Just Asking … Have You Ever Pulled Your Sweet Tooth?
My question for you is whether you have changed your habits and dialed down your cravings for sugar? If so, what did you do, and how did you do it? Of course, the bad news is that if you crave more sugar, you’ll eat more sugar. By contrast, if...
Coffee Is Super Healthy, Unless You Mess It Up In One of These Three Ways
From a health perspective, coffee has turned a corner and is increasingly recognized as a healthful drink. In addition to being an antioxidant, it’s also linked to a decreased risk for Parkinson’s disease, protecting against type 2 diabetes, improving heart health, and lowering rates of depression in women. Despite...
AskWill: This Valentines Day learn the difference between chocolate and “chocolate”
Dear Will, With Valentine’s Day coming up I’m a bit confused. Normally I’d just get chocolates for my wife, knowing that they’re a decadent, not-so-good-for-you treat. But lately I’ve heard that there’s good chocolate and bad chocolate. Now I feel like I could actually making wrong choice! Dear Confused,...
Ask Will: Is it okay to eat over one’s daily recommended sugar intake if the calories are coming from fruit?
Hello,Is it okay to eat over one’s daily recommended sugar intake if the calories are coming from fruit?Thank you!ChelseaFollow @willclowerHi Chelsea! In one sense, the source of sugar doesn’t matterAll sugar, regardless of the source — whether it’s from a grossly over-sweetened faux food or from a perfectly healthy...
Ick Or Treat! Candy Corn: Why to avoid this.
It says, “Made with REAL HONEY”, so it must be good for you. I’m presenting Week 1 of our Not One Ounce Holiday Program today at noon and 3pm, and we’re talking about the best candies to choose for Halloween. Spoiler Alert! (it’s not the candy corn)To make the point...
Hyperactive kids and the “Halloween Effect”: What’s really the cause?
Conventional Wisdom This article was written with Dr. Raquel Keledjian (who is awesome!). With Halloween soon approaching, parents brace for the yearly “Halloween Effect. This is the common belief that the sugary sweets and chocolates of Halloween cause children to bounce off the walls with hyperactivity. To compensate, parents often substitute...
Stevia and The Tooth
Stevia comes from a South American plant (Stevia rebaudiana) that happens to be very very sweet, but doesn’t contain calories or nutritive value. It’s like a natural form of the synthetic versions found in the wedding mint colored packets (powder blue, sunshine yellow, and It’s-A-Girl pink) in any coffee...
On sugar, synthetic sugars, and metabolic derangement
I just presented yesterday for a large company’s health fair, and during both of my presentations the same question came up. What about sugar? After all, we know Americans eat about 140 POUNDS of sugar per person per year. I don’t eat a lot myself, so some of you...
The Summer Sweet Tooth and Healthy Peaches
Follow @willclower This is my segment, recorded on KDKA-TV. I explain WHY excess sugar is a problem, what to be concerned about, and what is really not a problem at all. One of the items that is just not a problem? Fruit. I mean, I know people who won’t...
Which Sugars Are Best? Just remember the 3 rules …
I was on KDKA-TV this morning talking about all the sweeteners out there — there are tons of them!! Here is the link for the video: Real and Artificial Sweeteners – YouTube First we moved through the artificial ones … the synthetics that are between 100 — 200 TIMES as...
Weight gain increases with added sugars intake, data suggests
Weight gain increases with added sugars intake, data suggests Trends in weight gain have paralleled trends in intake of added sugars, according to a review of 27 years of Minnesota Heart Survey data presented at an American Heart Association (AHA) event. The researchers, from the University of Minnesota in...
Want high blood pressure? Here’s what to drink.
Just when you thought it was safe. Just when you thought it was easy to understand how to prevent high blood pressure and the pesky brain haemorrhage that can follow from it. Just cut out salt, right? Well, now scientists have linked drinking sugary drinks like fizzy cola and fruit drinks...