Topic “sugar”

By Gabriella Boston (Special to The Washington Post)

Have you ever had a sugar-crash? You know that sudden fatigue, headache or irritability you might feel after eating, oh, a hundred jelly beans?

If so, you are probably not alone.

The American Heart Association recommends women consume no more than 100 calories daily from refined sugar, 150 calories for men.

That translates...

By Barbara Quinn (The Monterey County Herald/MCT)

It was a lovely meal. And healthy, too. Fresh fish. Grilled vegetables. And then came dessert ... and that’s all I’m going to say about that.

What makes us so enjoy the taste of sweets? According to the latest position paper on “Nutritive and Non-nutritive Sweeteners” from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (http://www.andjrnl.org/...