By K. Aleisha Fetters for DETAILS.(photo: Corbis)You may know that so-called low-fat and fat-free diet foods are often packed with sugar, salt, and chemical-laden additives. There are lots of “healthy foods that aren’t really healthy.” But did you realize that your body digests these “healthy” alternatives in record time, leaving you hungry for…

New research presented at this year’s annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) shows that high protein diets improve blood sugar control in patients with type 2…

Title: Sugary Drinks Often Part of Overall Poor Diet
Category: Health News
Created: 9/16/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/17/2015 12:00:00 AM

Images on food and dietary supplement packaging might lead people – appropriately or inappropriately – to infer the health benefits of those products.

New research presented at this year’s annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Stockholm shows that high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, which has…

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Originally published on Unwritten by Stephanie Tate.My whole life has been a series of sugar free cookies (why?!), salads without croutons (tragic), and choosing to get to resistance 9 on an elliptical instead of getting drinks with friends. Throughout my life, I’ve been told to lose weight several times. Each reason they gave me seemed more…

A three-year-old American girl has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes — a condition linked to obesity — making her one of the youngest people ever detected with the disease. Type 2 diabetes used to be known as “adult-onset” because it is most common among the middle-aged and elderly, but in the last two decades increasing numbers of children have succumbed, due to poor diets and lack of exercise. Details of the case are being presented on Thursday at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm by Michael Yafi, director of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Texas, Houston.

Drinking diet soda may go hand in hand with indulging in extra helpings of sugar- and fat-laden foods like cookies or french fries, a new study suggests.Researchers found that on the days that the people in the study drank diet or sugar-free drinks, they consumed about 49 more calories from high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods — such as ice…