This week, the American Heart Association (AHA) finally weighed in on sugar in its scientific statement, "a worldwide pandemic of obesity and cardiovascular disease have heightened concerns about the adverse effects of excessive consumption of sugars."
While teens (14 to 18 year olds) had the highest sugar intake at more than 34 teaspoons a day, we're not just talking about kids here. The national average is more than 22 teaspoons a day!
Over the past 30 years, the average American has added between 150 to 300 more calories to their daily diet, much… Continue reading Categories
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August 28th, 2009
Cut Sweets to Protect Your Heart.
This week, the American Heart Association (AHA) finally weighed in on sugar in its scientific statement, "a worldwide pandemic of obesity and cardiovascular disease have heightened concerns about the adverse effects of excessive consumption of sugars."
While teens (14 to 18 year olds) had the highest sugar intake at more than 34 teaspoons a day, we're not just talking about kids here. The national average is more than 22 teaspoons a day!
Over the past 30 years, the average American has added between 150 to 300 more calories to their daily diet, much… Continue reading
This week, the American Heart Association (AHA) finally weighed in on sugar in its scientific statement, "a worldwide pandemic of obesity and cardiovascular disease have heightened concerns about the adverse effects of excessive consumption of sugars."
While teens (14 to 18 year olds) had the highest sugar intake at more than 34 teaspoons a day, we're not just talking about kids here. The national average is more than 22 teaspoons a day!
Over the past 30 years, the average American has added between 150 to 300 more calories to their daily diet, much… Continue reading What Are We Feeding Our Kids?
February 9th, 2009What are we feeding our kids? It was bad enough to know that many popular children's foods are loaded with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), now we find out that the HFCS is contaminated with the toxic metal mercury. Two studies were in the news recently. The first described in the January 2009 issue of Environmental Health found mercury in nearly 50% of samples of HFCS that was tested. A second study found mercury in almost one-third of food and beverage products tested. This study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) investigated 55 of the most popular
Visionary, health guru, diet/detox expert, author, spokesperson, role model, and natural foods icon, Ann Louise Gittleman has always been a trendsetter. 
