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One of the ways the body signals fullness after a meal involves satiety neurons located in the hypothalamus. Sugar seems to hijack that system. Horasiu Vasilescu / 500px/Getty Images hide caption
Room for dessert? Here's why your brain says yes to sugar
Computer graphics of a pink human brain looking forward to a plate with doughnuts. OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images hide caption
TASTE BUDDIES: No Sugarcoating How Sweet Affects The Brain
America's supply of sugar is shrinking because of a poor sugar beet harvest in the northern Midwest. As a result, the U.S. will import more sugar this year than it has in almost 40 years. Amarin Jitnathum/EyeEm/Getty Images hide caption
America Will Import More Sugar This Year Than It Has In 4 Decades
The Candylicious store in the Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates. John Stanmeyer for NPR hide caption
Yogurt selections like this one at a Los Angeles 365 by Whole Foods Market store are getting larger, but a new U.K. study warns that many contain lots of added sugar. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Sugar is considered critical for achieving a smooth and silky consistency in gelato. But new technology is aiming to achieve the same results with less (or no) sugar. Irina Marwan/Getty Images hide caption
A new report reveals how the industry influenced research in the 1960s to deflect concerns about the impact of sugar on health — including pulling the plug on a study it funded. Karen M. Romanko/Getty Images hide caption
What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us
A bottle of Misadventure Vodka, which is made out of disregarded baked goods like cake and bread. The southern California distillery reduces food waste while also creating premium vodka. Courtesy of Misadventure Vodka hide caption
The challenge comes at a time when many Americans are cutting back on sugar due to obesity and diabetes risks. Courtesy of The Coca-Cola Company hide caption
Coca-Cola Offers A Sweet Quest: A Million Bucks To Replace Sugar
Fruit concentrate is made by removing the water from fruit. It's an added ingredient in many food products, from orange juice to granola bars. Joy Ho for NPR hide caption
Stories about the harms of sugar have consumers wondering whether they should put the apple back on the shelf. Joy Ho for NPR hide caption
What seems like an obvious choice to lose weight doesn't look so obvious based on available data. Sharon Pruitt/Getty Images hide caption
How Much Is Too Much? New Study Casts Doubts On Sugar Guidelines
Fermin Domingo, 61, worked at HC&S for 40 years. He drove in the last truck hauler of sugar cane on the plantation's final day. Molly Solomon/Hawaii Public Radio hide caption
A molecular biologist is studying how excess sugar might alter brain chemistry, leading to overeating and eventually, obesity. Veronica Grech/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption
This Scientist Is Trying To Unravel What Sugar Does To The Brain
A newly discovered cache of internal documents reveals that the sugar industry downplayed the risks of sugar in the 1960s. Luis Ascui/Getty Images hide caption
Is it sugar, or "evaporated cane juice"? The FDA says they're the same thing, folks. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Coming soon: The redesigned nutrition facts label will highlight added sugars in food. The label also will display calories per serving, and serving size, more prominently. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption
In the past two years, many food companies — including candy-makers — have decided to label their products as non-GMO. Because practically all sugar beets in the U.S. are genetically modified, those food products are now using sugar derived from sugar cane. There is no genetically modified sugar cane. Tetra Images/Getty Images hide caption
As Big Candy Ditches GMOs, Sugar Beet Farmers Hit A Sour Patch
A sugar beet. This crop supplies about half of America's sugar. iStockphoto hide caption