sugar

Sugar content has been flagged as one of the main contributors of childhood obesity in the world, let us look at a recent initiative by the FDA (The Food & Drug Administration in the US). Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are two leading causes of death in the US, responsible for over 715 thousand deaths in 2016 alone, yet both are preventable and reversible. And one of the major risk factors for both of these chronic diseases is a poor diet, partially due to excessive sugar consumption. This is something the FDA is hoping to address by making changes to nutrition labels that give consumers better access to [...]