If you’re a parent, you probably fight a daily battle with sugar. Most of us can attest to the noticeable effects of sugar on our kids’ behavior: “bouncing off the walls.” Study after study has demonstrated the negative side of…...
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How much sugar should we be consuming? According to the World Health Organization, we should be consuming no more than 10 percent of our daily calories from added sugar (table sugar and sugars added to packaged foods when processed). The…...
Posted in Brett's Blog, Nutrition Tagged with: diabetic diet, diet food, disaccharides, dried fruit, food, food and drink, grams of sugar, health, healthy food, less sugar, medicine, much sugar, Nutrition, packaged food, soft drink, sucrose, sugar, sugar cereal, sugar table, sweeteners, table sugar
From time to time, a study comes across my desk that validates a long-held belief. This happened this past week. What interested me the most about this study was that it strongly contradicted what the mighty marketing arm of the…...
Our bodies are naturally wired to crave sugar…both for mental reasons and for physical reasons. Physically, our cravings come from a deep ancestral need for micro-nutrients, which are found in fruits. When we crave sugar, we are actually craving the…...
Posted in Brett's Blog, Nutrition Tagged with: addiction, cravings, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, stress management, sugar
Carbonated soft drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet, providing about 7% of our total caloric intake. Adding non-carbonated drinks to this figure, it rises to a whopping 9%. Is it any wonder that obesity…...
Posted in Article, Nutrition Tagged with: Divine Caroline, high fructose corn syrup, Not Just the Kitchen, soda, Soft drinks, sugar
In case you haven’t heard, sugar is quite the bad boy for a healthy diet. Part of the reason for this is because the more sugar you consume, the more you crave it. And while sugar is an ingredient that…...
In the middle of December, the FDA FINALLY approved Rebiana, the best part of the stevia plant, as a safe and natural sweetener. HOORAY. As most of you know, I’m a HUGE fan of stevia, as it is a natural…...
Recently, we have seen a lot of articles and posts on different types of sweeteners, but it can all get a little overwhelming…or at the very least, confusing. I personally believe that the more natural (meaning less processed) the sweetener is, the…...
Posted in Brett's Blog, Eco-Living, Nutrition Tagged with: agave nectar, artificial sweetener, natural, stevia, sugar, sugar substitute
by Brett Blumenthal So we all know that sugar is not the best for our diets. It provides little to no nutritional value, excessive calories and can make our blood sugar sky rocket and quickly crash, leaving us somewhat lethargic…...
Posted in Brett's Blog, Nutrition Tagged with: artificial sweetener, stevia, sugar, sugar substitutes, sweeteners
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