What makes a chocolate-covered pretzel such an insanely tasty concoction? The English language is curiously lacking in a word for something that's both sugary and salty, but fortunately science has some answers.
Today in Everything You Like is Bad For You: non-sugar sweeteners, conventionally thought to curb sugar cravings by satiating sweet teeth without packing as many calories as the white stuff, are actually responsible for making you crave sugar more.
This unsettling ad campaign for First 5, a government-run "healthy kids" program, depicts a heavily (literally) photoshopped little girl drinking from a paper bag (?) of sugar. Ugh, so many problems here.
Here's the new Coca-Cola commercial, in which the brand brags about all it's doing to help people consume fewer calories: "Across our portfolio of over 650 beverages, we now offer over 180 low and no calorie choices," the narrator explains. If you like, you can also watch the new Coca-Cola commercial explaining how…
A new ad campaign for Sugar In The Raw gives new meaning to food porn: A chocolate cake is photographed like a crotch, purposely pixelated and called a "forbidden pleasure," with the words "enter here." Cupcakes with cherry "nipples" are censored, as though they are breasts. Sure, it's a cheeky play on the brand's name — Raw …
Filmmaker Casey Neistat made a little documentary for the New York Times about Mayor Bloomberg's infamous soda ban
The makers of high fructose corn syrup are no doubt crying sugar sweet tears into their sodas today over the news that the FDA has ruled that they cannot change the name of their product to "corn sugar." The Corn Refiners Association had asked to change the name because they said people had a "bad impression of HFCS…
As we all know, everything delicious is terrible for you. That is especially true of sweets, which are so tasty but also can cause nasty things like diabetes. Still, most of us are able to convince ourselves that eating sugar probably won't kill us. Sure, but you know what will happen if we keep stuffing our faces with …
Sick of hearing about sugar and all the ways it's wrecking our bodies? Too bad: Today there's yet another scary report about the hazards of sweetness. Today's New York Times goes inside an oral surgery operating room where a two-and-a-half year old is getting a root canal and some fillings, because 11 of his 20 baby…
There has been a lot of fretting lately about just how much sugar we're all consuming, but we are particularly freaked out about what our kids are eating. Well, now it turns out we're right to worry because they are eating a shit-ton of sugar every day. Why? Well, for the same reason we grown-ups do: because having…
Novelist Cheryl Strayed recently revealed that she's the heart-melting advice genius behind Dear Sugar, and she's also just come out with a book about her months-long solo hike up the West Coast. Vogue interviewed her for its March issue — and appears to have Photoshopped her beyond all recognition.
We all joke about being addicted to dessert or salt or various other vices, but in the case of ice cream, one new study has shown that it actually does share some characteristics with drugs. It sets off the pleasure centers of our brain in the same way, but it's also now clear that when you eat a lot of ice cream, you…
Sugar is delicious. It makes a bad day a little brighter; it makes food taste a little better; it makes cupcakes and pies. Sure, it may not be good for us, but why would we ever want to get rid of it? Well, we wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. At least that's what a new commentary published in the…
Here's a dispatch from the Department of Never Letting You Have Fun Ever: Regular consumption of sugary drinks causes heart damage, it doesn't matter if you're fat, skinny, trapezoid shaped, or Alex Mack. But you're going to keep drinking sweetened crap, aren't you?
Derek, 5, has just graduated from preschool
and his mother Donna wants to throw the most decadent and expensive candy-themed party ever — Derek's addiction to sweets be damned! Though her son clearly has an affinity for the sugary stuff, through the season premiere episode of TLC's Outrageous Kid Parties made it…
In a new study, girls who walked to school did better on tests than girls who got there by car. But lazy students take heart: caffeine and sugar also up test scores.
Genetics may explain part of why women like desserts more than men do — but it's pretty sweet when a man bucks this trend.
The results are in, and our "it" sweet poll
Our recent poll to determine the next "it" sweet
Pie has beaten cake
Those of us with large amounts of Valentine's candy to polish off will be glad to know that food expert Brian Wansink thinks a little sugar won't kill you. However, his words on sweetness touched off a bitter battle.
On last night's episode, one father likened his five-year-old daughter's pageant look to that of a hooker. Lexi, the hooker "lookalike" (hookalike?), is actually hooked on sugar, and her grandmother is not only an enabler, but her supplier.
Sugar is making a comeback as consumers look for healthier alternatives to foods containing high fructose corn syrup. The problem is, scientists say sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are equally bad for you.
• A woman from Florida who has cancer, arthritis and no insurance plans to sell an MRI of her brain taken in 2002 that she claims contains an image of the Virgin Mary. • A young woman from Louisiana was arrested for aggravated battery when she stabbed her older boyfriend after they got into an argument because he…
Listen, I really don't like getting on the I-told-you-so bandwagon, but I have been telling everyone I know that eliminating sugar from my diet totally changed my skin. (I cut out both the refined and unrefined stuff two years ago.) The compliments on my glowing visage have nothing to do with youth, I have long sworn,…
