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Emerging research suggests that sugar may be linked to deadly diseases, but Health Canada?s current food labelling regulations make it tough for Canadians to get an easy picture of how much of the sweet substance they are consuming ? and it doesn?t look like that?s going to change any time soon.
The groundbreaking and controversial research explored by the CBC?s the fifth estate in its season premiere tonight links sugar to diseases ranging from diabetes to cancer and Alzheimer?s.
?Sugar is toxic beyond its calories,? Dr. Robert Lustig, an expert on childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, told the fifth estate?s Gillian Findlay.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/03/is-sugar-bad_n_4042114.html?utm_hp_ref=canada
The groundbreaking and controversial research explored by the CBC?s the fifth estate in its season premiere tonight links sugar to diseases ranging from diabetes to cancer and Alzheimer?s.
?Sugar is toxic beyond its calories,? Dr. Robert Lustig, an expert on childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, told the fifth estate?s Gillian Findlay.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/03/is-sugar-bad_n_4042114.html?utm_hp_ref=canada
