Of the hundreds of posts I wrote for Health Goes Strong in 2011, these ten seem to be the ones that resonate the most with readers. The subject matter ranges from the controversial, to must-know news, to quirky-sounding tidbits that may just be conventional wisdom one day.
Along with wheat and milk you can add sugar to the list of foods that landed in the hot seat this year. Though nobody has ever said that the white stuff is good for us, a growing chorus of experts (pediatric obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig the most famous) is now asserting that sugar (specficially fructose) is poison, and the main cause of our obesity epidemic and all of the health problems that come with it.