Tag: Sugar

  • Nation & World

    Longevity benefits of Mediterranean diet know no boundaries

    In a study of adults in the U.K., those who adhered closely to a Mediterranean lifestyle had a 29% lower risk of all-cause mortality and a 28% lower risk of cancer mortality.

    3 minutes
    Mediterranean meal being shared.
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    Coffee is good for you, probably

    A recent study says you may not need to drink coffee without sugar to gain the health benefits. HMS’ Christina Wee discusses the state of science on coffee’s attributes as a health drink.

    5 minutes
    Man putting sugar in his coffee.
  • Nation & World

    Cut sugar to save lives, researchers urge

    A new health and economic model clearly shows why it’s imperative that food manufacturers reduce the amount of added sugar in their products.

    4 minutes
    Sugar.
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    Dissecting the ‘undruggable’

    Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.

    5 minutes
    Christina Woo in her lab.
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    The unsavory side of sugar

    “Epidemiologic, Physiologic, and Policy Considerations of the Sugar Epidemic” brought health and science experts together at Harvard Medical School to discuss sugar’s effects on health and public policy.

    5 minutes
    Sugar.
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    Joanne Chang breaks down sugar

    Flour Bakery owner Joanne Chang ’91 explained for 500 listeners the uses of sugar in a “Science and Cooking” lecture.

    3 minutes
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    Sugar stands accused

    Science journalist Gary Taubes brought his “Case Against Sugar” to Harvard Law School.

    4 minutes
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    The path to profits in Africa

    Africa’s richest man shared the story of how he transformed a company with four cement trucks into a continent-spanning conglomerate, during a session organized by the Harvard Center for African Studies.

    5 minutes
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    Sweet feat

    New research by Harvard scientists shows how hummingbirds evolved a novel mechanism of taste.

    6 minutes
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    Too sweet for our own good

    Even the “healthy” fruit drinks that Americans sip are packed with the amount of sugar contained in six cookies. That love affair is making us sick.

    4 minutes
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    Insulin and colon cancer linked

    Researchers have found that colorectal cancer survivors whose diet and activity patterns lead to excess amounts of insulin in the blood have a higher risk of cancer recurrence and death from the disease.

    3 minutes
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    Synthetic future

    In the synthetic biology lab of Professor Pamela Silver, researchers are looking for ways to make biological engineering faster, cheaper, and more predictable.

    8 minutes
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    Tax on sugary drinks?

    The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for decades, yet long-term prevention efforts have barely begun and are inadequate, according to a new paper from international public health experts published in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal The Lancet.

    3 minutes
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    Right this way! See it! Taste it!

    Former FDA commissioner David Kessler says overeating has to be attacked the same way that tobacco was in the past, by making it socially unacceptable.

    3 minutes
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    Getting to obesity’s bottom line

    Hunter-gatherer instincts set loose in a world of modern food abundance are at the root of today’s obesity crisis, according to a Harvard psychologist.

    5 minutes