Nutrition In The News
Nutrition has certainly been in the news recently. Some topics that have been making the headlines: Added Sugar – the Dietary Guidelines for 2010 recommend all of us: Reduce the intake of calories from added sugar. Note it is ADDED sugar and not sugar. Why? Many foods such as fruits have the naturally occurring sugar, fructose. No one is recommending we cut back on fruits because they contain fructose. But we are to cut back on sugar that is added to foods like sucrose, high fructose corn syrup. Added Sugar and Fatal Heart Attacks – The headline read: Sugar is Sweet But Also Deadly , which would attract most peoples’ attention. Much has been written about the negative health consequences of too much added sugar, but deadly? Researchers studied over 30,000 Americans over age 44 and analyzed responses to questions about added sugar in their diets and death. They found too ...