Sugar is a bittersweet addition to your diet. While the instant gratification you have after consuming a sugary treat feels ...

People who enter sugar relationships - where younger partners provide companionship to older, wealthier individuals – may not ...

A surprising discovery about how brain cells handle sugar could shift how scientists approach dementia and Alzheimer’s ...

A clinical trial for semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, found that it improved blood sugar control in people with ...

Each sugar substitute has different chemical structures and needs to be considered separately, said Dr. Walter Willett, a nutrition researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Is sugar the new nicotine … or maybe just the current scapegoat for our collective confusion over what’s “healthy?” Science can’t decide if sugar is a genuine addiction or a guilty pleasure, and our ...

Kids today consume far more sugar than recommended, but the effects don’t stop in childhood. New research reveals surprising ways early sugar exposure shapes long-term health. SCIENCE ...

The science surrounding sugar cravings can actually be pretty complicated. That’s because they typically don’t have one single, easily identifiable cause. Rather, ...

It doesn't matter how full you are, you can always fit in a bite or two or three of pie and ice cream. Scientists say it has to due with special neurons in our brain that just can't get enough sugar.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ... The study, published October 31 in the journal Science, indicates that limiting sugar exposure in the 1,000 days post-conception ...

Science News talked with two experts about weekly insulin, what’s challenging when trying to mimic the body’s system for regulating blood sugar and what else would be helpful for people ...

This week's Short Wave news roundup covers harvesting drinking water from fog, what elephant seals reveal about fish populations in the deep ocean, and why there's always room for dessert.