Many food activists and public health researchers are ready to pin a substantial portion of blame for the nation’s obesity epidemic on the skyrocketing consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, widely ...

The findings challenge the idea that sugar alcohols are always harmless and suggest that in high amounts they may still ...

Different sugars can have different metabolic effects, regardless of whether the sugars are consumed in calorically equal amounts. For example, fructose can be more harmful than glucose, raising the ...

Researchers have found there is no benefit in replacing fructose, the sugar most commonly blamed for obesity, with glucose in commercially prepared foods. Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have ...

July 5, 2007 -- Fructose, a sugar used for sweetening most soft drinks in the United States and elsewhere, has been linked to an increased atherogenic profile relative to glucose in a short-term study ...

Sweeteners such as aspartame, found in Equal packets, sucralose (Splenda), or sugar alcohols are often seen as healthier ...

New research reveals that sorbitol, a common sugar alcohol used in “low-calorie” foods, can behave much like fructose once ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." President Trump recently suggested Coca-Cola should swap out high-fructose corn syrup for cane sugar.

Fight sugar with sugar? This could be the implication of a new study on mice revealing that a natural sugar called trehalose prevents a diet high in fructose, or fruit sugar, from causing fatty liver ...