Aussie Researchers Find Sugar Compounds With Positive Potential

A trio of researchers in Australia have discovered a sugar compound that could help prevent heart disease. According to a release from the University of Melbourne, Dr. Corin Storkey and Professor Carl Schiesser from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology at The University of Melbourne teamed up with Professor Michael [...]

Sugar & Corn Syrup: Equally Evil?

On April 13, 2011, Gary Taubes penned an 11-page article for The New York Times called Is Sugar Toxic? The article was the top read piece on the site for at least a few days that week. The focus was sugar and its components and the research of University of California at San Francisco School [...]

DIY Travel Beauty

I’m the last person to talk about the benefits about sugar, but I’m not talking about eating it here. Most beauty junkies are no stranger to the many sugar-based body scrubs on the market, the most of popular of which is the brown sugar scrub from Fresh. However, this is definitely something everyone can make [...]

Healthy Lunchbox Additions

The truth about healthy snacks for kids is that they often serve parents too. Parenthood usually leads to less adult time, which generally translates to less “partying,” and hence, food replaces boozes. While it is quite easy to gain weight from drinking too much, snacking too often and consuming high-calorie snacks can also result in [...]

Entrepreneur Profile: Little Duck Organics

A recovery from the worst recession in about seven decades may not seem like the ideal time to start a new food business, but Zak Normandin forged ahead. With a Just Do It kind of attitude, the New Hampshire-based professional and co-founder of design house Redwood Concepts started an organic dried fruits business called Little [...]

Starbucks: A LEED Store, Happy Hour & Custom Drinks

Though the country may still suffer from nearly 10% unemployment, we have begun a recovery and so has Starbucks. Late last month, the company announced that its SoHo, NYC, store on Spring Street is registered for LEED certification as part of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Volume chrome://foxytunes-public/content/signatures/signature-button.pngCertification pilot program. The design is a blend [...]

Ben & Jerry’s To Go Fair Trade

Ben & Jerry’s has just given us one more reason to indulge in our favorite alternative to sex: ice cream. OK, we’d always choose the grind over any food, so long as he knows what he is doing, but ice cream is available at every corner deli and pretty soon, it will be available guilt-free. So [...]

Duane Reade Pushes DeLish

The creation of yet another snack line may seem insignificant, but while the lot of well-educated and privileged people believe that simply teaching people to cook will end obesity, the truth is that we must wage a war against the widespread overuse of corn syrup and salt. This became clear when I realized that adding [...]

Viva Cuba What: Lively music with soul is what you’ll get on this double-disc set paying tribute to the music of Cuba.

The Dirt:Castro, refugees, Communism and sugar are the common modern characteristics of modern Cuba, but others may argue the lack of modernization has kept much of the art community intact. While the freedom of the people has been stifled for too long, the mixture of Spanish and African cultures in this isolated Caribbean island nation [...]

Back To SchoolThe Healthy LunchboxWhat: This sparkling drink is a healthy alternative to regular juice and soda for kids on their way to a sugar addition by way of the ubiquitous corn syrup.

The Dirt:Fall brings both reality and the return to school, and with it, school lunches, sitcom previews, film and fashion festivals, overall, more trends. Or at least that’s what marketers and retailers want you to think. This season, we encourage parents and kids to just say no– no drugs, no to corn syrup and no [...]

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