Tag: sugar
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Researchers Suggest Fructose Tricks Brain into Eating More
A recent study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has allegedly suggested that compared with glucose consumption, fructose consumption resulted “in a distinct pattern” of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in brain regions linked to appetite and reward pathways, and “a smaller increase in systemic glucose, insulin, and glucagon-like polypeptide 1 levels.” Kathleen Page, et al., “Effects…
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Research Examines Role of High-Sugar Diet in Tumor Growth
A recent study has purportedly found that “high levels of glucose in the diet of mice with cancer is linked to increased expression of mutant p53 genes,” raising questions about the effect of a high-sugar diet on tumor growth. Olga Catalina Rodriguez, et al., “Dietary downregulation of mutant p53 levels via glucose restriction: Mechanisms and…
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Soft-Drink Tax Rejected in Ireland
The Irish food and drink industry has reportedly rejected government proposals to impose a sugar tax on soft or “fizzy” drinks, calling the tax a “discriminatory” measure that “would have no health benefits and would further hit already hard-pressed Irish consumers.” Commenting on the issue, Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) cited the “fat tax”…
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Danes Welcome Decision to Reject Fat and Sugar Tax
Danish lawmakers have killed a controversial “fat tax” one year after its implementation, finding that the tax’s negative effect on the economy and small businesses far outweighed any health benefits. According to news sources, nations such as Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have held up the tax, which applies to foods containing more than…
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CRA Uses Mother Jones Exposé in Its Fight Against Big Sugar
In a move that Mother Jones magazine calls “surreal,” The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has issued a press release using the magazine’s recently published exposé “Big Sugar’s Sweet Lies” as a “cudgel” in CRA’s battle with the sugar industry. The exposé outlines the alleged decades-long efforts by the U.S. sugar industry to influence the debate…
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Mother Jones Provides Public Access to Sugar Industry Documents
Following publication of an article titled “Sweet Little Lies,” Mother Jones magazine has made available online the documents underlying the authors’ assertions of sugar-industry influence over government dietary policy and scientific health effects research. Additional details about the article appear in Issue 459 of this Update. Among the documents is one from 1942 that purportedly…
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Critics Sour on USDA’s Latest Sugar Consumption Data
Nutritionists and consumer groups have reportedly criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for reducing its per capita sugar consumption estimate from approximately 100 pounds per year to 76.7 pounds per year. According to an October 26, 2012, New York Times article, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) Executive Director Michael Jacobson “stumbled…
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Gary Taubes & Cristin Kearns Couzens, “Sweet Little Lies,” Mother Jones, November/December 2012
Based on hundreds of internal industry documents, this article outlines the alleged decades-long effort by sugar-producing interests to influence the scientific debate about the purported health effects of sugar. According to the authors, the memos, letters and company board reports “show how Big Sugar used Big Tobacco-style tactics to ensure that government agencies would dismiss…