Sweet nothings: New health guidelines from the World Health Organization advise people, particularly Americans and Europeans, to slash their sugar intake to about six to 12 teaspoons a day, less than what’s in a can of soda.
Maybe it is time to revise the current guidelines, which warn you’ve eaten too much sugar when you can no longer get your chubby little fingers around a can of soda.
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Step away from the doughnut: Drug dogs in Oregon, like Zoey, a Belgian Malinois in Bend, are in danger of losing their jobs with police departments because the marijuana they were trained to detect is now legal in the state.
All they need is a little retraining so they can alert the sugar police to the Twinkie hiding under the celery sticks in your lunch.
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Are those nuggets “free range”? McDonald’s announced that it will now use chickens raised without antibiotics and milk from cows not treated with artificial growth hormone.
Of course, this takes some of the “value” out of the value meal when you have to buy your antibiotics and growth hormones separately.
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