Sugar: The Bitter Truth

Fat doesn’t make you fat, fructose does. This medical fact is becoming painfully clear to the public, but there has yet to be a full-scale revolution against the corn and sugar lobby (and Big Food) to reject what all this cheap, easy to love, processed sugar has done to our collective health.

Click here to listen to Dr. Robert Lustig on NPR’s Science Friday yesterday, or if you have the time and interest (and you should!), watch and listen carefully to the lecture below. If you do, you’ll never pick up a can of soda the same way again.

Our Favorite Mexicans on Wake Up with the Wagners

ELV note: As usual, you’ll have to scroll through to the 34:20 minute mark to see us marveling over a molcajete this morning with Kim Wagner. Buen provecho!

For those not wanting to behold our well-fed visage, our top 5 Mexican restaurants are….

Los Molcajetes

Los Antojos (soon to be featured in Saveur magazine)

Mundo

Border Grill

Los Tacos

Honorable Mention: Tacos El Gordo (but the ordering process is just too confusing for most gringos, so we didn’t give it a shout out on Channel 3).