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February 27, 2020
“Nancy Pelosi famously eats dark chocolate ice cream for breakfast. Courtney Gaine ’00 (CAHNR), ’05 Ph.D. has no quibble with that; she sometimes breaks her fast with a candy bar. “It’s always been okay to enjoy sugar in moderation,” she says.
She should know. The former co-captain of the UConn women’s basketball team got her degree in dietetics and went on to do postdoctoral work at UConn in nutrition, biochemistry, and exercise. She’s now president and CEO of The Sugar Association, which describes itself as “the scientific voice of the sugar industry.”
Read the full article here: https://magazine.uconn.edu/2020/02/20/candy-for-breakfast/
March 10, 2025
“The food industry, and sugar in particular, is dealing with an ever-changing environment that includes the impact of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and new government policies along with rising costs, tariffs and other challenges, including Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) efforts and the MAHA Caucus, according to speakers on a Nutrition Policies and Trends panel at […]
March 4, 2025
“Despite our exhaustive look through the 1912 record books (and mind you, we’ve been known to go as far as four pages into a Google search), we couldn’t find any invention or discovery that could claim a greater, more lasting impact than the one set to be celebrated nationwide on Thursday, March 6. That’s the […]
February 26, 2025
“The Make America Healthy Again movement that propelled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become Health and Human Services secretary will remain powerful because Republicans believe MAHA voters gave President Trump a margin of victory and they want MAHA votes in the 2026 midterm elections, Courtney Gaine, president and CEO of The Sugar Association, said here […]
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