Sugar consumption has a significant impact on brain health, influencing everything from mood to cognitive function. Excess sugar intake has been linked to inflammation, memory issues, and an increased ...

Parents often stress about their kids’ sugar intake, but it can be hard to know how much is too much – or what to do about it. Glucose – a simple sugar that forms the basis of most carbohydrate-rich ...

Artificial sweeteners are widely found in American diets, marketed as low-calorie alternatives to sugar for weight management.

You’ve almost certainly heard some variant of the idea that sugar is toxic, deadly, or otherwise the worst possible thing for your overall and potentially your brain health. In truth, sugar is key to ...

While the artificial sweetener (found in diet soda and gum, for example) was linked to an average of 20% body fat reduction, ...

To think, act, and feel in any way, your brain requires access to large amounts of consistent energy. For most of us, that energy comes in the form of blood sugar (glucose), which is transported into ...

Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than scientists realized, opening the way to new treatments for conditions like ...

Experiencing simultaneous fat and sugar cravings is what makes dieting so challenging, researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia reported in a study published Thursday in the ...

The human sweet tooth is a force to be reckoned with. It’s estimated the average American adult consumes about 77 grams of sugary goodness a day, a cumulative 60 pounds over the course of a year.

New research has discovered neurons within the brain which detect and respond to changes in the level of sugar within the bloodstream. Understanding how this blood-sugar detection system works and how ...

Many people stop craving sugar over time and experts say this happens because the brain and gut slowly reset. As sugar intake ...