Notices tagged with sugar

How is it that low carb, low sugar, low salt-content healthy foods, cost more than double of their regular peers (at least in #SouthAfrica they do)? #carbohydrates #sugar #salt #health #healthfood #healthfoods

Good Morning ☕

My #C0FFEE is not the black color, although I do not drink it with milk or sugar.

🖌️ https://www.color-hex.com/color/c0ffee

#coffee #goodmorning #rgb #webdev #joke #color #LightGreen #dark #milk #frame #sugar #webdesign #nerdjokes

Sugary drinks linked to millions of new #diabetes and heart disease cases – study - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/06/global-health-inequalities-sugary-drinks-diabetes-heart-disease-africa-latin-america-influencers "Tufts University analysis highlights rise in global health inequalities, with fastest growth in linked diseases in Africa" #sugar

Here's to the wonderful memories made in 2024, as well as the ones we'll create together in 2025.

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#SugarLabs #Sugar #Programming #Software #OLPC #OutOfSchoolTime #Fun #Learning #Education #STEM

Curious what life might be like as a parent using the Sugar Learning Platform at home?

@pikurasa shares his reflections using Sugar both at home and in the classroom.

Check it out: https://medium.com/@sugarlabs/reflections-as-a-parent-and-teacher-sugar-at-home-and-in-the-classroom-c0aa9af0e34c

#OLPC #Sugar #SugarLabs #Parenting #DigitalNative #QualityScreenTime #Education #Programming #Fun

Added sugar intake & associations w. incidence of 7 cardiovascular diseases in 69,705 Swedish men/women
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1452085
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372379

* adverse health effects of sugar-sweetened beverages
* implications of o/a added sugar intake unclear
* assoc. added sugar intake/cardiovascular dis. vary by disease/source of sugar

Comment: much disuss. of fructose in HN link

#health #diet #sugar #carbohydrate #fructose #HFCS #disease #cardiovascular #GlucoseFructose #FructoseGlucose

#ClimateChange makes life less sweet

"Europe’s flooded fields are delaying #sugar harvesting and threatening to wipe out 15% of #beet crops still to be collected in #France, one of the region’s biggest growers of the sweetener.

Dutch farmers still have about 50% of beets in fields.
Harvest delays will probably prolong #Germany’s beet campaign until February, increasing the risk of crop losses to frost."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/flooded-fields-delay-european-sugar-harvest-and-risk-beet-losses

Ugh. So hard to avoid eating sugar.

It’s in everything! Ketchup, cake, chocolate, candy, Frosted Flakes! It’s impossible! 🤭

#adulting #diet #nutrition #ageing #health #sugar

Ghawr as-Safi Sugar Mills in Ghawr as-Safi, Jordan

This millennium-old site reflects a time when sugar was a treasured commodity.#archaeology #history&culture #agriculture #sugar #section-Atlas
Ghawr as-Safi Sugar Mills

So the new UK Health Secretary is married to a senior executive in the sugar industry. Nothing to see here.

#ConflictOfInterest #Sugar #VictoriaAtkins #NHS #PublicHealth