Sugar has been increasingly associated with significant health problems.  This is of great concern as the sugar in the diet  currently is approximately 8 times higher than that consumed throughout human history.  This discussion has centered around it being a major cause of obesity and diabetes, which it is.  When sugar consumption exceeds immediate needs, […]

A parallel observation occurring as humans age and develop the common age related diseases is that the intestinal microbiome shifts to a different population.  That begs the question whether these are simply unrelated changes or does one contribute to the other.  In the previous blog I discussed the interesting study which found that fecal medical […]

As sugar consumption was found to be strongly associated with health risks such as obesity and diabetes, a simplistic solution seemed to be the use of non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NCAS) – we could have most things taste sweet with no harm.  The problem has been that after 3-4 decades of consumption of NCAS, both diabetes […]