We all know – for we’ve heard it often enough – that sugar causes tooth decay (among a host of other health problems). That’s because it’s the preferred food of oral pathogens – bacteria such as S. mutans, fungi such as Candida and others. Their metabolic activity – eating, eliminating and multiplying – creates acidic […]
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One Less Sugar Experience
Long ago and far away, before Facebook, before blogs, before email…there was the office newsletter. Recently, we ran across some issues of the one we published back in the 1980s, which we called Bite-Sized Pieces. Re-reading these after so long, we thought it might be fun to occasionally bring back some of Dr. Glaros’ articles […]
What About Sugar Substitutes?
We got a lot of feedback on the sugar post we ran a while back, many people asking if artificial sweeteners are okay to use instead. In a word, not really. (Okay, that was two.) But it depends on what kind of sugar substitutes we’re talking about. On the one hand, you’ve got your […]
Sugar & the Modern Food Environment
Sugar has one thing going for it: It makes things taste good. And it’s a taste we’re born to prefer. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity. The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed […]