Posts Tagged ‘sugar’

Will Britain’s soda tax turn out to be potent symbolism or just another leaky sandbag on the anti-obesity levee? We are well past the point of changing anyone’s mind on this polarized issue. It’s become an article of faith for some — they’ve discarded any doubts it will work. For others, it’s evidence for the […]

Big soda is rapidly becoming small soda, without the help of soda taxes. Sales of the three largest soft drink makers — Coke, Pepsi, and Dr. Pepper Snapple — are stabilizing as measured in dollars while the number of ounces sold is continuing a long-term decline. Those clever marketers are repositioning their brands as a […]

Who are they kidding? Every time a snowstorm is looming, reporters trot out clichéd stories about everybody stocking up on milk, bread, and eggs. Not only is it unoriginal, we’re here to tell you it’s not true. Soup and pizza are the top foods to stock for a snowstorm, not milk and bread. Comfort is the theme of […]

Prepare for an onslaught of no-added-sugar products. Food marketers have had more than a year to prepare for new dietary guidelines that formalize America’s growing aversion to sugar. And they provide a treasure map to a marketing windfall. Fresh new health claims are already emerging. Nutrition VP Jaime Schwartz Cohen of Ketchum Public Relations tells Advertising Age […]

In its first year, Mexico’s soda tax does appear to have caused a reduction in purchases of soda, according to a new study published in the BMJ. Researchers from Mexico and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found a six percent decline in 2014 for sugary beverages that were taxed and a four percent increase in […]

Behind the headlines of 2015 in obesity and nutrition, some important shifts have set the table for what will come in 2016. Here are six standouts Dear Fat Shamers. This was the year that public sentiment crossed a line from accepting to rejecting fat shaming. A series of stories through the year have made fat […]

Years ago, the concept of metabolic surgery started wedging itself into the realm of bariatric surgery. While it’s absurd to say that a gastric bypass is brain surgery, a steady stream of research on the neuroscience of bariatric surgery certainly raises a key question: does this surgery modify the nervous system as much as much as the gastrointestinal system? […]

Should the recent news that obesity rates are still climbing prompt rethinking of some popular, but shaky assumptions about what it will take to reverse the trends in obesity? Could it be that groupthink is a key problem that undermines our obesity strategies? It would be hard to miss the fact that like minded people stick […]

Reading the latest headlines on a new study published in Obesity, it’s hard to know whether we are supposed to think that sugar is addictive or poisonous. Robert Lustig says his new study provides “hard and fast data that sugar is toxic irrespective of its calories and irrespective of weight.” Perhaps we are supposed to conclude that […]

Consumers already have a pretty good idea that too much added sugar in the food they eat is not good. But they’re not so sure how much is a lot. A new study published in Obesity adds to the evidence that proposed changes in the Nutrition Facts label will make things a bit clearer regarding added […]