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Health & Wellness News tagged with sugar

Cut Yourself? Tribal Remedy of Sprinkling SUGAR on Wound Heals It Faster
Health & Wellness  (tags: Tribal remedy, wound, health, sugar )

Sophie
- 35 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Rubbing sugar into wounds could cure painful infections including bedsores, research shows. The traditional African remedy is being trialled in British hospitals after a study led by a senior nurse raised in Zimbabwe.
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Not So Sweet Surprise-How Much Sugar Is Really in What You Eat?
Health & Wellness  (tags: sugar, society, risks, warning, nutrition, humans, health, food, family, diet, interesting )

Daphna
- 57 days ago - eatdrinkbetter.com
Just in case you were thinking about indulging in some sweet treats today, I would like to offer you the option to take the healthier road. Sometimes it can take a visual aid to open your eyes and force you to take a cold hard look at what you are actuall
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TAKE ACTION: Say NO to Genetically-Modified Sugar Beets
Health & Wellness  (tags: genetically-modified food, sugar, sugar beets, letter, food manufacturers )

RC
- 386 days ago - dontplantgmobeets.org
Visit the site to sign a letter that will be sent to many American food manufacturers. People from any country can sign. Some of these coward companies are blocking the email, but many more go through. Tell US food giants we don't want GM food!
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Mediterranean Diet Declines, and Weights Rise - NYTimes.Com
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, health, mediterranean, junk food, blood pressure, fat, weight gain, fast food, pizza, sugar, olive oil )

Cissy
- 421 days ago - nytimes.com
Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transformation of his pediatric practice here over the past three years. The usual sniffles and stomachaches of childhood are now interspersed with far more serious conditions: diabetes, high blood pressure, high
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Video & Article: Pima First People's Water Rights Give Hope for Better Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native People, Water, Water Rights, Agriculture, litigation, GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Arizona, government rations, canned food, unhealthy, fast food, diabetes, traditional farming, natural foods, community garden, diet, fats, sugar )

Alba
- 446 days ago - nytimes.com
Now, after yrs of litigation that produced the largest water-rights settlement ever in Indian country, the Pima are getting some of their water back. Will they now go back to natural farming & vegies to fight the diabetes >1/2 the tribe suffers from?
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Take Action: GE (Genetically Engineered) Sugar? Not So Sweet
Health & Wellness  (tags: Monsanto, poison, Roundup weed killer, poison residue, EPA, genetic engineering, sugar, candy, lobbyists, americans, corruption, dishonesty, ethics, freedoms, lies, ecosystems, environment, children, consumers, farming, money, food, garden, health, health )

Rebecca
- 639 days ago - ga3.org
Half of the sugar used in the U.S. is beet sugar. A new option available this year is Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beet, genetically engineered to survive direct application of the weed killer, Roundup. The EPA raised the allowable residue level 5000%!!
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Two Fizzy Drinks a Day 'Can Give You Gout'
Health & Wellness  (tags: gout, illness, joints, drinks, carbonated, health, sugar, fructose )

Cissy
- 657 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Fizzy drinks can dramatically increase the risk of gout, it is claimed. As sales plummet over other health concerns, scientists revealed yesterday that carbonated drinks are behind a rise in the painful joint condition.
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What Happens to Your Body Within An Hour of Drinking a Coke
Health & Wellness  (tags: sugar, blood pressure, Aspartame, DNA damage, risk of obesity jumped by 60 percent )


- 678 days ago - articles.mercola.com
Do you want to be healthy? Drinking soda is bad for your health in so many ways; science can't even state all the consequences. Here's what happens in your body when you assault it with a Coke
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Honey May Improve Insulin Sensitivity.
Health & Wellness  (tags: bees, honey, research, insulin, sugar, food, health, healthy )

Burton
- 681 days ago - upi.com
Experimental evidence suggests that consumption of honey compared to some other sweeteners may improve blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity.
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What You Put in Your Tummy Shows Up in Your Skin
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, food, skin, sugar, proteins, hydrogenated fats, whole organic foods )

Eduardo
- 718 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
if you want to look swell, not swollen, both women advise skipping the sugar; eating whole, organic foods whenever possible and ignoring anything from a can or a box. Eat protein. Never, ever go near hydrogenated fats. They are worse than smoking.
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Energy Drinks Aren't Worth the Buzz
Health & Wellness  (tags: Energy drinks, sugar, afffeine, energy, risks, health )

Eduardo
- 753 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Energy drinks usually contain large amounts of sugar and caffeine.The short-term boost you get from energy drinks is mostly from the caffeine content. From a holistic point of view, there are major downsides to relying on caffeine and sugar for energy.
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