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What's accomplished what a boatload of doctors, thousands of parents and a sometimes reviled mayor of a very big city couldn't do? We're talking, of course, about stopping kids -- or even adults -- from buying sugary sodas.  And it's the price. Apparently the increase in price s for these drinks has gotten some people to stop.  According to Nancy Hellmich at USA Today, "Raising the cost of high-calorie beverages by a few cents — and highlighting calorie content in places where they are sold — decreases sales, a new study shows." Researchers at Harvard chose the cafeteria of a financial services company to do the study. Hellmich reports they increased the price of high-calorie beverages (those that contained 150 calories or more per container), mostly soda, lemonade, whole chocolate milk, and some juices, by one cent per ounce. She writes that the price of low-calorie beverages (45 to 149 calories) and zero-calorie beverages stayed the same. "So a...

My husband always grimaces when he sees babies sleeping with bottles in their mouths, especially if it's sugary juice. "They're going to ruin their teeth!" he mourns.  (I should mention he's a dentist.) But a new study is showing that a glass of milk after sugary cereals may go a long way in preventing cavities, according to a story at newswise.com. "Washing down sugary breakfast cereal with milk after eating reduces plaque acid levels and may prevent damage to tooth enamel that leads to cavities, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry," the Web site reports. That's because dry, ready-to-eat, sugar-added cereals combine refined sugar and starch, and "when those carbohydrates are consumed, bacteria in the dental plaque on tooth surfaces produce acids," newswise.com quotes Christine Wu, professor of pediatric dentistry and director of cariology, who served as principal investigator of the ...