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1 Is Agave Nectar Healthier Than Sugar?
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2 Sweet and Satisfying Desserts Under 20 Grams of Sugar
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3 Fruits With the Highest and Lowest Sugar Content
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4 Glycemic Index: Where Do Sweeteners Fall?
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5 A Reader Recipe: Grain- and Sugar-Free Cocoa Cakes
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6 Why the Remove Cleanse and Detox Is Worth Doing
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7 Do You Think Sugar Is as Addictive as Drinking or Smoking?
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8 Who You Calling Sugar?
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9 A Daily Look at How Much Fat, Sugar, and Salt You Should Be Eating
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10 Is White Sugar Really THAT Bad For Me?
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11 Healthy Eating Tip: Limit Your Added Sugar Intake to 40 Grams
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12 What Do You Know About Hidden Sugars?
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13 High-Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar
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14 10 Ways to Cut Back on Sugar
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15 How to Reduce Your Sugar and Salt Cravings
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16 Are You Addicted to Sugar?
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17 Smarter Eats: Add Spices to Coffee Instead of Sugar
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18 Nutritional Comparison: 5 Sugar-Free, All-Natural Sodas
There's lots to love about sugar: it makes dessert delicious and fruit flavorful. But eating too much sugar (more than the recommended six teaspoons a day) is bad for more than your waistline. Read on for three important reasons to cut back on sugar. You always want more: It's hard to stop at just one cookie or piece of cake; that's because sugar is addictive. Eating sugar activates feel-good Read more
If you thought a little sugar never hurt anyone, think again. 60 Minutes reported that the average American consumes 130 pounds of sugar a year, and scientists are confirming that this overloaded amount is causing liver damage, heart disease, and cancer. While we are biologically designed to enjoy sweet tastes because they are a sign that a food isn't poisonous, in today's society, most of our Read more
A protein- and fiber-packed breakfast jump-starts your metabolism, providing energy to last the day. But some choices for your morning meal can be loaded with added sugar, causing you to crash. Skip the sweetened cereals and sugary baked goods and opt for these deliciously filling breakfast ideas, all containing under 20 grams of sugar and many naturally sweetened. Nonfat vanilla Chobani Read more
You may think your diet is right on track, but do you know how much fat, sugar, and salt you should be eating on an everyday basis? In honor of National Nutrition Month, we're taking a look at the dietary guidelines for some of the sneakiest health spoilers. Learn the recommended daily intake for fat, sugar, and salt based on a 2,000 calories-per-day diet and try to adjust your habits Read more
Whether you're following the Paleo diet or just looking for a treat that is grain- and sugar-free, you'll love this cocoa cake recipe from reader pure2raw. They posted it in the Healthy Recipes community group. Looking for the easiest cake ever to make? Check out our grain- and sugar-free cocoa cherry cakes! It only requires a few ingredients, too. It will become your new favorite cake recipe! Read more
According to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, sugar is as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco. And just like other legal vices, they think regulators should put restrictions on its sale and availability by taxing any processed foods that have added sugar, including soda, some juices, chocolate milk, and sugared cereal, as well as proposing age limits when it comes to Read more
You know you're getting into the holiday spirit when the movie Elf is on repeat in your DVD player. If this is the case, let's just hope you aren't influenced by Will Ferrell's bad dietary habits, which include copious amounts of candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup! We may not be guzzling down bottles of syrup, but when confronted with tables full of cookies, candies, chocolates, and Read more
From sodas to breakfast cereals loaded with more sugar than a Twinkie, sugar — and large amounts of it — can be found in almost every element of the American diet. Sugary foods raise blood sugar levels, but the levels quickly drop, signaling our brains to crave more sugar. Naturally occurring sugars are much healthier choices since they are found in fruit and dairy products, which also Read more
It's not exactly easy to eat healthy — conscientious eating requires a lot of knowledge about what's in your food, not to mention the need to read labels more carefully than most people do. We should all be mindful of how much fat, salt, sugar, and calories we take in, but it's important to weigh these with your own history and nutrition goals (a recent study, for example, found that too much Read more
We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Health.com here on our site. By Julie Upton, RD I've been reading a lot from both popular press and scientific publications about how certain craveable foods, such as those that include sugar, fat, or a combination of both (e.g. ice cream, chocolate, and most desserts) may cause druglike responses in our brain. Animal-model research shows Read more
