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Sugar May Increase Your Risk of Cancer

“The sugar-cancer connection is compelling and scary,” says Bennett, pointing to in vitro studies that show cancer cells feed on sugar to fuel their growth and proliferation. “Researchers call them ‘glucose guzzlers.’” While it’s not proven that sugar fuels cancer growth in the body, we do know

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Vacillation over Vaccinations

Quite a bit of controversy is hitting the printed media these days regarding vaccinations.  If one reads the material closely, one thing is constant with all the pieces: Babies and toddlers do not have fully developed immune systems.   “But they [virus] are still around, and can

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Sugar Can Increase Your Chances of Depression

Eating sugar and carbs can give you a temporary mood boost—it triggers your body to release the feel-good hormone serotonin—but overloading your system with sugar seems to have the reverse effect, says Teitelbaum. In fact, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine found a correlation between sugar consumption

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