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02/27/2018 / By Zoey Sky

No sweets or juice on an empty stomach: Sugars, including fructose, harm the good bacteria in your gut in the absence of food

It looks like it’s better to wait until after you’ve eaten breakfast before you drink some orange juice. According to researchers, drinking fruit juice on an empty stomach “overwhelms the digestive system.” The results from a U.S. study implies that this can upset the “good bacteria” in your gut. The scientists have determined that fruit juice contains […]

01/09/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Teaching children about the causes of obesity helps reduce it, study confirms… so why aren’t schools teaching kids about junk foods?

Could health education help combat childhood obesity? That question is what Tabitha Blasingame of the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital sought to answer in her paper. On determining whether or not health education could contribute to better food and lifestyle choices, she discovered that it very well could. For her study, Blasingame recruited 15 high school […]

06/15/2017 / By Vicki Batts

HONEY found to reduce arterial plaque by an astonishing 30%… could it prevent heart attacks?

Could honey be a natural way to prevent heart disease? That may just be the case. New research has found that a natural sugar found in honey, known as trehalose, can help to reduce the presence of arterial plaque by up to 30 percent. This natural sugar is also found in some other foods, such […]

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