Word: sugar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chocolate-dipped strawberry as the quintessential, elegant petit four." The treat is even being adapted for the health conscious. Veganstore.com a website for vegan products, carries a line of organic chocolate truffles. Pure De-lite Truffles, a maker of low-carb truffles, claims that its products are not only sugar-free but also free of wax, preservatives and artificial flavors. You can eat these truffles and not feel like a pig. --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...between herself and her crippled party, pointing out that this year she voted with Bush 74% of the time. Both sides seized the low ground with attack ads: Republicans screeched that Landrieu voted for taxpayer-funded abortions, and Democrats chastised Terrell for not opposing Bush's plan to increase sugar imports from Mexico--a bad move in a sugar state like Louisiana...
Harvard Right to Life (HRL) has just launched a vicious campaign against Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday?...
...learned to ignore such carping. But in recent years, he seems to have taken it to heart. In his heartwarming Not One Less (1999) he deftly sweetened a story about the bitter plight of impoverished rural schoolchildren with lighthearted humor and an almost cloyingly cheerful ending. The dusting of sugar made it palatable to audiences and censors alike without weakening its searing social commentary. But at times his compromises have yielded less success. His last film, Happy Times, was originally conceived as a tale of laid-off workers struggling for dignity while submitting themselves to ever more degrading types...
...each week (about five handfuls) were 30% less likely to develop diabetes than women who rarely touched them. Five tablespoons of peanut butter reduced the risk 20%. What's the secret? It's fat--but the good kind. Nuts contain polyunsaturated fats that researchers suspect may help keep blood-sugar levels stable. The high levels of fiber and magnesium in nuts may have a similar effect. "Just about everything in nuts is healthy," says Frank Hu, the study's leader and a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. To get the most benefit, it's best...