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Connie Bennett, M.S.J., C.H.H.C. is a certified health counselor, life coach, '"Sugar Liberator,"... Full Bio
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Can An Apple a Day Keep the Doctor Away? by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
SUGAR SHOCK! Blog Makes Debut by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Conn. Governor Vetoes Ban on Junk Food & Soda by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Study Shows Diet Sodas Are Linked to Weight Gain by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Type 1 Diabetics Controling Glucose Lower Cardiac Risk by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
"The Simpsons" Humorously Spoofs Sugar "Addiction" by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Mother Sues Cereal Companies for Deceptive Labeling by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Experts Say "Reduced-Sugar" Cereals Not Nutritionally Sweet by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Vitamin-Spiked Candy? Isn't That An Oxymoron? by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Col. Supreme Court Upholds Low Blood Sugar Defense by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Shame on Reporters Critical of Cookie Monster's New Moderate Habits by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
ADA’s Top Medical Official Claims Sugar Has Nothing to do With Diabetes by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Potato Farmers Seeking to Banish Term "Couch Potato" by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Blog Spotlight: Nutritionist Jonny Bowden Offers Insights Galore by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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, ... Read on »
Kicking Sweets? Laugh at "Top 100 Hoaxes Of All Time" by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Junk Food Ousted From New Jersey Schools by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Numbers of Diagnosed Diabetics Jump by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Thanks to the "Diet King": SugarShockBlog.com Featured on Blog by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Kids Eat More When Given Large Servings by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »
Sweet Drinks Top the Consuming Charts by Connie Bennett Healthy Living ProfessionalPeople's HealthBlogger Award Nominee Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating 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 ... Read on »