Sugar industry

Both natural and processed sugars have 4 calories per gram, which can add up quickly.

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How the sugar industry influences the government when it comes to your cavities

A study came out that conflicted with nutritional dogma—it showed that eating breakfast actually causes weight gain. Immediately, people who disliked...

The prices of sugar have fallen by 14 per cent in the domestic market. The cost of wholesale sugar price has reduced from Sh4,700 to Sh5,500 for a 50-kg bag.

All sugar is not created equal.

Sugar companies sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast doubt on the hazards of sugar and to promote dietary fat as the culprit in heart disease, a report says.

We now know the many downsides of consuming sugar, but luckily there are a plethora of artificial sweeteners on the market.

In October, _The New York Times Magazine_ published its annual food issue, titled _Candy Makes the World Go Round_. Taking a global approach to the study of sweets, the cover featured a lollipop made by photographer Massimo Gammacurta. “[He] used a silicon mould to make a lollipop that looks like the earth and then photographed it, capturing its beautiful, sticky imperfections and bubbles,” Gail Bichler, the magazine’s design director, writes in the issue’s _Behind the Cover_ feature.

Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee

Newly discovered documents show that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to shape the debate around heart disease, sugar and fat.

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The popular artificial sweetener sucralose may be calorie-free, but two recent studies say that what’s hiding in those little Splenda packets may not be so benign.

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When the Food and Drug Administration announced a new template for nutrition labels, sugar manufacturers around the world rejoiced. Just kidding. Because the new template includes a long-overdue line for “added sugars,” the sugar industry is feeling a little, well, bitter. The FDA’s update is part of an ongoing effort to help Americans eat less sugar, which can be difficult to do considering how many aliases it hides under in ingredient lists.

The bad guy in "Fed Up," Katie Couric's new film on America's obesity epidemic, is...

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