“I have struggled with food issues for decades,” Morning Joe host Mika Brezinzki wrote in her op-ed on a lifelong love affair with sweets. “If it has sugar in it, I love it.” Brezinski’s piece, ...

Chemically, sugars are simple carbohydrates, including glucose, fructose and sucrose, among others. They are naturally present in various foods, such as fruits, vegetables and dairy products, and they ...

Everyone has their own sugar cravings and their personal sugary weaknesses. For me, it's the pains aux raisins in the coffee shop around 3.30 p.m. For years, I’ve sat with a coffee, eating pâtisserie, ...

In the piece titled “My lifelong struggle with sugar,” the 51-year-old journalist and liberal political commentator got real about recognizing her disordered eating and the steps she’s taking to ...

Sugar is everywhere. It’s in practically every food we eat, from candified yogurt to the breakfast cereal we wash down with a flavor-of-the-month Frappuccino. Though we know it’s not good for us in ...

Sugar often gets compared to drugs like nicotine or cocaine in popular media, with claims that it "hooks" us and keeps us coming back for more. But is sugar truly addictive in the same way as those ...

A junk food addiction is a lot more like a drug addiction than researchers previously thought. They now claim sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine. Dr. Nicole Avena of the Icahn School of ...

It’s no secret that sugar is hard on your health. According to Harvard Health, the consequences of high sugar intake can increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. But unfortunately, the more ...

We've survived the stretch between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, when rich, sweet treats come at us non-stop. Now is the season of reform, when gym memberships, cleanse books and weight-loss plans ...

A friend and I were talking the other day about our addiction to sugar and fatty comfort foods (think cookies, cake, chocolate). We do so well for a while, and then somehow find ourselves back at it, ...

Experts are torn on the addictiveness of the sweet substance, but in the meantime, be sure you're consuming it minimally Harley Pasternak is a celebrity trainer and nutrition expert who has worked ...