This report from DW explores the global addiction to sugar. It discusses how sugar impacts our health, the reasons behind its widespread consumption, and the challenges in reducing sugar intake.

Reducing sugar intake can sometimes lead to temporary detox or withdrawal symptoms. Some examples of sugar withdrawal symptoms are cravings, headaches, bloating, and irritability. Regularly eating ...

After all, in an era of skyrocketing obesity and chronic illness — not to mention government waste — why should taxpayers fund sugar addiction? And even setting the addictive nature aside ...

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Sugar addiction is as deleterious as being hooked on cocaine. A close relative, also a doctor by training, talking about her husband, a former alcoholic, mentioned, “So long as he does not drink ...

we are setting them up for sugar addiction and a higher lifetime risk of obesity and diabetes,” warns Nina Teicholz, author and founder of the Nutrition Coalition. “Already 38% of our children ...

Regular consumption of sugary drinks can cause your intestines to physically adapt to absorb more sugar, creating a “molecular addiction” that makes quitting difficult. Sugar in liquid form is ...

Your weight will stabilize. Sugar addiction is real. The more you eat, the more you crave, especially if you eat a lot of processed sugars found in fatty, fast foods, and high-carb foods. If you ...

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Science can’t decide if sugar is a genuine addiction or a guilty pleasure, and our ever-changing regulations seem guided more by politics than hard data. Let’s see whether sugar really deserves its ...