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Diet Soda: Zero Calories, But Still Makes You Fat

Posted on 07/10/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthRegular soda is full of sugar and calories that can make you fat, but what about no-calorie, diet soda? Shouldn’t it help keep you from gaining weight? A growing number of studies say no. In fact, drinking diet soda seems to have the same effect on your waistline as regular sodas, causing weight gain and a craving for more sugar, reports Msnbc.com. A new paper published in Obesity Reviews finds that consuming large amounts of fructose (a type of sugar), artificial sweeteners, and …

Pick Your Packet: Choosing The Best Sugar Substitute

Posted on 06/13/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthWhich is your favorite sweetener packet –white, pink, blue or yellow? That would be white for regular white sugar, pink for saccharin (Sweet ‘N Low), blue for aspartame (Equal), and yellow for sucralose (Splenda) — the most common ones found in restaurants and used in artificially sweetened drinks. The New York Times recently did a roundup of sugar substitutes, a timely topic in light of the fact that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently proposed a ban on super-sized, 32-ounce …

The Takeaway: Health Care Law; Avastin; CT Scans; Diet Soda

Posted on 06/30/2011 by | The Takeaway | Comments

News RoundupsThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati voted Wednesday to uphold the individual mandate provision of President Obama’s  health care law. What that means: Congress can require Americans to carry insurance coverage.