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For years, smartwatch makers have promised to make our wrists the next frontier in health monitoring. Heart rate, ECGs, blood oxygen, sleep tracking, and body temperature have all found their way into modern wearables. Blood sugar is widely expected to be next

“Clean eating” has become a popular approach to healthy living, encouraging people to choose whole, minimally processed foods while limiting refined sugars, artificial additives and excess salt. Given the strong evidence linking excessive sugar consumption to obesity, type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases, some people have taken the idea to its logical extreme: eliminating…

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November 1, 2025 ByMaureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

Wearables used to be all about steps, workouts, and heart rate. Now, the next big race is much more personal: blood sugar

Since the first introduction of saccharin, an array of artificial and other non-nutritive (i.e., low-calorie or calorie-free) sweeteners have become ubiquitous in the US food supply. However, a growing body of research suggests that these compounds are not inert in the body and may be disrupting our metabolism. A new review and meta-analysisby researchers from the Food is…

SLEEP health is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of metabolic wellbeing, and new evidence suggests that blood sugar status and dietary composition play an important role in shaping how long and how well people sleep. An analysis of data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) spanning more than a decade provides new insight into the complex…

When 36-year-old Karan (name changed) walked into a clinic recently, he was carrying a thick folder of reports and a very specific concern. His fasting blood glucose was 111 mg/dL (normal is below 99 mg/dL) and HbA1c was 6.2 per cent (normal is below 5.7 per cent), placing him in the borderline diabetes or prediabetes…

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Sugar has a bittersweet reputation when it comes to health. Sugar occurs naturally in all foods that contain carbohydrates, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy. Consuming whole foods that contain natural sugar is okay; for example, plant foods also have high amounts of fiber, essential minerals, and antioxidants, and dairy foods contain protein and…