/oss/taxonomy/term/1177/all en /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-contributors/cancers-sweet-tooth <p>To the surprise of many, however, cancer cells are defective at producing the very fuel they need to grow and spread, but manage to overcome the innate “disability” and out-compete normal healthy cells? How?</p> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:29:44 +0000 Nancy Liu-Sullivan, PhD 8953 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-history/sweet-and-sticky-science-sugar <p>Sugar is sweet and sticky.  That’s a fact.  In fact, during the reign of Edward the Confessor in the early eleventh century, "ale tasters" were employed to check on the work of brewers.  They would test the ale by spilling some on a wooden seat and sitting on the spill in their leather breeches.  If they had difficulty getting up after a short time because their breeches stuck to the seat, they knew that the ale had been sugared.  Today we don't have to worry about such adulteration of our ale, and I think in any case we would have a hard time finding leather breeches.  But the stickiness o</p> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:31:20 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8944 at /oss /oss/article/food-health/hereditary-fructose-intolerance <p>Most of us can hardly wait to finish our dinner so that we can plunge into the dessert and satisfy our craving for sweets. We threaten to withhold dessert from our children until they polish off every last vestige of vegetables on their plate. But for about 1 in 20,000 people, this lust for sweets is a completely foreign concept, just the thought of sweetness can make them ill. They suffer from a disease known as hereditary fructose intolerance. When we use the word sugar in everyday language, we generally refer to the stuff we put into our coffee or tea.</p> Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:18:53 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2000 at /oss