by AskDrPat | Sep 16, 2011 | Diet, General, LifeStyle, Nutrition
141 Reasons Sugar Ruins Your Health (Just Kidding, it’s 143) By Nancy Appleton PhD & G.N. Jacobs Excerpted from Suicide by Sugar Sugar can suppress your immune system. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body. Sugar can cause juvenile delinquency in...
by AskDrPat | Sep 15, 2011 | Diet, Functional Medicine, LifeStyle, Nutrition, Video
Comments: Excellent video with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic...
by AskDrPat | Sep 14, 2011 | Diet, General, LifeStyle, Nutrition
Used with permission from www.vitalchoice.com Gary Taubes is the bestselling author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat, and he covers the diet-health beat for The New York Times. While we don’t agree with everything he concludes about diets, we think...
by AskDrPat | May 27, 2011 | General
Comment: Right from Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Sugar will kill you.
by AskDrPat | May 26, 2011 | General
Is Sugar Toxic? Kenji Aoki for The New York Times By GARY TAUBES Published: April 13, 2011 On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,”. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about...