by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 25, 2019 | Nutrition
The Nurses’ Health study and The Health Professional’s Follow-Up study, two of the largest studies on the subject, show that sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with increased risk for heart attacks, diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure, and the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 6, 2019 | Nutrition
Dietary sugar is supposed to be absorbed in the upper intestinal tract, but research from Yale suggests that taking in excessive amounts of sugar can cause some of the sugar to pass through the intestines unabsorbed. This sugar arrives in your colon where it can harm...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 18, 2018 | Diabetes
Very exciting research from Princeton University explains how taking in sugared drinks and any sugar added to foods (not in whole fruits and vegetables) can cause diabetes (Cell Metabolism, Feb 6, 2018;27(2):351–361). The most common sugar source in foods contains two...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Nutrition
The average North American takes in 150 to 200 pounds of sugar a year. Most of your sugar intake comes from added sugars in drinks and packaged, frozen and canned foods that you buy in grocery stores or eat in restaurants. More than 75 percent of the packaged foods in...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 15, 2013 | Fitness
The best time to take sugar to help you prolong your intense exercise is 30 minutes or less before you start. Researchers in Scotland showed that taking a sugared drink 30 minutes before exercise allowed the subjects to exercise at 90 percent of their maximum capacity...
