Sugar

High blood pressure (a reading above 120/80mmHg) is a leading cause of heart disease and a major risk factor for stroke, kidney problems and dementia. Consequently, people with high blood [...]

Last week I flew to Melbourne to speak at the National Dementia Conference. The first thing I saw at the airport when I stepped off the plane was a billboard for ‘The Brain Drink’ pictured above. [...]

What better time than immediately after Easter to talk about sugar? Is there really such a thing as a sugar rush? What about a sugar crash? Sugar cravings? Sugar addiction? Click here to listen [...]

Bring me some honey, Honey! If you catch a common cold, swap your antibiotics and cough suppressant medications for honey! Antibiotics are of no use in treating colds because most colds are due [...]

Does swapping sugar for artificial sweeteners lead to weight loss? How can you strengthen your willpower? Do people drink more from tall or short glasses? Does the size of our cutlery matter? How [...]

Many readers have asked about the different names for sugar sprinkled liberally throughout our food supply. So here they are. If you have trouble falling asleep, forget counting sheep. Counting [...]

Late afternoon on 31st October I placed a large pumpkin at my front gate, a witch’s hat over the letter box and a flowing white sheet with black oval eyes and spooky mouth over the recycling bin. [...]

I want to share a good news story from France. Forward this to your friends and let’s start a similar conversation in Australia. Excerpt from the The Telegraph UK on 27 January 2017. Read the [...]

At last a good news story about fructose. But first another bad news story. Sorry. Fructose has been shown to impair brain function by changing hundreds of genes in the hippocampus and [...]