hot-Dangerous Drink-and-Drug Interactions

Before you wash down medication with just any beverage, watch out; common drinks, from fruit juice to coffee, can lessen the effectiveness of certain drugs as well as pose serious health threats when combined with some prescriptions. Medical toxicologist Lesile Dye, MD, FACMT outlined the top alarming combos.
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what is drug ;
A drug is a substance which may have medicinal, intoxicating, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into a human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.
What is considered a drug rather than a food varies between cultures, and distinctions between drugs and foods and between kinds of drug are enshrined in laws which vary between jurisdictions and aim to restrict or prevent drug use. Even within a jurisdiction, however, the status of a substance may be uncertain or contested with respect to both whether it is a drug and how it should be classified if at all. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.^[3]
In pharmacology, a drug is "a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being."^[3] Drugs may be prescribed for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders.^[4]
The molecules of drugs are complex, and most of them consist of many hydrogen and carbon atoms, a few oxygen atoms, and one or a few nitrogen atoms. Drugs may also have no nitrogen atoms in it and many may have chlorine atoms in it, such as chloral hydrate.
Recreational drugs are chemical substances that affect the central nervous system, such as opioids or hallucinogens.^[4] They may be used for perceived beneficial effects on perception, consciousness, personality, and behavior.^[4][5] Some drugs can cause addiction and/or habituation.^[5]
Drugs are usually distinguished from endogenous biochemicals by being introduced from outside the organism.^{[citation needed]} For example, insulin is a hormone that is synthesized in the body; it is called a hormone when it is synthesized by the pancreas inside the body, but if it is introduced into the body from outside, it is called a drug.^{[citation needed]} Many natural substances, such as beers, wines, and psychoactive mushrooms, blur the line between food and recreational drugs, as when ingested they affect the functioning of both mind and body and some substances normally considered drugs such as DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) are actually produced by the human body in trace amounts.
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hot-Nyaris makan roti berperisa lipas

TELOK EMAS - Seorang pekerja sebuah syarikat swasta hampir termakan bangkai lipas selepas disangkanya kismis di dalam sekeping roti berjenama terkenal.

Zawiyah Abdul Rahman, 60, berkata, dia membeli roti berkenaan di sebuah pasar mini ketika dalam perjalanan ke tempat kerja, semalam.

Menurutnya, ketika kejadian dia sedang menikmati hidangan sarapan pagi di pejabatnya bersama beberapa rakan sekerja.

“Saya terkejut sebaik menyedari ‘kismis’ dalam roti berperisa coklat berkenaan adalah seekor lipas kerana rupanya yang seakan-akan sama.

“Saya sudah makan separuh daripada kepingan roti tersebut dan nasib baik saya cepat sedar kerana jika tidak, sudah tentu saya kenyang makan roti berperisa lipas,” katanya, semalam.

Zawiyah berkata, dia sering menjadikan roti tersebut untuk dinikmati ketika sarapan pagi dan itu adalah kejadian pertama dialaminya.

“Saya benar-benar serik dengan apa yang berlaku ini dan akan berhati-hati selepas ini.

“Saya juga kesal dengan sikap pengusaha roti yang mengabaikan aspek kebersihan sehingga berlakunya kejadian seumpama ini,” katanya.
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cool-titik-titik refleksologi pada kaki

hot-tips meningkatkan jumlah dan kualiti sperma

Belajar untuk berhenti merokok

Merokok  mempengaruhi kekurangan jumlah sperma. Berdasarkan kajian yang telah dijalankan menemui bahawa perokok memiliki jumlah sperma yang lebih sedikit berbanding lelaki yang tidak merokok.

Elak pakai seluar ketat

 

Seluar yang dipakai terlalu ketat secara tidak langsung mengganggu keselesaan testis untuk bernafas. Sekali gus ia menjadi faktor pendorong untuk mengurangkan jumlah sperma seseorang lelaki.

Pilih makanan yang baik dan seimbang

Makanan yang baik menjamin tubuh yang sihat. Begitu juga dengan pola pemakan yang perlu diambil bagi meningkatkan produksi sperma. Semuanya harus rendah lemak, tinggi kandungan protein dan banyakkan sayur-sayuran. Biar semuanya seimbang dan menyihatkan.

Rancang waktu untuk seks

Masalah sperma cair mungkin berlaku disebabkan oleh kekerapan ejakulasi. Ini kerana sperma akan berkurangan apabila hubungan intim dilakukan dalam tempoh waktu yang agak dekat.

Katakan tidak pada alkohol

Selain merokok, satu tabiat lagi yang perlu dihentikan ialah pengambilan alkohol. Ini kerana ia mampu menjejaskan fungsi hati sekali gus menyebabkan peningkatan estrogen dalam badan.

Kesan estrogen yang tinggi secara tidak langsung mempengaruhi produksi sperma. Dengan mudah, jumlah sperma akan berkurangan sekiranya anda masih tegar mengambil alkohol dalam kuantiti yang banyak dan kerap.

Selain itu elakkan dari mengambil dua makanan berikut :

1. Daging berlemak

Daging memang baik untuk membekalkan tenaga tetapi jika berlebihan, ia mengundang masalah kesihatan pada anda. Memakan daging dengan kuantiti yang banyak menyebabkan pengambilnya malas bergerak, agresif dan fikiran yang tidak tenang.

2. Makanan segera

Umum mengetahui, makanan segera mengandungi bahan kimia yang mampu merosakkan tahap kesihatan diri seseorang. Malah pengambilan terlalu kerap juga dikatakan boleh melemahkan sperma sekali gus mengakibatkan masalah kemandulan. Jadi cuba elakkan pengambilannya dan sediakan makanan yang sihat agar keluarga lebih bahagia.

hot-telur bertukar kepada warna biru

KERTEH – Sampel dua biji telur bertukar kepada warna biru pada bahagian putihnya diambil oleh Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Kemaman untuk proses analisis makmal semalam.
Pengerusi Kawasan Rukun Tetangga (KRT) Kampung Baru Kerteh, Mohd Yusof Abdul Aziz berharap hasil keputusan analisis yang dilakukan dapat merungkai misteri mengapa telur yang dimasak isterinya, Sharah Shahernie Shafie, 25, itu bertukar warna biru pada bahagian putih telurnya.
Menurutnya, apa yang pelik, keadaan telur yang bertukar kepada warna biru dalam kejadian Khamis lalu masih kekal pada keadaan asal, tidak sebagaimana kebiasaan telur lain yang akan berlendir jika sudah lama.
“Telur juga masih berbau seperti bau penyembur racun serangga. Baunya cukup kuat dan meloyakan,” katanya yang mengesyaki telur berkenaan tiruan atau disuntik bahan kimia.
Sinar Harian pada Jumaat lalu menyiarkan mengenai Mohd Yusof sekeluarga yang hilang selera makan selepas dua biji telur yang dimasak isterinya bertukar menjadi warna biru pada bahagian putih telurnya, dipercayai disebabkan ia telur tiruan.
Sejurus melihat keanehan pada dua telur tersebut Mohd Yusof segera memeriksa lapan lagi telur yang tinggal dan mendapati salah sebiji daripadanya berbentuk agak ganjil dengan saiznya lebih besar daripada telur lain.
Katanya, sejak penyiaran berita itu, dia turut dihujani panggilan telefon termasuk pada waktu malam daripada saudara mara dan rakan sekerja yang berminat untuk mengetahui mengenai keadaan telur itu.
“Diharap kes ini dapat diselesaikan pihak berkenaan kerana ramai yang tertanya-tanya mengapa telur tersebut berubah warna sedemikian kerana dikhuatiri ia boleh memudaratkan kesihatan pengguna,” katanya.
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hot-Rasa dada terbakar

KANGAR: “Dada saya seperti dibakar, malah hampir keseluruhan mulut serta tekak tiba-tiba menjadi panas kerana terminum cecair berkenaan,” kata Mohd Syazwan Abdul Rohim,17, selepas terminum pencair cat yang disangka air minuman ringan.
Kejadian dipercayai berlaku kira-kira jam 7 malam Isnin lalu, apabila Mohd Syazwan yang dahaga sebaik pulang dari bengkel sekolahnya di Arau di sini, mencapai satu botol di atas katilnya yang disangka minuman ringan lalu minum sebelum dadanya berasa panas.
Mohd Syazwan berkata, dia meneguk cecair berkenaan dua kali sebelum dada serta mulutnya tiba-tiba terasa panas dan sakit sehingga menyebabkannya berada dalam keadaan separuh sedar.

Menurutnya, ketika itu dia berasa begitu haus sebelum menyedari minuman yang diteguk itu adalah pencair cat
Dada saya terus terasa panas manakala mulut serta tekak berasa seperti terbakar akibat kesan cecair berkenaan sehingga saya menggelupur kesakitan.

“Saya cuba menjerit meminta pertolongan rakan, namun gagal kerana sukar bertutur akibat kesakitan.

“Nasib baik ada rakan ternampak lalu meminta bantuan dan saya ke rumah warden asrama sebelum dibawa ke Hospital Tuanku Fauziah (HTF) untuk rawatan,” katanya ketika ditemui di HTF di sini, semalam.
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Hot-China hospital disposes of live baby

Health authorities in south China said Friday they were investigating a hospital medical team for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive.

The probe is taking place at the Nanhai Red Cross Hospital in the Guangdong provincial city of Foshan where the incident occurred on October 26, the Nanhai district health bureau said in a statement faxed to AFP.

According to the statement, Liu Dongmei -- eight months pregnant -- had been rushed to the hospital with internal bleeding and stomach cramps.

She later had an emergency birth, but the baby was neither breathing nor crying after leaving the womb and its skin had turned purple, it said.

Believing it was dead, the medical team disposed of the child but did not follow proper hospital procedures, the statement added.

The Foshan News, a local website, reported that when Liu's sister-in-law asked to see the body around 30 minutes after birth, she was handed a yellow plastic bag containing the infant and found it was still alive.

"I opened the plastic bag and saw the baby's hands and feet moving, the stomach was going up and down and air bubbles were coming out of his mouth," the paper quoted her as saying.

She was further shocked when she saw the baby was a boy -- not a girl as the family had been told, it said.

According to the Foshan News, nurses had told the family the child was a girl in an effort to blunt the blow of its death.

In China, baby boys are often viewed as more precious than girls, as many families can have only one child as part of the nation's population policy and desire a male heir.

Following the discovery, the newborn was rushed to intensive care where he remains in a stable condition.

Officials at the hospital refused to comment on the incident when contacted by AFP.

China's healthcare system -- once widely praised for improving the health of millions -- is now panned as costly, underfunded and providing shoddy treatment, especially in poorer regions.

Liu and her husband are seeking to sue the hospital for 300,000 yuan ($45,000), the Beijing News said.

The head of the maternity ward, a doctor and two nurses have been suspended pending the results of the investigation, it added.

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Hot-Hukum makan sarang burung layang-layang

Dari sudut feqah, tiada apa-apa sebab yang mengharamkan makan sarang burung layang-layang. Kerana, ia diperbuat daripada liurnya, dan liurnya adalah suci. Maka kembali kepada kaedah asas syarak: Asal kepada sesuatu perkara adalah HALAL, kecuali ada nas yang mengharamnya.

dan kaedah yang lebih detail ialah: Asal kepada benda2 yang bermanfaat adalah HALAL, dan asal kepada benda yang memudatkan adalah HARAM.

Berdasar kaedah ini juga, sarang burung layang2 dihukum halal, kerana ia adalah makanan yg terbukti tidak membawa mudarat, malahan membawa manfaat kepada tubuh badan.

Firman Allah Taala: "Katakan: Tiada aku dapati dalam wahyu yang diwahyukan kepadaku sesuatu yang diharamkan keatas orang yang mahu memakannya, kecuali makanan itu ialah bangkai, darah yg mengalir, atau daging ****" (Al-An'aam: 145)

memakan sarang burung layang-layang maka Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Kebangsaan Bil. 8/79/2007 membuat keputusan sebagaimana berikut:
"Hukum memakan sarang burung layang-layang adalah harus"
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Tags: Walet|Sarang Walet|Sarang Burung Walet, Industri Sarang Burung Walit/hukumnya, Menjadi Jutawan Melalui Penternakan Burung Walet/hukumnya

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HOT-bahaya mee segera

Kalsium Sulfat: Kapur Paris.

Asid Tartarik: Bahan kimia yang digunakan dalam julap dan untuk memutihkan cermin. Lebih beracun berbanding 100% alkohol tulen.

Kalsium Oksida: Digunakan rawatan sisa buangan dan dalam racun serangga.

Tertiary Butylhydroxyquinone (TBHQ): Produk berasaskan petroleum; satu bentuk butane (cecair dalam pemetik api).
BHT: Risiko karsinogen dan kesan berbahaya kepada ginjal.

Propyl Gallate: Satu xenoestrogen (sebatian seperti hormon). Boleh memberikan kesan sampingan kepada pembiakan, perkembangan janin yang sihat dan menghalang pengeluaran sperma.

Pentasodium triphosphate: Bahan pencuci paling berkuasa (sering digunakan dalam bahan cuci), bahan samak untuk kulit binatang juga digunakan dalam pengeluaran kertas, penapisan petroleum, aplikasi lombong dan rawatan air.

Propylene Glycol: Pelarut sintetik yang dianggap racun neurologi. Digunakan untuk pembuatan bahan pendingin, antibeku automotif, cecair yang berfungsi dalam tekanan hidraulik dan sebagainya. Jumlah berlebihan yang diambil boleh membawa kepada kerosakan buah pinggang.

Polydimethylsiloxane: Digunakan dalam kanta sentuh, syampu (untuk menjadikan rambut berkilat dan licin), minyak pelincir dan jubin tahan panas.

Pewarna tiruan (contohnya: Sunset Yellow FCF dan Tartrazine): Menyumbang kepada hiperaktiviti dalam kalangan kanak-kanak dan mungkin turut menyumbang kepada gangguan visual dan pembelajaran serta kerosakan saraf yang mungkin menjadi penyebab kanser.

Rujukan : Akhbar Utusan Pengguna keluaran Nov-Dis 2010.

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cool- Breast cancer photographer makes women feel beautiful

(CNN) -- Nearly every day, Terri Shaver comes face to face with cancer and can't help but think about her life and how short it could be.

For more than four years, the 56-year-old photographer from Laingsburg, Michigan, has taken free portraits of people with terminal and life-threatening illnesses as part of the Oldham Project, the nonprofit she founded in 2008 after her husband's two sisters-in-law died from breast cancer.

Although the Oldham Project, named for the two sisters, provided photos for families and children, Shaver started Be Bold, Feel Beautiful, a campaign specifically aimed at women with cancer, in summer 2010.

"I'll never be the same," she said. "These women are already dealing with the choices of the things they want to accomplish or need to accomplish before their time here is over. They really see the things that are important."

The campaign began as a way to provide the women who lost their hair from cancer treatments photos in which they felt beautiful. Although she had already been taking photos of people with cancer, Shaver wanted to raise awareness, and from her extended family, knew what a powerful effect going bald had on women in particular.

"When they lose their hair, 99.9% of these women have said that they lose themselves," she said. "They lose their identity."

Shaver remembers one woman telling her that when her eyelashes and eyebrows fell out, she looked in the mirror and saw an alien. But when the women see their photos -- some somber and some lighthearted, posing with something significant to them -- they regain their self-image. Shaver said some have even told her that they stopped wearing their wigs after the session.

Since the campaign started in July 2010, Shaver has photographed about 100 women -- ages 20 to 82 -- who have had cancer, as well as partnering with a local spa to pamper them and try to make them feel gorgeous for a day. Although it began as a campaign planned to run until October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Shaver said the feedback from the women was overwhelming and she extended the campaign to be a permanent fixture of the Oldham Project.

"Your will has a lot to do with progress that you make when you're sick," Shaver said. "I firmly believe that if I can make women feel better about themselves, while they're undergoing this treatment and have no hair, their treatment will be much more successful."

Before starting a session, Shaver turns up the music in her studio and strives for an optimistic perspective, determined to make the day an uplifting experience for the woman, even though she knows this particular visit is likely a trip woven into a schedule of radiation treatments and countless doctor visits.

"You can't help putting yourself in these women's shoes as I talk to each and every one of them, thinking, 'What if that was me?'" Shaver said. "How would I react? How would I deal with that? Many times, I don't even have words."

If she didn't consciously take a more analytical approach to each woman's cancer, Shaver said, the project would be awful. It doesn't mean the emotions are absent, but Shaver, who used to be a nurse, knows she can't take on every burden she witnesses.

Toward the end of last fall when Be Bold, Feel Beautiful was in full swing, Shaver was scheduling sessions with up to 10 women a week and began to become physically and emotionally drained.

"I was sleeping three hours a night because I was thinking about the person I photographed yesterday or the woman I was going to," she said. "When you hear these people's stories, you spend a couple hours with them -- photographing them, interviewing them -- you become part of their lives."

She stepped back from updating the campaign's blog -- which was as often as she had a session -- and to her husband's relief, scheduled the portraits at a slower pace to give herself time.

Shaver said the only thing more difficult than a session is hearing the news that one of her photo subjects has died. The first was Denise Acker, 55, who died in August 2010 after fighting lung cancer, and was also the very first person to be photographed with Be Bold, Feel Beautiful. Shaver said five women have died since she began and it is devastating every time.

Dealing with the grief and looking mortality in the face has made Shaver live differently. She said she doesn't stress out about as many things because she has realized they simply don't matter. What gets her out of bed in the morning when she knows that the day's session will be tough is imagining that she has the ability to watch a woman overcome her insecurities and find peace in how she looks.

"It doesn't matter how bad my day is, I'll bet you their day is worse," Shaver said. "And I'm going to do all I can to make them look as good as I possibly can."

A little more than a year later, Shaver knows it sounds like an extraordinary statement, but she believes the ongoing campaign has the potential to save lives.

"If other women who are just newly diagnosed or haven't even been diagnosed yet see women like this who are strong, powerful, bold and feel good about themselves, they, too, will know that I can do this," she said. "They won't panic when they find a lump, they won't just stick their heads in the sand and hope it'll go away."

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in malaysia also have Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia (BCWA) was founded in 1986 by medical specialists who realised the need for  peer support for women with breast cancer. It is an independent tax-exempt voluntary organisation registered with the Registrar of Societies in Malaysia, and a member of the International Union against Cancer (UICC) and Reach to Recovery International (RRI) and MAKNA

hot-Indonesia's only female sex therapist goes online

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Zoya Amirin has come across every myth imaginable in her job as sex psychologist in Indonesia: An uncircumcised girl will become sex-crazed. Clove cigarettes increase virility. A gecko's saliva can cure AIDS.

Knowing such misinformation can ruin relationships and even lives, Amirin — the only woman certified in her field in the world's most populous Muslim nation — has decided to launch a weekly podcast to provide some frank, accurate talk about the bedroom.

Her 15-minute, debut episode of "In Bed with Zoya" will air on her website Thursday.

"People here really believe in myths ... that's my biggest challenge," said Amirin, adding she wants to make her show as cool as possible so people will tune in without feeling they're being talked down to.

"It's time to embrace our sexuality in a healthy way," she said, "and to be mature in our understanding."

Her job illustrates some of the changes taking place in Indonesia, which toppled its longtime dictator Gen. Suharto in a wave of pro-democracy street protests just over a decade ago.

The nation of 240 million remains socially conservative in most areas, including relationships, something old-style politicians are desperate to maintain. Yet these customs are coming under pressure from a more freewheeling approach to sex, in part due to increased wealth and more females living and working alone before marriage.

Nearly 40 percent of teens have had sex, a new survey shows, and the Internet has opened the gates to a subject long considered off-limits in public schools.

Bringing up the word "condom" could cost a teacher his job.

"The taboo is not against sex, but against making it public and formal," said Julia Suryakusuma, an Indonesian sociologist who often writes about human sexuality.

That point was hammered home by Education Minister Muhammad Nuh himself, after a video of a much-loved pop star having sex with two girlfriends made its way to YouTube, putting the country of the verge of sexual hysteria.

Asked whether it might be time to add sex ed to the curriculum, he said "No! ... I may be obsolete .... but I think this is something you should learn about naturally."

Young people have even less luck at home.

For most, bringing up the subject of sex with their parents is inconceivable.

"That would just be too embarrassing," said Dianita Permani, an 18-year-old high school student in the capital, Jakarta.

"I'd rather talk about it with my close friends ... look things up on the Internet, read vulgar novels," she says with a giggle. "Personally, I don't want to have sex until I get married. But it is everywhere. I'll just have to follow my instincts, I guess, and figure out for myself what's good or bad."

Amirin hopes people like Permani will turn to her as a credible and easily accessible source of information.

Her podcast, which will be co-hosted by television personality Chantal Della Concetta, who has drawn some controversy herself for racy lingerie pictures in a popular magazine, will at first be a frank conversation between two friends.

The first subject: Debunking sexual myths.

They include that putting a bead beneath a boy's foreskin will enhance his sexual pleasure, and that girls will be nymphomaniacs if they don't get circumcisions, which continue despite a 2006 ban. Folklore that gecko saliva could cure AIDS, in a country grappling with the fastest growing endemic in Asia, unleashed a wave of gecko hunting and a surge in prices for the reptiles a couple of years ago.

Eventually, the website will include a free online chat service.

Both women are ready for criticism.

Though most of Indonesia's 210 million Muslims are moderate, a hard-liner fringe has become more vocal and violent in recent years, attacking bars, transvestites and anything else deemed "blasphemous."

The hard-liners also have succeeded in influencing politicians who — afraid of being labeled unIslamic — pushed through a controversial anti-porn law, used to imprison Nazril "Ariel" Irham, the pop star, even though it appears his sexcapades were never intended for public viewing.

Amirin defended him at his trial, saying he did not show any signs of being an exhibitionist.

More recently, Jakarta Gov. Fauzi Bowo captured the conservative mood of the country's leaders when he responded to the gang-rape of two young women on a public minibus by blaming the victim. Wear a miniskirt, he said earlier this month, and you're practically asking for it.

Aside from a small protest in the capital, Bowo's comments barely made any waves.

Though Amirin's website marks the latest attempt at online sex education, it's certainly not the first.

Last year the National AIDS Commission launched an interactive Web page aimed at teens and young adults. Others have come and gone during the past decade.

Amirin hopes hers is here to stay,

"I want to change mindsets," she said. "It's about time everybody in Indonesia be more open-minded about sex."

source mynews

hot 6 Scary Side Effects of Sugar

"kempen kurangkan gula dalam makanan"

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There’s nothing sweet about how much sugar people consume every day. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the average adult in the United States takes in 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day, or a whopping 150 pounds a year, while teens pile in 34 teaspoons a day. That’s more than twice the amount of sugar we should be eating.

“The average American is basically overdosing on sugar,” says Connie Bennett, author of Sugar Shock!, who believes that the AHA’s estimates of sugar consumption are conservative, and it’s closer to 50 teaspoons of added sugar a day.

The amount is shocking, and the potential health effects of excess sugar consumption are even scarier. Mounting evidence suggests that flooding your system with the sweet stuff can play a role in obesity, heart disease, and cancer. It can also impact how you look or feel, doing damage to your skin or altering your mood.

Read on for the scoop on six scary effects of sugar. These findings may make you want to curb your sweet tooth for good.

Think you’ve got the smarts to spot hidden sugars? Take our sugar calorie quiz!
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