Here's our regular curation of the top content about sugar we've seen over the festive season.
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Lifestyle
Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
Children Consume 11000 Excess Grams of Sugar Per Year
Revealed: British children consume 22 stones of sugar before the age of 10
5 telltale signs your kids are consuming too much sugar
Health
No evidence of sugar substitutes' health benefits, finds study
Kidney Disease Risk Tied to Sugar-Sweetened Drinks
Association between intake of non-sugar sweeteners and health outcomes
The Sugardemic
Matthew's experiment changed his family's attitude to sugar
New £20000 fund to help reduce children's sugar intake in Suffolk
'Sugar is #notguilty': Cabinet Minister Liz Truss hits back against plans for a pudding tax
Babies don't have a sweet tooth, so why is their food full of sugar?
Death by sugar: can Southeast Asia win the war on diabetes?
Industry
Sugar's Sick Secrets: How Industry Forces Have Manipulated Science to Downplay the Harm
Opinion: How confectionery products are evolving
Sugar labels
The Stop Sign vs. the Soda Tax
Sugar Tax
The nation's addiction to fizzy drinks reaps €16.5m from new tax
Mexico's sugar tax effective for reducing soda purchases: New data
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.
