Whether you’re trying to lose weight, manage your blood sugar levels or reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, you’ve probably heard the advice to focus on “good carbs.” But what exactly does ...

The No. 1 health and wellness goal shared by most patients is to lose weight! That has led to a lot of attention being paid to sugar. In fact, some people have decided to avoid all refined sugars with ...

Have you ever found yourself standing in the grocery store, reading a food label, and wondering, “Wait, what’s the difference between sugar versus carbs?” With so many nutrition terms being thrown ...

Balanced nutrition, emphasizing complex carbohydrates, fiber, and reduced added sugars, plays a critical role in breast ...

Glucose-galactose malabsorption (GGM) is a rare metabolic condition. It occurs when a genetic variation makes the body unable to properly absorb the simple sugars glucose and galactose. Sugars are the ...

While diets can certainly range from healthy and helpful to worrisome and even dangerous, they all have at least one thing in common: a focus on reductions and eliminations. Examples include the ...

New research may help close the nutrition gap between infant formula and human breast milk. The study shows how plants can be programmed to produce a diverse array of beneficial sugars found in human ...

Researchers have programmed the Nicotiana benthamiana plant, a close relative of tobacco, to produce prebiotic sugars found in human breast milk. Charles Andres via wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

In recent years, sugar has become a hot topic in discussions about health and wellness. It’s not surprising, given the increasing awareness of diet’s impact on overall health. But how does sugar ...

In a new study, scientists reprogrammed Nicotiana benthamiana plants to produce a diverse array of beneficial sugars that are found in breast milk, called human milk oligosaccharides. Worldwide, a ...