Topped with a swirl of warm lemon curd, they're a tad sugary, a tad tart and altogether decadent.
Other solutions are more complex, but still cheap, such as injecting a sugary mixture into a water supply contaminated by hexavalent chromium to make it less toxic and less mobile underground.
Kahn, who was formerly the chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetic Association, said it seemed unrealistic to point consumers toward less-processed foods like fruits and vegetables because the intended audience of the Smart Choices program comprises those who might be choosing between a sugary cereal and a doughnut.
When followed by a sugary crepe, it made a mouthwatering meal for well under five dollars.
The poll showed 17% of New Yorkers say they regularly purchase a sugary beverage larger than 16 ounces when they eat out or attend a movie or sporting event.
Experts have claimed that sugary drinks are a leading cause of obesity.
For example, if an employee wants to smoke or eat a sugary diet, he or she can choose to do so.
Some Bulgarian families now even name their children after characters in such sugary epics as a 100-episode love story of Mehmet and Indji.
Opponents portray the regulation as government nagging that scapegoats sugary drinks for a multifaceted fat problem, and they say the restriction is unfairly narrow.
Reducing the high intake of sugary drinks is a laudable goal, but should it be a priority, and if so, is this the best way to pursue it?
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At Tuesday's board meeting, city officials said large, sugary drinks are a leading cause of the nation's obesity epidemic, and said their consumption is linked to heart disease and diabetes.
But I really get put out by people who, with all these problems in the world, spend so much time getting in a lather about things like a sugary Hostess cupcake one day, and then jumping on their soapbox to bemoan its extinction the next.
The Nurses Health Study which followed the health of close to 90, 000 women over two decades showed that women who had one or more servings a day of a sugary drink were twice as likely to develop Type II diabetes than those who stayed away from such beverages.
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Nowadays, most of us regard candy as a guilty pleasure, but during the Great Depression, sugary confections were marketed as a healthy and inexpensive source of nourishment.
Americans kept drinking more of the carbonated, sugary drink for about a decade.
Once there, they indulge in a big, sugary piece of funnel cake.
The anti-obesity effort to limit sales of sugary drinks was one of a number of ambitious public-health initiatives Mr. Bloomberg has launched since taking office in 2002.
If Bloomberg's ban goes into effect, fast food restaurants can easily game his policy by offering a regularly portioned sugary drink that will likely come with free refills.
The report justifies the tax with the same old mantra that obesity is increasing, soda consumption is increasing, government studies speculate that increasing the cost of sugary drinks would lead to a reduction in overweight, etc.
Conrad and Baucus wouldn't specify which additional tax hikes are gaining favor among lawmakers but said everything -- from raising taxes on sugary drinks and alcohol to a surtax on the wealthy -- remains on the table.
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But when it came to deaths associated with sugary drink consumption, the people with the least risk were people 65 and older in Japan: About 10 in a million people died from sugary drink-related causes.
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While the report makes a raft of recommendations, Prof Stephenson attacked sugary drinks for being "just water and sugar" and lambasted a culture where it was deemed acceptable to drink a litre of fizzy drink at the cinema.
However, the mayor's recent drive to ban the sale of large sugary drinks has been blocked by a court.
Long-term follow-up suggests a significant interaction between sugary beverage consumption and both the composite genetic predisposition and BMI itself.
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But there have been no authoritative research showing whether consuming sugary drinks is directly linked to a rise in obesity.
At best, videogames and DVDs geared to children may be able to complement other forms of learning--kind of like how sugary cereals can be part of a complete breakfast.
Three hours of cooking make a beet impressively luxuriant and sugary, but the dish is hard to finish.
Today the condition may affect 25% of all adults in America, a direct result of our sugary, fatty diets.
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