Baron Sugar of Clapton, ne Alan Sugar, is a billionaire entrepreneur and the man who tells hopeful contestants "You're Fired!"
It is the sugar of the clothing world, sneaking into almost everything before you've even noticed it's in your shopping basket or around your waist.
The studies, one on mice and one on people, have identified two hormones that seem to fine-tune the perception of sweetness, and thus regulate the intake of sugar independently of the previously known mechanism of satiation that is located in the brain.
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The price of domestic sugar is going up, thanks to a recent federal district court ruling that threatens to severely limit the supply of genetically modified beet sugar, which accounts for some 95% of all planted sugar in the United States.
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If you were to start with a grain of sugar, he says, and chopped it up into ever smaller pieces and simply ended up with a tiny grain of sugar, that would be no big deal.
Today Roxas chairman emeritus of Roxas Holdings, nation's largest producer of raw sugar and second-largest refiner of raw sugar.
The coroner calculated that drinking 10 litres (17.5 pints) of Coke amounted to more than 1kg (2.2lb) of sugar and 970mg of caffeine, Television New Zealand (TVNZ) reports.
The Jimadores pick the agaves at 7-9 years of age and with a sugar content of 23-28%.
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Some people are resorting to barter: one Harare office-worker described the hours he spent exchanging 100 bags of sugar for 50 litres of paint.
Patients who develop diabetes mellitus most commonly have initial symptoms of increased thirst, increased urination and blurred vision due to high amounts of sugar in the fluids of the eye.
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Brazil, the largest exporter of sugar and ethanol, is the second-largest ethanol producer behind the U.S. If you want a piece of the sugar action, Brazil is the place to be.
The judge is too harassed to be grand, and I liked the sight of him wearily dipping a lump of sugar into his glass of tea, and clearly thinking, Spare me these folk.
To overcome the seasonality of the sugar business--mills tend to remain idle for six months after the crushing season--the Murkumbis modified the Munoli factory to start refining raw sugar once imports of the commodity were allowed in 2004.
Cuban economists had hoped for a sugar harvest of 3.8m tonnes this year, up from local estimates of 3.3m last year, but well below the glorious 7m tonne harvests of the 1980s, when Cuba was the world's biggest sugar exporter.
People spent almost 40% of their additional rupees on wheat, rice or sugar: costly and (in the case of sugar) not very nutritious.
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"All of the candy on the market contains sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, a form of sugar that doesn't digest well in the body, " says Armand Hammer (no relation to the late industrialist), president and chief executive of privately held Innovative Candy Concepts .
On rural roads, sugar-mill workers sit next to bags of beet sugar they have received in lieu of wages, hoping to barter their product for food or cash.
He plans to harvest about two tons of sugar kelp by the end of the winter season.
Eating of sugar was driven by drinking of tea, and sweetened tea had become the beverage of choice.
Past fields of sugar cane and a network of narrow irrigation ditches, a narrow pass leads to a flat area surrounded by hills.
Because it's not easy, to brew alcohol you need sugar, but the chains of sugar molecules that form cellulose are very tough to break.
Jack Bradley Cave has only 15 milligrams of carbon per liter of water in the rock, the equivalent of 15 grains of sugar dissolved in a liter of water.
These findings are not surprising in light of the growing body of evidence linking intake of sugar sweetened beverages -- of which soda makes up the largest percentage -- and diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity and high cholesterol.
When the video was over, half of each group was given a glass of lemonade with sugar in it and half was given a glass of lemonade with sugar substitute.
They also help reduce the traditionally high salt and sugar content of aeroplane meals.
What is a subsidy to protect the domestic sugar growers of the US?
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There are differences over the use of sugar in the north and centre of Europe to increase the oomph of wine in bad years.
Originally pejorative, the term Cocolo , which refers to the migrants working on the British sugar plantation of the island, is now used proudly.
"I took him outside and gave him a stern talking to, " says Amidor, who says she's not crazy about the sugar content of the chocolate-flavored drink.
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