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Why the truth about our sugar intake isn't as bad as we are told

5 June 2019

Read the headlines, and you would think we are eating more sugar than ever before – but the numbers reveal a very different story, says James Wong
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Genetic testing companies should not trade science for marketing

5 June 2019

Promising consumers genetically tailored holidays or music playlists misleads about what DNA tests can do, and often hides the motive of collecting lucrative data

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