"Soft drinks and sugar-containing beverages are the low hanging fruit in public health today, " says Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, at Children's Hospital in Boston.

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She sat under a framed photograph of her holding her baby and pulled out a Baggie containing sugar-snap peas, which she began munching as we talked.

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Kirin, known largely for its beers, debuted its own sugar-free, dextrin-containing cola in Japan earlier this year.

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In September, Hungary will introduce a tax on pre-packaged foods containing high salt and sugar content, such as crisps and chocolates.

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We used special silicone molds produced by our collaborators at THeraject to create the microneedles containing a dried version of a live modified adenovirus-based candidate HIV vaccine in the sugar formulation.

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The HitClips product line centers on thumbnail-size microchips containing prerecorded music samples, mostly bubble-gummy singles by such teenybopper chart-toppers as Sugar Ray and Christina Aguilera.

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