In people with type 1 diabetes, adequate control of blood sugar over the long haul helps reduce the risk of diabetes-related eye and kidney disease, new data suggest. The findings stem from a look at 1,441 type 1 diabetic patients followed for roughly 9 years as part of the pivotal Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT). Join discussion...

A new study suggests that sugar may be as addictive as hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Researchers at Princeton studied binge eating and addiction in rats and found that when the animals ate large amounts of sugar there were chemical changes in the brain that mirrored the type that happen when addicts use drugs. Join discussion...