Silencing Inflammation
By now, many recognize the difference between a healthy acute inflammatory response versus an unhealthy persistent one. Acute inflammation is a necessary and vital short-term …
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Sugar Consumption and Cognitive Health
While an occasional sweet treat is a pleasurable experience, daily overindulgence of added sugar is a major contributor to poor dental heath, cardiovascular disease, obesity, …
Sugar Consumption and Cardiovascular Health
For decades the tobacco industry misled consumers by withholding revealing scientific data on the deadly health risks of smoking. Today, the sugar industry is in …
Sugar Consumption and Your Health – Part 1
By Susan Brown Health & Wellness Editor Everyone, it seems, has a natural primeval urge to seek out high energy dense or high calorie foods, …
Our Sugar Obsession
By Jacquie Eubanks BSN, RN Americans are having a deleterious love affair with sugar without even dipping into the sugar bowl. Largely due to the …
Sugar – How Much Is Too Much?
By Jacquie Eubanks BSN, RN Sugar, or sucrose, is a simple carbohydrate that occurs naturally in fruits and vegetables, especially sugar cane and sugar beets. …