News tagged with empty calories

Researchers: Societal control of sugar essential to ease public health burden

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million ...

Health Feb 01, 2012 | 2.9 / 5 (9) | 6 |

Snacking associated with increased calories, decreased nutrients

Snacking is a dietary behavior that has increased in recent decades in the United States, while percentages of the population who are overweight and obese also have increased. Now, U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Health Mar 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0