Karen Wagner, MS, RD, CSO, LDN

My Sugar Use Blog: Final Thoughts

Posted April 14th, 2014

I learned a lot from tracking my own sugar use intake and I would invite you to do the same!


My Sugar Use Blog: Week one!

Posted March 24th, 2014

I did my best to follow the advice that I give to patients and I tried to follow my normal pattern and just track what I normally eat. I rediscovered what I have known from previous attempts to monitor what I eat: it is rather time consuming and tedious to track what you eat! It […]


Karen Wagner, MS, RD, CSO, LDN

My Strange Affair with Sugar Continues

Posted March 17th, 2014

Last week we had a group of student volunteers that set up a fantastic display for National Nutrition Month.  A prominent part of the display was a visual demonstration of how much added sugars are in a variety of common drinks.


A Dietitian’s Strange Affair with Sugar

Posted June 28th, 2010

At least once a week, if not more, I find myself in the strange position of trying to convince someone to eat more sugar. It is not that I think that everyone should eat more sugar, it’s not that I think sugar is healthy, but the information regarding sugar and cancer gets so distorted by […]