Here's our regular curation of the top content about sugar we've seen this week.
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Lifestyle
Sweetened drinks 'more harmful' than natural sugar
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages May Be Addictive
Yogurt or dessert? High sugar makes it hard to tell
7 Tips To Kick Your Sugar Cravings For Good
Can't lose weight? These 'health foods' could be to blame
Health
Shocking rise in child diabetes: 7000 youngsters have Type 2 in 'gravest health crisis'
Children's health is at stake. Sugar and calorie reduction is non negotiable
Type-2 diabetes cases SOAR in UK
Is Diabetes Sneaking Up on You? 6 Early Signs
Sour taste from NSW hospitals' sugar ban
The Sugardemic
Food industry warned to act on obesity 'pandemic'
Overwhelming public support for sugar and calorie reduction
Nine in ten people WANT sugar and calories to be reduced in food
Industry
Junk food ad ban on London transport to take effect in February
London bans junk food ads on its transport network
Fizzy drinks like Coke MORE likely to trigger deadly diabetes
Labels
The Skinny on New Sugar Calorie Counts
Food companies fail to agree on new nutrition label in Europe
If you drink a lot of sugar, this might convince you to cut back
Sugar Tax
Sugar tax on soft drinks raises £154m
Sugar tax revenue helps tackle childhood obesity
Sugar tax news: research shows staggering support for sugar reduction
Sugar tax raises £154m but the government warns more must be done
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.
