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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicSugar consumption

Topic: Sugar consumption

CBSE asks schools to establish ‘sugar boards’ to monitor & reduce sugar consumption among children

The move comes after the board’s decision to allow students with Type 1 diabetes to carry insulin pumps and glucometers into examination halls.

‘Sweetheart of food industry’ – Zero-calorie sweetener linked to strokes & heart attacks

A study by journal ‘Nature Medicine’ says people with existing risk factors for heart disease were twice as likely to be affected.

Sugar price hasn’t risen much in a decade and that isn’t healthy

Water-intensive surplus sugarcane production isn’t environmentally sustainable.

Sugar binge during lockdown, India to see consumption rebound by a million tons

India is among the top sugar consumer, which will see consumption rebound by as much as a million tons this season, according to experts

Indian sugar demand to be hurt by economic slowdown and health concerns

India’s growth is expected to slow to a six-year low in 2020, potentially threatening domestic sugar demand and leaving more supplies for exports.

It’s not your fault that you eat so much sugar

Sugar-related health risks are blamed on consumers, but they actually stem from a food industry bent on getting the most out of the cheapest ingredients.

America’s declining sugar consumption is worth celebrating

Few cities in US  have penalised sugar consumption with soft-drink taxes, while some food manufacturers have reformulated products to use less of the stuff.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.