BBC1 today at 8pm for four weeks. What a nice surprise, this programme is right up my street. How to eat healthy foods at reasonable prices, and an interesting watch, similar in format to Country File, watching food from the…

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Without wanting to bore readers with my life story, let me just say that after cutting out cans of coke and some sugars (because these made me hungry, or at the very least less full), I did the following: Cut…

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Dr Robert Lustig is on a bit of a mission, he believes that high sugar intake, including fructose, is responsible for the obesity epidemic, and could be responsible for 35 million deaths worldwide, which if proved, would be the highest…

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Can you be addicted to carbs? I think you can. One thing I do know, is that high sugar content does not make you feel full. When was the last time you drank a can of coke, fruit juice a…

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Fruit Juice is good for us, right? In Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig, he argues that concentrated fruit juice has a high calorie content and provokes a high level of insulin (amongst other things). It also contains high levels…

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