sugar
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Getting sugar out of schools means getting it out of milk too, says head of Harvard nutrition
Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, weighs in on the dairy industry's campaign to keep offering kids chocolate milk, despite the array of sugar-related health problems America is facing.
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New report challenges whether chocolate milk is better than no milk in schools
Few have dared to question the dairy industry's position that children need calcium and vitamin D however they can get it, even if it comes from sweetened flavored milk. A landmark recent study poses the first serious challenge to that idea.
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In defense of candy
Americans don't eat too much candy. Our problem is that we consume too much candy masquerading as real food and beverages.
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What a 'sweet surprise'! HFCS contains more fructose than believed
A new study shows that assumptions about fructose/glucose ratios in high-fructose corn syrup have been way off. And since fructose is demonstrably worse for us than glucose, this could explain a lot.
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Obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research post
Obama has nominated Catherine Woteki, an exec from the Mars candy corporation, to direct the U.S. government's entire agricultural research budget.
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Help the Corn Refiners rename high-fructose corn syrup
The Corn Refiners Association announced it was changing high-fructose corn syrup's name to "corn sugar" -- but oops! that's already a regulated term. Wanna give these guys a Gristy hand?
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A new front in the chocolate-milk wars
A Washington Post columnist is worried -- along with the dairy industry -- that kids won't drink milk at all if they can't have chocolate or strawberry. What harm could a few teaspoons of sugar do? Well, a lot -- when they add up to 7 pounds of sugar per kid per year.
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'High-fructose corn syrup'? Never heard of it
Consumers turning against your product? Change its name on ingredient lists! Buh-bye, much-maligned HFCS, and hello, sweetly natural "corn sugar."
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Coked-out Coca-Colla [sic]
High-fructose corn syrup in soda? Bad. Cocaine in soda? Depends on whom you ask. We all know Coca-Cola used to contain trace amounts of the narcotic back in the day, but, according to the UK Guardian via Fast Company, Bolivia’s kicking it old school with its coca-leaf containing soda, Coca-Colla (note the second L—I smell […]