Artificial sweeteners, like aspartame and xylitol, offer sweetness without the calories of sugar. But are they actually healthy for your heart and brain?

The blood sugar level or glycemia is the measure of glucose concentrated in the blood. The body tightly regulates blood glucose levels as a part of metabolic homeostasis. Regular testing is important ...

Recent studies suggest a connection between higher levels of erythritol — a popular sweetener — in the blood and an increased risk of vascular health issues, such as blood clotting, heart disease, and ...

Spikes in blood sugar after eating may be more dangerous for the brain than previously thought. In a massive genetic study, people with higher post-meal blood sugar had a much greater risk of ...

Every other household in India has at least one family member who has diabetes. This is the unfortunate reality of the times ...

Sugar is among the most popular villains in nutritional health conversations. But depending on the content you consume, you may have heard everything from “It’s harmless in moderation” to a suggestion ...

A large long-term study links the quality of carbohydrates, particularly glycaemic index (GI), to dementia risk.

Every year some 1.3 million Americans are diagnosed with adult-onset, or Type 2, diabetes, a pattern tied to the country's caloric overindulgence. Between 16 and 17 million people have Type 2 diabetes ...

The widely used sugar substitute sucralose may affect “key mechanisms” in the brain’s hypothalamus responsible for appetite regulation, a small randomized crossover trial suggested. Compared with a ...