Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. What does that have to do ...

One of the major differences between our industrial diets of today compared to even the recent agricultural past is the massive increase in the consumption of sugar. Tom Naughton's blog has some ...

The Western diet, which is rich in high-fructose (HF) foods and beverages, has been linked to adverse health outcomes, including neurodevelopmental disorders. In a study published in Nature, Wang et ...

The simplest explanations are often the most appealing, yet they are also often the most incomplete. For a long time, it seemed reasonable to treat all sugars as interchangeable parts of the same ...

There is much interest in the role of sweeteners such as table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup in obesity and metabolic disease. Both sweeteners consist of glucose and fructose, two ...

Researchers found that fructose and glucose affect hunger-related brain cells through different gut-brain pathways. In mice, fructose was much less effective than glucose at switching down neurons ...