sugar

Addicted To Sugar? This Doctor Says It's 'The New Tobacco'

Nutrition experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on sugar.

America's supply of sugar is shrinking because of a poor sugar beet harvest in the northern Midwest. As a result, the U.S. will import more sugar this year than it has in almost 40 years.

America Will Import More Sugar This Year Than It Has In 4 Decades

Dan Charles

America's supply of sugar is shrinking because of a poor sugar beet harvest in the northern Midwest. As a result, the U.S. will import more sugar this fiscal year than it has in almost 40 years.

A collection of brown and white sugar packets. (James Brooks/Flickr)

One More 'Case Against Sugar'

Still coming to grips with sugar. Author Gary Taubes says we're still in denial.

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

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

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.