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18 stories for“how much sugar per day”

WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.

Sep 10, 2024

Nutrition

People With Diabetes Are Still Being Told to Avoid Fruit, and the Evidence Points the Other Way

Fruit contains sugar, so the advice writes itself and it is wrong. The relevant distinction is not sweet versus not sweet. It is whether the sugar is still inside a structure that has to be dismantled before it can be absorbed.

Aug 13, 2026

Nutrition

Eating the Same Meal in a Different Order Cut Post-Meal Glucose by More Than a Third

Identical food, identical calories, identical macronutrients. The only variable was what went in the mouth first, and glucose at sixty minutes fell by 36.7 per cent. It is the cheapest intervention in diabetes nutrition.

Aug 18, 2026

Nutrition

How to Read a Nutrition Label Without Falling for the Front of the Pack

Front-of-pack claims like 'low fat' or 'natural' are not lies, but they are not the whole story. Here is what to check instead.

Feb 14, 2024

Nutrition

Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat

Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.

May 13, 2026

Nutrition

A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point

Protein-enriched processed foods produced higher satiety hormones and lower calorie intake than normal-protein versions of the same products. It complicates a classification a lot of advice now rests on.

Aug 17, 2026

Nutrition

The Diabetic Diet Got a Rewrite: What Guidance Says Now

No more banned-food lists. Current diabetes nutrition guidance leans on carbohydrate quality and a simple divided plate, not counting or deprivation lists.

Sep 20, 2024

Nutrition

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

It has an authorised FDA health claim, which almost no supplement does, and meta-analyses behind it for cholesterol, blood glucose and constipation. One gel-forming property explains all three, and so does the way it goes wrong.

Aug 20, 2026

Nutrition

Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does

Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.

May 22, 2024

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Added Sugar Versus Intrinsic Sugar: What the Guidance Actually Says

People With Diabetes Are Still Being Told to Avoid Fruit, and the Evidence Points the Other Way

Eating the Same Meal in a Different Order Cut Post-Meal Glucose by More Than a Third

How to Read a Nutrition Label Without Falling for the Front of the Pack

Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat

A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point

The Diabetic Diet Got a Rewrite: What Guidance Says Now

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does

Results

Added Sugar Versus Intrinsic Sugar: What the Guidance Actually Says

People With Diabetes Are Still Being Told to Avoid Fruit, and the Evidence Points the Other Way

Eating the Same Meal in a Different Order Cut Post-Meal Glucose by More Than a Third

How to Read a Nutrition Label Without Falling for the Front of the Pack

Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat

A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point

The Diabetic Diet Got a Rewrite: What Guidance Says Now

Psyllium Husk Is the Dullest Thing in the Supplement Aisle and Almost the Only One That Works

Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does