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Children crave candy like ravenous fiends. Whether double-fisting gummy worms or pouring an endless cascade of sugar into their breakfast cereal, their appetite for sweets seems insatiable. Hold a handful of Twizzlers out to a hungry child and you’ll probably pull back a bloody stump. How did the Pied Piper lure all those children away? Candy flute. Sugar, as we discuss in this podcast, is the fire in which our larval humans burn.
White sugar isn’t good for the human body. Everyone knows that, especially if your mother yelled, “stop eating that junk!” every time you put a piece of candy in your mouth as a kid. But how bad for you is it? Is it bad enough to be considered a toxin? Two credible news outlets explore [...]
At many restaurants you find that container on the table – it holds little packets of sugar along with little packets of artificial sweeteners. And anyone who is on a diet is familiar with artificial sweeteners – they are a big part of the dieting scene because they make low-calorie soft drinks and desserts possible. [...]
There are some obvious things you can do to help get a good score on your next test. For example, if possible you should get a good night’s sleep before the test. And the best way to improve your score is to study for the test so that you know the answers cold. But sometimes [...]
Sodas and soft drinks contain a surprising amount of sugar — more than you might expect. Tune in as Marshall Brain reveals how much sugar is in soda in this episode of BrainStuff.
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