While tromping through my teenage years, I watched my peers obsess about their weight; I watched them weigh themselves daily and shriek if they gained a pound. I read articles about the realities of eating disorders and wondered if my friends had eating disorders. I worried...
Snack Attack Oh, the beloved snack. In my series of posts based on my interview with author of Getting To Yum and French Kids Eat Everything,Karen Le Billon discusses the problem with too many snacks. “In France, it’s one snack per day about two hours before dinner,”...
The World Health Organization caught my attention when it called for feedback in regards to its newly proposed, dietary guidelines in regards to sugar consumption--free sugar to be exact. Free sugar, according to the W.H.O., is categorized as, "monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides...
It amazes me to see sugar as the front cover topic in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic. Yet, I am thrilled to know the word is getting out about sugar. It's the evil white powder dentists have long known about because of the havoc it...