Albemarle's physician may not have had as much success with his Spanish gold-seeking as his noble employer but the Atlantic slave trade, and the bartering and dealing in sugar and sugar-related products including the large-scale importing of cinchona bark - the source for quinine - and cacao, brought him comparable riches.
It should take a cue from its brethren in beer, and, indeed, from its own success in selling more water and fewer sugar-sweetened products.
Food companies respond to demands for healthier options by increasing choices, offering lower-calorie, lower-fat, and lower-sugar products.
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She started a store of her own many years ago selling handmade soaps, body oils, candles, lotions, sugar scrubs and other beauty products.
Despite the increase in the volume of meat, sugar, corn and soy products, these farming methods have resulted in health risks due to the increased use of antibiotics, pesticides and herbicides.
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These people almost universally went from a cooked food, meat-centered diet and gave up their meat, their dairy products and their refined sugar and switched to a raw food vegetarian diet, and by simply changing diets their bodies were able to cure their cancer.
The marble floors, ample seating and sugar-lemon scented Fresh bath products round out the luxury experience.
Between 2009 and 2011, Danone reformulated 20% of their products to reduce fat, salt and sugar.
The WHO plan calls for governments to force food companies to reduce the amount of sugar and fat they put in their products.
In a country that largely depends on food imports, the scarcity of dollars also led to shortages of products such as sugar and flour.
Schmidt elicited further detail from Al-Fadl on bin Laden's business activities, ranging from trade of agricultural products such as sugar and sesame seeds to various construction projects.
The company will spend the next year reassessing salt, fat and sugar content in every one of its products, says Gert W. Meijer, head of Unilever's health institute.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry noted that it sent rice, sugar, oil, fruit and dairy products on 121 trucks to Gaza on Sunday via the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings.
Danisco's CEO said in a statement Monday that DuPont's offer is the best that the company, which began as a sugar company and shifted in 2009 to products that range from food components to industrial enzymes, can expect.
After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).
They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.
It all depends on whether products like sugar, soya and cotton are included on the list.
Hit by low prices for sugar and nickel, Cuba's main products, the country's overall exports fell by 11% while imports grew by 6%.
The ABB unit, based in Sugar Land, Texas, provides products and services to many foreign state-owned electrical utilities.
Flo-Sun, for example, is now marketing products such as organically grown sugar and building its Florida Crystals brand.
In 2010, it expanded the list of products that it certifies beyond coffee, sugar and spices to include clothing.
The price of rice has doubled since January, while the cost of dairy products, soya beans, wheat and sugar have also surged in recent months.
The unit sells sugar substitute Splenda, Lactaid lactose-free milk products and dietary supplements.
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France introduced a soda tax last year and Hungary introduced a broader tax against products high in sugar, salt or fat.
In addition, people often overconsume no-sugar products because they assume that they must be healthier, and they end up taking in more calories than they need which leads to weight gain or prevents weight loss.
Some of the products sold as honey have been bulked up by sugar, water and corn syrup.
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But this is like saying the market has freely chosen to sweeten products using high fructose corn syrup while ignoring corn subsidies and sugar tariffs.
Wal-Mart is making well-deserved headlines today with its announcement, at a press conference joined by First Lady Michelle Obama, that it is committed to lowering sodium content by 25% and sugar by 10%, and eliminating many trans-fats completely, in its food products by 2015.
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Children sell sugar cane, produce, and potable water while women carry goods from market to market selling products along the way.
Many low-carb or no-sugar products still contain large amounts of saturated fat, which can raise bad cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease.
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