Added sugar isn't exactly a health food, but there's one major reason to opt for the real deal over those with artificial sweeteners or sugar alcohols.

Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultraprocessed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report.

Mike Lawler (R-NY), and Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing childhood obesity and diet-related chronic diseases.

A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new number two ...

Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines ...

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Cuts to funding and personnel at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endanger the public’s health and threaten to disrupt the development of lifesaving vaccines, said former CDC director ...

LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Swiss NGO Public Eye on Tuesday accused Nestle (NESN.S), opens new tab of double standards by alleging that the company sells infant cereal in Africa with higher sugar ...

BANGOR — Steven Cronk, 41, sleeps among a row of tattered, sun-bleached tents that cling to a small strip of land between this city’s rusting railroad tracks and the Penobscot River. He estimated that ...

If you're looking to cut back on sugar, you're probably not alone. Let's face it, most of us are probably eating too much of the sweet stuff — but the type of sugar you consume matters, too. While ...

New York City has added another warning to its restaurant menus — this time for sugar. A new symbol showing a white spoon inside a black triangle now appears on menus at chain restaurants across the ...