Carbohydrate Nutrition News


April 25, 2015 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Canadian Sugar Institute Encourages Canadians to seek Balanced Information Following Screening of Sugar Coated Documentary

In advance of the screening of Sugar Coated, a documentary airing at this year’s Hot Docs Festival, the Canadian Sugar Institute is inviting Canadians, and the media, to gather science based information on sugar in order to critically assess the content....

March 4, 2015 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

WHO 10% Free Sugars Guideline Based on Tooth Decay, not Obesity; Unchanged from the March 2014 Draft Guideline

The World Health Organization (WHO) final 10% guideline on free sugars intake continues to be based on evidence related to tooth decay, not overweight or obesity....

February 6, 2015 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Worldwide trends in sugars intake - stable or declining

Dietary intake of sugars is a controversial public health issue and published data relating to trends in sugars intake are relatively sparse....

December 17, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Editorial by Drs. Tom Wolever and John Sievenpiper "Revised food labeling in North America: the blind leading the blind?"

Earlier this year the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed several changes to the US Nutrition Facts panel, including the declaration of “Added Sugars”....

November 20, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Gibneyonfood "Sugar: Bad science - Great headlines"

An observational study by Pase et al. (1) assessing the link between fruit juice consumption and blood pressure was recently published in the journal Appetite, which suggested that frequent intake of fruit juice was associated with higher aortic blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease....

November 12, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Confusion regarding CSI school information session

The Canadian Sugar Institute is a non-profit association which maintains a scientific Nutrition Information Service staffed by qualified nutrition professionals....

September 10, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

CSI Comment on Heart & Stroke Foundation Position Statement on Sugar, Heart Disease and Stroke

Heart disease and stroke are serious public health concerns....

August 7, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

New US consumer study shows that "Added Sugars" labelling is confusing

A consumer research study was commissioned by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation and conducted in June and July 2014 by an independent research firm, Turner Research Network of Dunwoody, GA....

July 21, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Canadian Sugar Institute Supports Science-Based Information about Sugars on Food Labels

The Canadian Sugar Institute is supportive of the food labelling modernization initiative to improve consumer access to accurate labelling information, and Health Canada's objective to ensure the nutrition label is based on up-to-date scientific information and consumption habits....

June 23, 2014 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

CSI presented research at two National conferences in June 2014

The CSI Manager of Nutrition and Scientific Affairs, Dr. Flora Wang, participated in the research poster presentations at the Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Meeting in St. John's, NL (June 5-7)....