Posts Tagged ‘Sugar’

Read This Before You Drink That Soda

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Read This Before You Drink That SodaEvery so often we are given a piece of health news that is more of painting. A canvas that captures certain health issues over a wide population. Here is another of these interesting and very important studies. It has to do with the mass consumption of sugar, liquid sugar, and what it is doing to us.

Each year, Americans drink nearly 14 billion gallons of soda, fruit punch, sweet tea, … Read More

Could We Soon See a “Fat Tax?”

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Could We Soon See a There are a lot of food cures in the supermarket, but there are far more items that are the opposite of food cures. To tackle the problems of bad food, and the overall obesity issue in the U.S., there is heavy consideration of a “fat tax” or “sin tax” applied to sweets and high-calorie, non-healthy foods.

In fact, Iowa State researchers believe that the fat tax is not the best … Read More