Here's our regular curation of the top content about sugar we've seen this week.
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Lifestyle
Why coconut water is not as healthy as it seems
Can food REALLY protect you from dementia?
Which Natural Sweetener is Healthiest?
How Queensland teenager Josephine Desgrand lost 60kg in 12 months
Is fructose as bad for you as alcohol?
How much candy should you really allow your kids per day?
Health
Things go better without sugar
Sugar tax should be spent on dental health
Calls for war on junk food ads as obesity costs set to rise by 60 per cent
Too much sugar? Even 'healthy people' are at risk of developing heart disease
Sugardemic
Sugar info should be displayed to help in obesity fight
Shocking figures show there are now 124 million obese children worldwide
Ten times more children and teens obese today than 40 years ago
Cutting sugar in soft drinks would save 155000 lives and $8 billion
Industry
Sugar tactics: Irish children targeted on social media by sugar giants
Soft drinks and hard decisions
Sugar tax
Sugar tax adds 60c to two-litre bottle of fizzy drink
Coke, 7UP and... tonic water? The drinks that will be hit by the sugar tax
Benefits from Sugar-Drink Taxes are Clear
Soda tax goes flat in Chicago area's Cook County after clash
How does sugar compare to tobacco? A teaspoon of sugar or one cigarette will not harm you. But over time, the habit can be fatal. Unlike Big Tobacco, Big Sugar deliberately targets children. And added sugar has become so pervasive within the food environment that we can't avoid it even if we wanted to.
