your Kids' Diet
A greater awareness about added sugars in food products has led many parents to make healthy food swaps for their children, granola bars for cookies, yogurt for ice cream, but what they probably don't realize is that they have likely swapped one source...
- Healthy Food Is Less Expensive Than Junk Food, Study Finds
Though it's widely believed that healthy food is more expensive than junk food, a new government analysis shows that does not have to be the case. "In fact, carrots, onions, pinto beans, lettuce, mashed potatoes, bananas and orange juice are all less...
- Kids Are Still Eating Too Much Sugar, Regardless Of Parents' Income, And They're Getting Most Of It At Home
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News American children's sugar consumption is down, but kids are still eating too much sugar, and they are getting most of it at home. So says a new study from the National Center for Health Statistics, which also...
- Disney Boosts Healthy Nutrition For Kids
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom While The Disney Company has always been linked to children?s entertainment, they?re now taking a bold new step to promote children?s health. All food products advertised on their ABC-TV child-focused TV programs, radio stations,...
- Sloppy Joes And Manwich Facts
Ingredient in Manwich: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Less than 2% of: Salt, Sugar, Dehydrated Onions, Dehydrated Red and Green Bell Peppers, Chile Pepper, Tomato Fiber, Spices, Guar Gum,...
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Australian filmmaker gained 22 pounds eating foods that most parents think are healthy; visited Ky. to see 'Mountain Dew mouth'
An Australian filmmaker, while maintaining his normal caloric intake and eating standard grocery store items, ate the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day for two months and gained 22 pounds, expanded his weight size and developed pre-diabetes, reports The Orange County Register, in a story republished in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Damon Gameau visited rural Kentucky to observe rotten teeth caused by "Mountain Dew Mouth" for the documentary, "That Sugar Film," which is available on videostreaming services.
"I wasn't eating any junk food," Gameau told the Register in a phone interview from Melbourne, Australia. "I was eating these perceived health foods that most parents would give their kids."
The Register notes that hidden sugar, in products like high-fructose corn syrup, has been added to most products since food companies started lowering the fat content in their products.
"Even if you're taking beverages out of the equation, there's more and more sugar creeping into more and more different foods," Michael Goran, director of the University of Southern California's Childhood Obesity Research Center, told the Register.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed changing food labels to include the amount of added sugars, separate from natural sugars, that occur in foods. "Added sugars provide no additional nutrient value, and are often referred to as 'empty calories,'" the agency said in an explanation of the proposal.
Damon Gameau visited rural Kentucky to observe rotten teeth caused by "Mountain Dew Mouth" for the documentary, "That Sugar Film," which is available on videostreaming services.
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The Register notes that hidden sugar, in products like high-fructose corn syrup, has been added to most products since food companies started lowering the fat content in their products.
"Even if you're taking beverages out of the equation, there's more and more sugar creeping into more and more different foods," Michael Goran, director of the University of Southern California's Childhood Obesity Research Center, told the Register.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed changing food labels to include the amount of added sugars, separate from natural sugars, that occur in foods. "Added sugars provide no additional nutrient value, and are often referred to as 'empty calories,'" the agency said in an explanation of the proposal.
- Cut Back On Sugar-sweetened Beverages, Eat Natural Foods And Read Labels To Decrease The Added Sugar In Your Kids' Diet
A greater awareness about added sugars in food products has led many parents to make healthy food swaps for their children, granola bars for cookies, yogurt for ice cream, but what they probably don't realize is that they have likely swapped one source...
- Healthy Food Is Less Expensive Than Junk Food, Study Finds
Though it's widely believed that healthy food is more expensive than junk food, a new government analysis shows that does not have to be the case. "In fact, carrots, onions, pinto beans, lettuce, mashed potatoes, bananas and orange juice are all less...
- Kids Are Still Eating Too Much Sugar, Regardless Of Parents' Income, And They're Getting Most Of It At Home
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News American children's sugar consumption is down, but kids are still eating too much sugar, and they are getting most of it at home. So says a new study from the National Center for Health Statistics, which also...
- Disney Boosts Healthy Nutrition For Kids
By Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom While The Disney Company has always been linked to children?s entertainment, they?re now taking a bold new step to promote children?s health. All food products advertised on their ABC-TV child-focused TV programs, radio stations,...
- Sloppy Joes And Manwich Facts
Ingredient in Manwich: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Less than 2% of: Salt, Sugar, Dehydrated Onions, Dehydrated Red and Green Bell Peppers, Chile Pepper, Tomato Fiber, Spices, Guar Gum,...