Reducing sugar intake can provide many surprising health benefits—from better skin to a lower risk of diabetes. “We’re talking potential improvements within days or weeks, not months or years.” ...

Lisa Futterman is a food, dining, spirits, beverage, and travel writer. She has cooked professionally for her entire career, teaching and creating curriculum and recipes for several home cooking ...

You’re probably used to seeing diet sodas made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose. But now there are fresh-sounding sodas with zero grams of sugar or no artificial sweeteners that ...

Another study is raising concern about the safety of the widely used sugar alcohol sweetener erythritol, a low-calorie sugar substitute found in “keto-friendly” foods, baked goods and candies.

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24) Friday closed down -0.23 (-1.18%), and Aug London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ24) closed down -5.80 (-1.05%). Sugar prices Friday extended this week's decline, with NY ...

It’s no secret that fizzy drinks – Coke, Lemonade, Fanta – aren’t exactly a health food. Yet, they’re something plenty of us drink on a regular basis, whether it’s as an afternoon pick-me-up or a ...

The safety of sugar substitutes is once again being called into question. Researchers led by the Cleveland Clinic linked the low-calorie sugar substitute xylitol to an increased risk of heart attack, ...

Hyman, MD, is a practicing family physician, an internationally recognized speaker, a best selling author, an educator, and an advocate in the fields of Functional Medicine, real food, nutrition, and ...

Brown sugar is a "granulated, refined sugar that comes from the same plant as white sugar," says Kate Zeratsky, RD, a registered dietitian nutritionist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. It gets its ...

I quit drinking alcohol during the summer of 2022. I'd realized that it had been dampening my mental health, and I was tired of the incessant anxiety and mood swings that came along with drinking. I ...