Sugar

What seems like an obvious choice to lose weight doesn't look so obvious based on available data.

Artificial Sweeteners Don't Help People Lose Weight, Review Finds

9:47am July 17, 2017

by Katherine Hobson

It's easy to think that artificial sweeteners are a health win. But a review of research finds that there's no evidence they help people lose weight, and they may be associated with other problems.

My Food Struggle In Pictures: When What I Ate Made Me 'Good' Or 'Bad'

1:16pm May 07, 2017

For the writer and her sister, the family's tendency to talk about food choices in moral terms triggered an unhealthy obsession with eating and a skewed sense of self-worth.

An industry-funded study questions the evidence behind guidelines for daily sugar intake. Public health experts call the controversial findings an industry attempt to undermine scientific consensus.

How Much Is Too Much? New Study Casts Doubts On Sugar Guidelines

6:24pm December 19, 2016

by Allison Aubrey

An industry-funded study questions the evidence behind guidelines on daily sugar intake. Public health experts call the controversial findings an industry attempt to undermine scientific consensus.

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Fermin Domingo, 61, worked at HC&S for 40 years. He drove in the last truck hauler of sugar cane on the plantation's final day.

The Final Days Of Hawaiian Sugar

9:29pm December 17, 2016

by Molly Solomon

The sugar industry in Hawaii dominated the state's economy for over a century. But it has shrunk in recent years. Now, the last of the state's sugar mills has wrapped up its final harvest.

A molecular biologist is studying how excess sugar might alter brain chemistry, leading to overeating and eventually, obesity.

This Scientist Is Trying To Unravel What Sugar Does To The Brain

4:32pm October 04, 2016

by Joe Palca

Molecular biologist Monica Dus is studying fruit flies to understand how a high sugar diet affects the brain and leads to overeating and obesity. And she just won a big grant to dig deeper.

A newly discovered cache of internal documents reveals that the sugar industry downplayed the risks of sugar in the 1960s.

Health & Safety

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat

2:34pm September 13, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Documents show that in the '60s, the sugar industry funded Harvard researchers who, examining risk factors of heart disease, dismissed concerns about sugar and doubled down on the dangers of fat.

Is it sugar, or "evaporated cane juice"? The FDA says they're the same thing, folks.

Evaporated Cane Juice? Puh-leeze. Just Call It Sugar, FDA Says

2:24pm May 26, 2016

by Dan Charles

Companies cultivating a healthful image often list "evaporated cane juice" in their products' ingredients. But the FDA says it's really just sugar, and that's what food labels should call it.

Coming soon: The redesigned nutrition facts label will highlight added sugars in food. The label also will display calories per serving, and serving size, more prominently.

An 'Added Sugar' Label Is On The Way For Packaged Food

8:47pm May 20, 2016

by Dan Charles

The Food and Drug Administration has brushed aside industry objections and will require food labels to disclose how much sugar has been added to packaged food.

In the past two years, many food companies — including candy-makers — have decided to label their products as non-GMO. Because practically all sugar beets in the U.S. are genetically modified, those food products are now using sugar derived from sugar

As Big Candy Ditches GMOs, Sugar Beet Farmers Hit A Sour Patch

7:00pm May 12, 2016

by Dan Charles

As companies shun genetically modified ingredients, they're buying more sugar extracted from sugar cane rather than beets. Sugar beet farmers are thinking of going back to conventional beets.

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A sugar beet. This crop supplies about half of America's sugar.

The Environmental Cost Of Growing Food

7:30pm May 05, 2016

by Dan Charles

Economists are working on ways to put a price on the environmental damage of growing food. Take sugar: Half of what we eat comes from beets, half from cane. Each has an impact, in very different ways.

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