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The Mystery of Sugar: How Your Body Digests It and the Difference Between Simple Sugars and Complex Carbs.

July 9, 2014 By Julie Lanford MPH, RD, CSO, LDN

Check out my office for today. Not so shabby!! I'm on vacation, but doing a bit of writing today from our family cabin in Washington State. It's funny how "work" doesn't seem so hard when I'm doing it in such a beautiful location. As you may remember, my last article was to work through the fact vs. fiction of the "sugar feeds cancer" statement. If you missed it, here's the bottom line: there's nothing about the cancer that "feeds" on sugar more than any other cell in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Does Sugar Feed Cancer?, Hot Topics, Myth Busting Tagged With: absorption, cancer, carbohydrate, diet, digestion, nutrition, simple, sugar

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