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Connie Bennett
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Connie Bennett, M.S.J., C.H.H.C. is a certified health counselor, life coach, '"Sugar Liberator,"...
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Can An Apple a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
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Well, I'll be darned.A Canadian study shows that there just might be partial credence to the popular phrase, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."Indeed, researche ...
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SUGAR SHOCK! Blog Makes Debut
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Welcome friends, acquaintances, and you hordes of information-hungry readers out there.Thanks for popping by to witness the debut of my new SUGAR SHOCK! Blog.Ever the eternal ...
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Conn. Governor Vetoes Ban on Junk Food & Soda
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When I learned that Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a bill that would have banned most soft drinks and junk food from Connecticut schools and add 20 minutes of exercise o ...
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Study Shows Diet Sodas Are Linked to Weight Gain
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Americans think that drinking diet sodas helps them lose weight, right? Well, a new study examining eight years of data on 1,550 Americans found that the diet soda drinkers ga ...
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Type 1 Diabetics Controling Glucose Lower Cardiac Risk
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Type 1 diabetics who keep their blood sugar levels close to normal can cut their risk of cardiovascular disease by about 50 percent and their risk of heart attack and stroke b ...
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"The Simpsons" Humorously Spoofs Sugar "Addiction"
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Every so often, one of the mentees in my free online KickSugar group draws my attention to a particularly humorous episode of "The Simpsons" which tackles the obesit ...
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Mother Sues Cereal Companies for Deceptive Labeling
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You can’t help but see a profusion of new ads and marketing ploys to get us to buy cereals that purportedly contain less sugar. Well, a San Diego mother of two daughters ...
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Experts Say "Reduced-Sugar" Cereals Not Nutritionally Sweet
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Hurray for the Associated Press for trying to ferret out the truth about the "reduced-sugar" versions of children's breakfast cereals as Froot Loops and Frosted Flak ...
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Vitamin-Spiked Candy? Isn't That An Oxymoron?
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Oh goodness, this new sugary development has got to take the cake, if you'll pardon the worn-out pun. Makers of chewy candies are now targeting fitness enthusiasts by stoking ...
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Col. Supreme Court Upholds Low Blood Sugar Defense
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An insulin-dependent diabetic man convicted of trying to kill his wife won a chance for a new trial when the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that under certain conditions, hypogl ...
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Shame on Reporters Critical of Cookie Monster's New Moderate Habits
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Back in 1998, I adored cookies, especially chocolate chip. But even before I started saying no to cookies, candies, and cake (on doctor’s orders) for the sake of my heal ...
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ADA’s Top Medical Official Claims Sugar Has Nothing to do With Diabetes
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On April 21, the American Diabetes Association announced that it was receiving a multi-million dollar three-year gift from large soft drink producer Cadbury Schweppes Americas ...
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Potato Farmers Seeking to Banish Term "Couch Potato"
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I just had to laugh today when I read a story that a group of British potato farmers demonstrated outside Parliament in London to banish the term "couch potato" from ...
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Blog Spotlight: Nutritionist Jonny Bowden Offers Insights Galore
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Nutritionist Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. offers some compelling commentary and thought-provoking ideas on his blog, in his posts, "Expensive to Eat Healthy?" (Monday, ...
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Kicking Sweets? Laugh at "Top 100 Hoaxes Of All Time"
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This post isn't about sugar, diabetes, or artificial sweeteners. But this belongs here, because you can help your health, boost your healing, and ease out of your sugar habit ...
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Junk Food Ousted From New Jersey Schools
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Yet another success for the boot-junk-food-out-of-the-schools movement.Junk food and soda are being expelled, so to speak, from New Jersey public schools, beginning with the 2 ...
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Numbers of Diagnosed Diabetics Jump
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We simply can't escape the sad diabetes news. Now, we're discovering that the number of diagnosed diabetics jumped a whopping 41 % between 1997 and 2003, according to investi ...
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Thanks to the "Diet King": SugarShockBlog.com Featured on Blog
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Thanks so much to "Diet King" Adam Wilk for his really nice post today, which featured this SugarShockBlog.com, my SugarShock.com website, and more!See what Adam sai ...
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Kids Eat More When Given Large Servings
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If you put a large plate of food in front of pre-school children, they'll eat it, even if if they've had a lot to eat at their last meal, according to Cornell University resea ...
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Sweet Drinks Top the Consuming Charts
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Move over white bread. Soda and sweet drinks are most Americans' single largest source of daily calories. Ouch! But then again, we already knew that, right? All we have to do ...
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