Anahad O’Connor Published: September 13, 2016 – The Age The sugar industry in the US paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the UniversityRead more
Jan. 2, 2016 Maggie Fox NBC News Researchers say they may have helped explain how sugar might fuel the growth of cancer, and say it boils down to one type of sugar in particular: fructose. Tests in mice show a possible mechanism for how it happens. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, supportRead more
By Sam Ikin ABC News – Thu 18 Feb 2016 The mental health side of obesity is not something that has been given much coverage. Anti-obesity campaigns have mostly been based on a version of the old mantra “eat less, exercise more”, but is anyone in the country actually not aware of that? IfRead more
By David Ludwig, October 18, 2016 David Ludwig is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and the author of the book “Always Hungry? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells and Lose Weight Permanently.” (CNN)Normally, science advances by trial and error. When an experiment fails, researchers question assumptions, formulate new ideasRead more
By Margaret Burin, 9.07.16, ABC. What began as a pin-hole sized lesion on the bottom of Alan Tillotson’s foot quickly turned into a nasty infection, leading to the amputation of his leg. Like many people with diabetes, the 65-year-old country Victorian truck driver isn’t quite sure how the wound first developed. It might have beenRead more
From Melissa Joulwan, Aug 24th, 2016 – The New Potato We’ve all done it! We mindlessly eat foods that we don’t want. But they’re there: the so-so cake at a co-worker’s birthday party. The bottomless baskets of tortilla chips at a favorite Mexican restaurant. Bagels in the breakroom on Wednesdays. Maybe even dinner in frontRead more
