CosBeauty Magazine #85
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia. In this issue: - The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation - Put an end to bad hair days - 24 hour makeup, products that last - Sex appeal - do you have it?
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia.
In this issue:
- The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation
- Put an end to bad hair days
- 24 hour makeup, products that last
- Sex appeal - do you have it?
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Should<br />
we quit<br />
sugar?<br />
Myth busting:<br />
raw vs white vs brown sugars<br />
Hopeful sugar lovers have ventured the suggestion that brown sugar or<br />
raw sugar might indeed by healthier than the super-refined white sugar<br />
seen on most coffee-shop tables. Unfortunately, their hopes are dashed.<br />
Although they go through slightly different processes, raw, white and<br />
brown sugar are derived from the same source and hold very little<br />
nutritional difference – ie, all are equally bad for you.<br />
Sugar crystals are made from the juice of sugar cane or sugar beet.<br />
The juice is filtered, evaporated, boiled – which produces molasses<br />
– centrifuged and dried to yield raw sugar. White, or refined sugar,<br />
undergoes further washing, bleaching, filtering, processing and drying.<br />
Brown sugar is created through the addition of molasses to refined<br />
white sugar.<br />
Certainly, the myriad of health<br />
problems associated with<br />
high sugar intake is enough to<br />
quieten anyone’s sugar cravings,<br />
but is it healthy to eliminate<br />
sugar from our diet completely?<br />
Sugar is found naturally in fruits,<br />
vegetables and dairy products,<br />
which means that to eradicate it<br />
completely from our diet would<br />
leave us with little other than<br />
meat and fats.<br />
‘I am quite comfortable with<br />
dietary sugars if they come from<br />
whole foods such as fresh fruits<br />
and vegetables, as the sugar<br />
is diluted with water, fibre and<br />
other nutrients,’ health expert<br />
Professor Kerin O’Dea from<br />
the Sansom Institute for Health<br />
Research told the ABC.<br />
As for added sugar, the<br />
alternative options – in the form<br />
of artificial sweeteners – are not<br />
necessarily any better for you.<br />
A recent study published in the<br />
journal Nature found artificial<br />
sweeteners interfere with gut<br />
bacteria, increasing the chances<br />
of obesity and diabetes.<br />
‘Our findings suggest that<br />
artificial sweeteners may<br />
have directly contributed<br />
to enhancing the exact<br />
epidemic that they themselves<br />
were intended to fight,’<br />
the researchers from the<br />
Department of Immunology<br />
at the Weizmann Institute of<br />
Science in Israel state.<br />
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