High added sugar intake ‘increases CVD mortality’
New research recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that individuals who consume high amounts of added sugar in their diet may be at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease.According to the Harvard School of Public Health, the average American consumes around 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day – the equivalent to an extra 350 calories.
February 4, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: average, diet, equivalent, harvard, high-amounts, increased-risk, journal, nutrition, the-journal
Smart and personal: dietary advice
Tailoring people’s diet to optimise their health and minimise their risk of disease, is a new scientific approach called personalised nutrition.
February 4, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: approach, approach-called, before-being, called-food4me, health, new-scientific, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, requires-testing, research-project, risk, the-era
Researchers find no reason to replace fructose with glucose
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose in commercially prepared foods.The findings, published in the February edition of Current Opinion in Lipidology, show that when portion sizes and calories are the same, fructose does not cause any more harm than glucose.
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