Archive | August, 2006
Fat is the new thin
World hunger is no longer the worst problem facing humans. Hooray! Well, it’s not exactly cause for celebration. While there are 800 million people starving worldwide, there are over 1 billion overweight people. That’s right, the overnourished officially outnumber the undernourished. The reasons? Major shifts in diet and a decline in physical work. Particularly in [...]
Put down that Coke
Imagine dumping 12 teaspoons of sugar into 16 oz. of coffee. Talk about light and sweet. Yuck. However, many of us don’t have a problem sucking down other beverages that are just as sweet. A can of soda has close to 40 g of corn syrup in it (which is the same level of sweetness [...]