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Featured: Fast food stunts academic growth in kids

What happens when kids brains are starved of vital nutrients due to regular consumption of nutrient-depleted fast foods? Their brain suffers and academic performance goes down, according to a new study.

Posted on Sun, 5 Jul 09

Fruit juice as bad for your liver as alcohol?

Too many sweet foods such as soda and sweetened fruit juice may be as damaging to your liver as alcohol. A group have reported in The Journal of Nutrition that people who consume more dietary sources of sugars, such as soft drink and sweetened foods, have a high risk of fatty liver disease, the same liver disease that may affect regular drinkers and alcoholics [1].