Sugar

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

Basically, everything you want to munch on is bad for you.

French researchers report diners underestimate how much sugar they typically add to an otherwise healthy dish of yogurt.

The scientific evidence for whether eating too much sugar causes Type 2 diabetes and other diseases.

Key parallels and important distinctions.

University of California–San Francisco researcher Cristin Kearns dropped a promising career at the Kaiser Foundation to dig through sugar industry archives for a smoking gun. With help from the man who brought down Big Tobacco, she’s now proving that Big Sugar steered scientists away from looking at the ingredient’s harmful effects.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Those sweets have a uniquely calming effect on stress, according to new research.

A not-so-sweet round-up of news and research on sugar companies.

A new analysis of sugar-industry documents finds companies worked with U.S. government researchers to soften recommendations against eating too much sugar.

Big Sugar is lying to win a battle for your bulge.

Our mouths have a secret sense—one that can detect sugar, even if there's no flavor.

New research finds that foods that would otherwise seem sufficiently sugary or salty come across as bland if we're eating while mentally distracted.

It will be if Robert Lustig has anything to say about it.