(Natural News) Humans are naturally wired to crave sugar because it plays an important role in survival. During ancient times, sugar was mostly available in the summertime. People during those times would indulge in it to store excess calories in the form of body fat to survive through the cold winter seasons. Today, however, sugar […]

(Natural News) Lots of dieters like to take “shortcuts” that they believe will help them continue to enjoy their favorite foods without getting too far off track from reaching their goals. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that one very popular substitute – artificial sweeteners – isn’t really helping their weight loss efforts after all. A […]

(Natural News) You know that soda is bad for you, but how good are you at resisting it? You might not drink it every day, but maybe you allow yourself to indulge occasionally – perhaps when you’re having a burger. How bad can it be if you’re only doing it once in a while? The […]

(Natural News) Both fruits and sweetened beverages — which include soda and sports drinks — have fructose, also known as fruit sugar. However, fruits also contain dietary fiber which helps counterbalance the effects of fructose, something that the latter does not have. In a review published in the journal The BMJ, scientists found that consuming these […]

(Natural News) Sugar substitutes are unquestionably bad for you, but many people who are trying to lose weight aren’t exactly averse to taking on a few risks if they think it will help them reach their goal faster. Unfortunately, those who make this choice are putting their health in danger for no good reason as […]

(Natural News) The most popular yet infamous artificial sweetener on the market just got tagged by two highly credible science studies as being correlated with accelerated brain aging. On the hook for causing smaller overall brain volume, a significantly smaller hippocampus and poorer memory, not only was aspartame implicated in the science studies, but “regular” soda […]

(Natural News) It is simply mind-blowing to think that at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) has to virtually blackmail pharmaceutical companies to create desperately needed antibiotics to fight the surge of superbugs, that there are pharmaceutical companies willing to waste resources on absolute nonsense. A report in the journal Scientific Reports has […]

(Natural News) A startling study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals a link between high blood sugar levels and an increased risk for dementia, even in people who are not diabetic. Authors of the study speculate that having higher blood sugar levels can increase the risk for vascular disease, which, in turn, […]

(Natural News) Research has found that an extract from the “thunder god vine” contains triptolide, a small molecule that can stop cells from multiplying. Jun O. Liu, Ph.D. is a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. He and […]

(Natural News) A study that was published in the Obesity issue of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry‘s journal, Clinical Chemistry, showed that people face higher risks of becoming obese if they produce higher-than-normal levels of insulin after ingesting processed carbohydrates. This finding backs the assumption that refined carbs are causing the obesity epidemic. “Americans […]