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Sugar: The Sweet DangerVideos

Natalie Castro, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, explains sugar stimulates our pleasure responses and our reward responses in our brain. "We have done PET scans and looked at brain activity when we are having sugar, and it responds just the same way as alcohol and cocaine or drugs." About sweets, she says the [...]

Sugar: The Sweet Danger

Food with Added SugarVideos

Natalie Castro, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, says the only way to know if you have made a good choice buying food is by reading the label. With the label you will be able to tell whether it is just sugar or added sugar. She says, for example, a cereal box that has […]

Food with Added Sugar

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