Here's our regular curation of the top content about sugar we've seen this week.
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Lifestyle
'Try not to offer kids sugar as a treat'
Forget The Sugar High, Say Hello To The Sugar Coma
7 Easy Ways To Scale Back On Sugar (Without Hating Your Life)
Sugar: How Bad Are Sweets for Your Kids?
6 Scientifically Proven Ways To Wean Yourself Off Sugar
Handy hints for cutting back on sugar
Health
Avoid sugar for a longer life: Fizzy drinks and sweets 'have major role in disease'
Sugary drinks banned from sale in NHS hospitals from July
Dietary sugar linked to bacterial epidemics
Not so sweet news: Your candy cravings could be stifling your brain
No Added Sugar campaign encourages East Texans to give up sugar
The Sugardemic
Could sugar be responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemics?
Sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks 'fuelling obesity epidemic'
The moral argument for quitting sugar
Industry
In memoriam: Irn-Bru (1898 – 2018)
Irn Bru sugar cut has Scots mad
Waitrose bans sale of energy drinks to under-16s
Sugar tax
Health experts support sugar tax as Coalition calls for 'personal responsibility
Peak Aussie medical organization calls for sugar tax on beverages ...
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.
