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How former Coronation Street star Tupele Dorgu beat her sugar addiction

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ACTRESS Tupele Dorgu freely admits that nothing was off limits when it came to feeding her craving for sugar.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tupele would hardly ever drink water before she joined the program</td></tr>
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“Among my friends and family, I was always known as the one who always wanted a biscuit.</div>
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On set I was always asking, ‘Have you got any chocolate?’” laughs the 38-year-old actress, best known for her role as the loud-mouthed machinist Kelly Crabtree in Coronation Street.</div>
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But in recent months Tupele, who lives in Manchester with her businessman husband Mark, 46, began to feel her sweet tooth was starting to get out of hand.</div>
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“I’d put on a little bit of weight and was finding hard to lose. I just kept putting more on,” she says.</div>
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“I was never the type to eat three square meals a day. I substituted lunch with a cake and a coffee.</div>
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“I never said, ‘I shouldn’t have that’. I always incorporated sugar wherever I could and it was the thing I looked forward to. I’d always have dessert and I always took cake round to friends’ houses. I hadn’t really addressed what I now know was an addiction.”</div>
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Tupele’s dietary habits are by no means unusual. A report by the government agency Public Health England (PHE) published in October announced that as a nation “we are eating too much sugar and it is bad for our health”.</div>
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Studies show that having a high-sugar diet (and consequently becoming obese) is linked to Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.</div>
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It is also thought that one in 20 cancers are linked to being overweight. In the UK nearly two-thirds of men and more than half of women are either overweight or obese.</div>
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PHE says obesity is “the public health crisis of our time” costing the NHS £5billion a year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tupele Dorgu is joined by a host of big names and big appetites on the show</td></tr>
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It is advocating a sugar tax that it says could work alongside other controls, including a ban on advertising unhealthy foods during family TV shows.</div>
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Government guidelines state the average adult should consume no more than 30g (the equivalent of around six teaspoonfuls) of added sugar per day while children between and the ages of seven and 10 should be eating no more than 24g of added sugar and no more than 19g for four to six-year-olds.</div>
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Added sugars refers the stuff that has been added to food and drink to sweeten it rather than those occurring naturally in fruit and veg or plain yogurts.</div>
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To put this into perspective, a typical 330ml can of fizzy pop contains around 35g of sugar.</div>
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By last summer, Tupele, who is 5ft 9in, weighed 10st 11b, which she says was the biggest she had ever been.</div>
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“Things were starting to get out of hand,” she admits. So when she was asked if she would consider taking part in a new reality show for ITV called Sugar Free Farm, she decided to give it a go.</div>
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The premise for the three-part series, which was filmed in September last year, was to find out how the six famous faces who took part would cope when they had to live without added sugar in their food for two weeks.</div>
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<section class="text-description">During the dietary experiment, Tupele and her fellow celebs – musical theatre star Jane McDonald, comedian Rory McGrath, The Chase quiz master Mark Labbett, TOWIE’s James “Arg” Argent and dancer and West End star Jennifer Ellison – would live and work on a country farm in Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire, in return for their share of healthy, wholesome food.</section><section class="text-description">Although Tupele was keen to change her habits and shake off her sugar addiction, she admits she was nervous about the prospect of having no control over what she was eating.</section><section class="text-description">“I didn’t want to be hungry or given food I didn’t want to eat,” she explains.</section><section class="text-description">“There’s nothing worse than being really hungry and then someone gives you something you don’t like.</section><section class="text-description">“All the meals were designed for us each day, I knew there wouldn’t be a choice. You couldn’t just go to the fridge and have what you wanted.”</section><section class="text-description">On the farm, the six celebrities were split into pairs and given tasks that were swapped over every two or three days.</section><section class="text-description">They were either given farm jobs including milking, feeding the animals, gathering eggs, clearing out barns or cultivating the garden, or they would be set to work in the farm kitchen and given recipes for the next day using the farm’s fresh, organic sugar-free ingredients.</section><section class="pull-quote on-right"><blockquote class="nointellitxt ctx_blocked" id="nointellitxt">
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">“The routine was tough at first but I found I began to get up naturally at around 7am – as the time went on it got easier and I was jumping out of bed,” says Tupele.</section><section class="text-description">“The farm had everything we needed. They made everything including cheese and cured meats. There were loads of different greens, too, such as chard, kale and spinach. From the beetroot and berries to the nuts and seeds, everything was organic, hand-reared and tasted amazing.”</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">Although she took to cleaning the hen coop like a natural, one of Tupele’s first real challenges was giving up the sugar-laden drinks she loved.</section><section class="text-description">“I don’t like water,” she says. “I’ve never been someone who can drink it by the gallon, even if I’m running. I always drank juice, which is loaded with sugar, When they told me I couldn’t have it on the farm, I panicked. I thought that I was going to die of dehydration but I got around it by putting a squeeze of lime or lemon in the water instead.”</section><section class="text-description">In the first couple of days she suffered sugar withdrawal headaches which made her feel tired although she says the feeling soon passed.</section><section class="text-description">However some of her fellow celebrity contestants struggled with the regime. Former Brookside actress Jennifer Ellison, who before the show had been drinking up to eight cans of cola a day, suffered such debilitating withdrawal symptoms that medics had to be called in to treat her.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">But Tupele says: “I think it was Mark who actually found it the toughest as he eats a lot. He’s a big guy so he’s used to having big meals. There were occasions where he cheated a little bit."</section><section class="text-description">“Arg and Mark probably struggled the most – they found it more challenging as it’s very different to what they did normally.</section><section class="text-description">“But everyone began to embrace things. They celebrated with me when I finished my first glass of water.”</section><section class="text-description">On leaving the farm, Tupele was determined to keep reaping the benefits of her new diet and has since lost over a stone.</section><section class="text-description">“I haven’t had any cake since we wrapped filming in September,” she says. “I can have a cappuccino without sugar now – I never thought I’d get to that stage. And if I do have a drink, I choose a vodka soda which has no sugar in it.”</section><section class="text-description">Husband Mark, she says, could not be happier with his wife’s new diet.</section><section class="text-description">“He was worried about me before I went in because of all the sugar but now I cook sugar-free stuff which we both enjoy,” she says.</section><section class="text-description">“We fill up on vegetables, a nice piece of meat and sweet potato fries. I’d feel bad now if I ate a whole piece of cheesecake.”</section><section class="text-description">Determined to stay on track, Tupele has even launched her own blog sugarfreebabeblog.wordpress.com containing guilt-free recipes.</section><section class="text-description">“I found that it’s possible to cut out sugar even after being addicted to it and thinking it was the best thing in the world,” she says.</section><section class="text-description">“It really has changed my life.”</section><section class="text-description"><em>? Sugar Free Farm starts tonight, 8pm, on ITV.</em></section><script async src="//
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How former Coronation Street star Tupele Dorgu beat her sugar addiction

ACTRESS Tupele Dorgu freely admits that nothing was off limits when it came to feeding her craving for sugar. Tupele would hardl...

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THIS is why sweeteners just won’t suffice as a substitute to sugar, according to research.</h3>
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Scientists have revealed why it’s so tough to quit a sugar habit - and it goes beyond having a sweet tooth.</div>
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Sugary treats activate the reward part of the brain associated with sweetness and the desire for calories. </div>
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It’s the brain’s need for calories and not sweetness making us crave sugar, found the study.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sugar craving: It's all to do with our yearning for calories, says the study</td></tr>
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The team wanted to explore if the two rewards - sweetness and calories - activated the same parts of the brain, and so fed mice a sugar solution with calories and zero-calorie sweetener. </div>
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They discovered the sweet taste and nutrition (including calories) were processed in different part of the brands. </div>
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Surprisingly, the brain’s desire for calories overrode the desire for a sweet treat. </div>
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In fact, when the scientists made the sugary drink taste bitter, the mice still consumed more of it than the sweeter-tasting calorie-free substitute.</div>
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Senior author Dr Ivan de Araujo from Yale University said: “If the brain is given the choice between pleasant taste and no energy, or unpleasant taste and energy, the brain picks energy.</div>
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“We show that this area [of the brain] basically commands the behaviour of the animal and allows the animal to disregard any aversions in order to prioritise energy-seeking.”</div>
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With the combination of calories and reward, sugar may prove too hard to resist.</div>
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Dr Araujo added: “Artificial sweeteners basically produce a weaker response in this reward system compared to sugars.” </div>
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The author hopes the discovery could help encourage new ideas for curbing excess sugar intake.</div>
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He said humans have a modern food environment being monitored by an old brain - the part that says all calories are good calories.</div>
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RESEARCHERS claim to have found a single, foolproof way to stop children consuming dangerous levels of sugar – by putting cigarette packet-style warnings on labels.</h2>
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Researchers have found health warnings, such as highlighting that too much sugar increases the risk of diabetes, has powerful effect on whether parents purchase sugar-sweetened beverages for their children.</div>
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They claim 75 per cent of people would support sugar-sweetened beverage warning labels on containers.</div>
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Researchers at Penn Medicine said regardless of a parent’s level of education, nutrition labels indicating the dangers of high sugar content made the parent significantly less likely to buy the sugary product.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">60 per cent of parents in the groups exposed to health warning labels avoided buying the sugary drink</td></tr>
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Specifically, labels that warned of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay were the ones most likely to encourage parents to put the beverage back on the shelf - but the researchers found simply the presence of a label was enough of a deterrence.</div>
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Haleh Moravej , Senior Lecturer of Nutritional Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, explains that whilst scare tactics are one strategy to tackle the issue of childhood obesity, it only offers us one piece of a complicated puzzle.</div>
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She said: “Obesity is a combination of several factors such as lifestyle, psychological, diet and activity that are contributing to the children’s growing waistlines. We need to create healthy environments and healthy food choices for adults and children.</div>
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“Maybe we could think of creative tactics rather than scare tactics. We could be marking the sugar calories and how long it takes to burn them in a creative clear visible place and in that way change can be more meaningful and long lasting as well as educational.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nutrition labelling could be a tactic in beating childhood obesity</td></tr>
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In the study, 60 per cent of parents in the groups exposed to health warning labels avoided buying the sugary drinks, compared to 40 per cent of the parents who looked at drinks without any nutrition labels.</div>
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With obesity levels on the rise and the rising evidence about the danger of sugar, the study’s lead author Dr Christina Roberto an assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at Penn Medicine mentioned this research has come at a very important time.</div>
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She said: “In light of the childhood obesity epidemic and studies suggesting that more than half of children under the age of 11 drink sugar-sweetened beverages on a daily basis, there is a growing concern about the health effects associated with consumption of these beverages.</div>
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"Regardless of the specific wording, results show that adding health warning labels to SSBs may be an important and impactful way to educate parents about the potential health risks associated with regular consumption of these beverages, and encourage them to make fewer of these purchases.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drinks, in particular, often contain many teaspoons of hidden sugar</td></tr>
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"The findings are in line with similar studies conducted on the effects of warning labels on tobacco products, which have been shown to increase consumer knowledge of health risks related to tobacco use, and encourage smoking cessation.</div>
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"We can now say that warning labels have the potential to educate parents and motivate behaviour change when it comes to purchasing SSBs, which could help gain support for bills requiring labels to be added to beverage containers.”</div>
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Just this week a study announced fizzy drinks may dangerously increase the amount of visceral fat around vital organs.</div>
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It also coincides with the pressure mounting on the UK government to impose a sugar tax in the midst of an obesity crisis.</div>
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A NEW campaign warning parents of hidden sugars in foods has been launched as bleak new findings reveal the shocking extent of childhood obesity.</div>
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The Change4Life campaign encourages parents to get “sugar smart” and take control of their children’s intake as the nation's obesity spirals out of control.</div>
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The campaign coincides with the revelations that children aged four to 10 consume the equivalent of more than 5,000 sugar cubes a year - around 22kg or the average weight of a five-year-old child.</div>
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Shocking new research also revealed that one fifth of four to five year-olds and a third of 10 to 11 year olds are overweight or obese.</div>
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In 2013, almost a third of five year-olds and almost half of eight year-olds had tooth decay – the most common reason for five to nine year-olds being admitted to hospital.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sugar crisis: children consume their bodyweight in sugar every year</td></tr>
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Children are now consuming dangerously excessive amounts of sugar – currently three times the new maximum daily amount – putting them at risk of serious health problems.</div>
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Overweight children are more likely to become overweight adults, making them more prone to a range of serious health risks, such as heart disease, some cancers and Type 2 diabetes. </div>
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There are now 2.5 million people suffering from Type 2 diabetes, 90 per cent of them overweight or obese.</div>
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Obesity costs the NHS £5.1 billion per year and is projected to rise to £9.7 billion by 2050, with wider costs to society estimated to reach £49.9 billion per year.</div>
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The people behind the Change4Life campaign have also launched a new Sugar Smart app to help parents see how much sugar there is in everyday food and drink. </div>
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The free app works by scanning the barcode of products and revealing the amount of total sugar contained in cubes and grams.</div>
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The campaign reveals the sugar content of everyday food and drink.</div>
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A chocolate bar contains six cubes of sugar, a small carton or pouch of juice drink contains over five cubes and there are nine sugar cubes in a can of cola, instantly taking children up to or over their recommended maximum for the day.</div>
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Singer and TV presenter Jamelia is supporting the campaign and starring in a series of Sugar Smart films from January. She said: “One of the trickiest challenges as a mum is trying to avoid sugar sneaking into my children’s diets. Supporting this new Change4Life campaign has opened my eyes to how much sugar is in the everyday food and drink we eat and drink. It’s so important to take control of the amount of sugar our kids are eating and act now. I’d recommend all parents download the Sugar Smart app to uncover sugar that’s in their everyday food and drink to make healthier choices when food shopping.”</div>
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Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist for Public Health England, added: “Children are having too much sugar, three times the maximum recommended amount. This can lead to painful tooth decay, weight gain and obesity, which can also affect children’s wellbeing as they are more likely to be bullied, have low self-esteem and miss school.</div>
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“Children aged five shouldn’t have more than 19 grams of sugar per day – that’s five cubes, but it’s very easy to have more. That’s why we want parents to be Sugar Smart. Our easy to use app will help parents see exactly where the sugar in their children’s diet is coming from, so they can make informed choices about what to cut down on.”</div>
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WE KNOW that chocolate and wine aren’t great for our insides, but these guilty pleasures may be wreaking havoc with your outsides too. </div>
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Stay out of the sun, drink plenty of water, apply a good face cream every night.</div>
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In the day and age that prizes an ‘ageless’ appearance, we’re bombarded with tips and tricks to help freeze the clock.</div>
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But it could all be for nothing if you’re not eating properly, according to the experts.</div>
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Unfortunately, what you may have already heard is true - a poor diet can cause wrinkles, a dull complexion and spots.</div>
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How exactly does this occur?</div>
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Toxins found in sugar, gluten and alcohol can all cause gut-inflammation, which in turn affects the skin.</div>
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Christine Bailey, Nutritional Therapist on behalf of The Harley Medical Group said: “We all long to have clear, glowing and vibrant skin.</div>
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"Great skin radiates health and vitality, boosts our self-confidence and often reflects a healthy body within.</div>
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<section class="text-description">“For many the impact of blemishes, blackheads, and scars runs more than skin deep. Contrary to popular belief, skin problems are not due to poor hygiene but results from a number of underlying imbalances within the body."</section><section class="text-description">Of course, we all struggle to maintain a ‘perfect’ diet and indulge in a Digestive or a glass of red from time-to-time.</section><section class="text-description">Thankfully, there are products that help to combat the most common side effects of sugar, diary, gluten and wine. </section><div style="text-align: justify;">
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But, as with many health ailments, prevention is the best cure.</div>
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Christine advises a holistic approach for best results. </div>
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She said: “By targeting these triggers with specific treatments, nutrition and lifestyle changes you can improve the appearance of your skin long term.” </div>
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A spoonful of sugar: Global diets are STILL getting sweeter despite health trends

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LOOKING after yourself has never been trendier, so why is our diet STILL all about the sugar?</div>
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Despite warnings, a report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal highlights that the global diet is getting sweeter. </div>
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Previous research has shown that consuming foods and beverages with added calorie filled sweeteners is linked to a whole host of ills - from increased risk of weight gain and heart disease to diabetes and stroke. </div>
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In the US, a massive 68 per cent of packaged foods and beverages in the USA contain calorific sweeteners, 74 per cent contain both caloric and low-calorie sweeteners and a mere five per cent are made with solely low-calorie sweeteners. </div>
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The added sugar comes from hundreds of different versions of sugar, all of which have the same equal health effect, says the paper’s author Professor Popkin.</div>
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Although the focus was on America, he predicts that the rest of the world will follow suit with the amount of sugar in their food and drinks.</div>
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The authors also discovered that sales of sugar-sweetened beverages around the world are increasing in terms of calories sold per day and volume sold per person.</div>
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While the latest data showed that, on average, people are consuming more sugary drinks and foods, consumption has been decreasing in countries with taxes on such products, such as Mexico, Finland, Hungary and France.</div>
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The researchers advise that sugar taxes, marketing controls and front-of-pack labelling are all important to reduce the public consumption of these sweet treats. </div>

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SUGAR TAX: MPs call for levy on soft drinks to tackle UK obesity crisis

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cross-party group of MPs have demanded a sugar tax be introduced</td></tr>
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A SUGAR tax must be introduced to curb Britain’s obesity crisis, a powerful cross-party group of MPs has demanded.</div>
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The ‘easy option’ of health education campaigns should not be relied on by the Government which should be much more ‘ambitious’ in its efforts to cut the number of fat people in the UK, a hard-hitting report says.</div>
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Slapping a 20 per cent surcharge on fizzy drinks and banning the advertising of unhealthy, sweet foods during family TV shows is the direct action needed, members of the Commons Health Select Committee have said.</div>
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However the finding puts the MPs at odds with Prime Minister David Cameron, and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt who do not agree with a sugar tax.</div>
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The group also called for smaller portion sizes, saying they are becoming “larger and larger”, for example the introduction of “bottomless cups” in restaurants.</div>
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Other recommendations include a ban on unhealthy food advertising before the 9pm watershed during TV programmes enjoyed by families, such as the X Factor.</div>
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Buy-one-get-one-free and other deals on unhealthy foods in supermarkets should also face “strong controls”, with an outright ban on supermarkets placing sweets and other less healthy foods at the ends of aisles and checkouts.</div>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">And the food industry should be warned that failure to drive down the amount of sugar or fat in their foods, would lead to enforced regulation.</section><section class="text-description">Treating obesity and the accompanying health problems such as diabetes costs the NHS £5.1bn every year.</section><section class="text-description">Latest figures show a third of 10 and 11-year-olds in England are overweight or obese, with soft drinks accounting for 29 per cent of sugar intake among children aged 11 to 18, and around 16 per cent for younger children.</section><section class="text-description">Chair of the committee, Dr Sarah Wollaston, a GP, said: “We believe that if the Government fails to act, the problem will become far worse. A full package of bold measures is required and should be implemented as soon as possible.</section><section class="text-description">“We believe that a sugary drinks tax should be included in these measures with all proceeds clearly directed to improving our children’s health.”</section><section class="text-description">Jamie Oliver-style warnings on the side of fizzy drinks showing the spoonfuls of sugar in each serving should be introduced and all taxes raised should be sent on preventing childhood obesity, she added.</section><section class="text-description">A coalition of almost 20 groups has demanded the 20 per cent levy including the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the British Heart Foundation, the British Medical Association, Cancer Research UK and the Faculty of Public Health.</section><section class="text-description">Kawther Hashem, nutritionist and researcher at the campaign group Action on Sugar, said: “Parents and children are currently drowning in a world full of aggressively marketed and promoted sugary foods and drinks.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"></section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Latest figures show that a third of 10/11 year-olds in England are overweight or obese</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description"></section><section class="text-description">“It is high time the Government took responsibility for the health of the nation and set sugar reduction targets and rules on all forms marketing and promotion of unhealthy foods and drinks.”</section><section class="text-description">Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, described the report as a “breath of fresh air”.</section><section class="text-description">He said: “If the Government follows this, we will be strides ahead in solving the obesity problem.”</section><section class="text-description">But Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “Taxing soft drinks is an assault on the poor that has never been shown to reduce obesity anywhere in the world.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver has been outspoken in favour of a sugar tax</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description">“It pushes up the cost of living and encourages people to buy budget brands from cheaper shops. This is exactly what happened when Denmark introduced its disastrous fat tax.</section><section class="text-description">“There is a large economic literature showing the negative consequences of introducing sin taxes and banning advertising.</section><section class="text-description">“Unfortunately, the Health Committee has decided to pay more attention to Jamie Oliver than to the evidence.”</section>

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A low-fat diet could lead to weight gain rather than the opposite, according to health experts</td></tr>
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A LOW-FAT DIET could lead to weight gain rather than the opposite, according to health experts. </div>
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For years, diets have dictated that fat is the enemy. </div>
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Subsequently, foods like cheese, whole milk and nuts are often feared and avoided. </div>
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But the prevailing medical and dietary advice may be failing us, according to health experts.</div>
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A cardiologist has revealed that low-fat foods have instead been doing ‘untold damage’. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For years, diets have dictated that fat is the enemy but sugar has been labelled a sweet poison</td></tr>
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Dr Aseem Malhorta believes we need to 'let fat be our medicine.'</div>
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Writing for Men’s Health, the medical professional says dietary advice to restrict fat back in the 1970s may have even helped to fuel the obesity epidemic unfolding today. </div>
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He makes a point of telling his patients to avoid ‘low fat’ labels.</div>
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Dr Aseem said: “Better instead, I tell (my patients) to embrace full fat dairy and other saturated fats within the context of a healthy eating plan.</div>
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“It’s an instruction that is sometimes greeted with open-mouthed astonishment.” </div>
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The cardiologist also tells his patients to ‘steer clear of anything that promise to reduce cholesterol.’</div>
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Dr Aseem’s revelation came after reading a paper called ‘The toxic truth about Sugar’ which he describes as an ‘eye-opener’.</div>
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He said: “The more i looked into, the more it became abundantly clear to me that it was sugar, not fat, which was causing so many of our problems.” </div>
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Dr Aseem’s research revealed that it is refined carbohydrates that are responsible for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity. </div>
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He said: “Obesity is not about how many calories we eat, but what we eat. </div>
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“Refined carbohydrates fuel the overproduction of insulin, which in turn promotes fat storage. In other words: it’s not calories from that themselves that are the problem.” </div>
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The doctor concludes: “The father of modern medicine Hippocrates once said, ‘let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. It’s now time we let 'fat' be that medicine.” </div>

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