The glycemic index is not just bad science, it has a dangerous loophole big enough to drive an ice-cream truck through.
Fructose
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: What’s so wrong with publicly identifying yourself?
What exactly is the problem with making bloggers and commenters in SA publicly identify themselves? asks one Crikey reader. Plus, Prince William, Fructose and angry dads.
Like good health, it’s all about balance
Last week, David Gillespie criticised the use of Nestle’s Optifast weight loss shake. But the obesity epidemic of the past 30 years is not due to a single cause, writes Neil Holt.
Heart attack debate not weighted in favour of the shake
Why would Nestle start spruiking a shake diet to lose weight, which has a known cause of heart disease as one of its main ingredients? Sounds like a conspiracy for getting fat people to have heart attacks.
Why fructose-laden drinks when there’s a healthy option on tap?
In the name of getting enough water, Australia’s school canteens are selling kids a drink sweetened with 21g of pure fructose. When did we become a nation requiring constant hydration, anyway?
Still sweet for sugar in fat, slumbering Australia
Big Sugar in the United States is spending vast streams of cash to defend sugary drinks in the debate around soft drink and obesity — but at least they’re having a debate.
