sugar

The amount of sugar in fruit juices, juice drinks and smoothies targeted at children is "unacceptably high", researchers and campaigners say. They found an average of five teaspoons of sugar per 150ml serving in the 24 smoothies they surveyed - close to the daily limit for a young child. In...

Like sucrose (table sugar), the natural disaccharide isomaltulose (PalatinoseTM) consists of glucose and fructose, but it is apparently more suitable for people with type 2 diabetes with regard to regulating blood glucose levels. This has now been confirmed in a new study carried out by the...

I searched for this here but couldn't find a thread. Is this product safe for diabetics to use? Or perhaps, how safe?

We all know that cola and lemonade aren’t great for our waistline or our dental health, but our new study on rats has shed light on just how much damage sugary drinks can also do to our brain. The changes we observed to the region of the brain that controls emotional behaviour and cognitive...

The NHS is to impose its own "sugar tax" in hospitals and health centres in England to help tackle the growing problem of obesity, its head has said. Chief executive Simon Stevens told the Guardian newspaper he was proposing a 20% tax on all sugary drinks and foods in NHS cafes to be introduced...

Is fat the great evil of our time responsible for seducing us into an early, extra-wide, grave with its delicious succulence? Or is it as misunderstood as it is mouth-watering? And in need of a welcome return to our plates? As the campaign against sugar has ratcheted up over the past year or...

I am caring for a relative who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a year ago. She is in her eighties and also has repeated urine infections. One GP implied there was a link as the increased sugar in her urine feeds the infections. Initially after being diagnosed she saw a dietician and made some...