Data - Social Costs of Sugar

A database of links to medical journal articles, and then general news articles, with regards to the growing body of evidence on how sugar is more addictive, more deadly and more socially costly than cocaine.

Sugar / Cocaine News Articles

• Scientists say that eliminating the sugar intake of the HIV virus will kill its growth
  - Toronto Sun, 31 May 2015


• Mars, the large candy manufacturer, supports labels for sugar added to food products
  - Huffington Post, 24 May 2015


• Five ways to kick your addiction to sugar
  - Newsmax, 19 May 2015


• The new food pyramid in Australia eliminates sugar
  - Quartz, 19 May 2015


• Curbing global sugar consumption
  - World Cancer Research Fund, 17 May 2015


• Junk food kills the bacteria that protect the human body against obesity, heart disease and cancer
  - The Telegraph, 10 May 2015


• Mars, the huge candy manufacturer, to support government recommendations to limit sugar intake, and to label candies with the amount of added sugar
  - CNN Money, 08 May 2015


• Panera Bread joins Nestle, Hersheys, Kraft and other food companies in removing high fructose corn syrup and other artificial additives
  - New York Times, 05 May 2015


• Three ways that sugar kills your libido
  - Yahoo Health, 05 May 2015


• Experiments conducted by Philip Morris with rats showed that adding sugar to cigarettes makes the nicotine more addictive
  - AIM Digital (Ar), 30 April 2015


• Diabetes rises with daily consumption of soda and daily consumption of diet soda
  - Los Angeles Times, 30 April 2015


• More evidence that links sugared drinks to diabetes
  - Diabetologia, 30 April 2015


• More evidence that links sugared drinks to diabetes
  - Forbes, 30 April 2015


• British medical journal reports that sugar is mostly to blame for the epidemic of obesity, and not a lack of exercise
  - The Telegraph, 22 April 2015


• U.S. Senator Marco Rubio attends fundraiser at the home of U.S. sugar cartel member, Pepe Fanjul Jr.
  - Crowley Political Report, 22 April 2015


• People suffering from stress become more addicted to sugar, with an increased risk for diabetes and obesity
  - J. Clin. Endo. Metab., 16 April 2015


• How to reduce the intake of deadly sugars in your diet
  - The Telegraph, 16 April 2015


• Consuming too much sugar in your diet, it damages your brain
  - Huffington Post, 06 April 2015


• Powerful sugar businessmen who are smuggling sugar across Kenyan borders are scaring both the police and intelligence agents
  - Standard Digital (KE), 28 March 2015


• 2014 registers the tenth straight year of declines in the consumption of soda products such as Coca Cola and Pepsi
  - Wall Street Journal, 26 March 2015


• Which white powder from South America is worse: sugar or cocaine?
  - The Spectator, 26 March 2015


• The stock portfolios of Warren Buffett are stuffed with "junk food" companies that are making him rich, and making everyone else sick
  - Reuters, 25 March 2015


• As sales of its sugary drinks are decreasing, Coca Cola decides to try to sell more sugary drinks
  - Wall Street Journal, 18 March 2015


• How the epidemic of obesity and diabetes, due to excess sugar consumption, poses a threat to global economic growth
  - Morgan Stanley, 18 March 2015


• World Health Organization to basically everyone: stop eating so much sugar
  - Washington Post, 05 March 2015


• Excess sugar in the blood exacerbates Alzheimer's disease
  - Nature Neuroscience, 02 March 2015


• Death by chocolate: the surge in diabetes in South Asia fueled by sugar
  - The Guardian, 02 March 2015


• The fruits with the most sugar: figs, grapes, mangos, pomegranates, cherries and banana
  - Daily Meal, 30 January 2015


• How the sugar cartel in the U.S. convinced the National Institutes of Health with lies, by arguing that sugary foods did not lead to tooth decay in children
  - Salon, 11 March 2015


• How the sugar cartel in the U.S. convinced the National Institutes of Health with lies, by arguing that sugary foods did not lead to tooth decay in children
  - Washington Post, 11 March 2015


• How the sugar cartel in the U.S. convinced the National Institutes of Health with lies, by arguing that sugary foods did not lead to tooth decay in children
  - Time, 10 March 2015


• How the sugar cartel in the U.S. convinced the National Institutes of Health with lies, by arguing that sugary foods did not lead to tooth decay in children
  - Science, 10 March 2015


• How Kellogg and its cereals lost the battle for the breakfast table, because Kellogg is too addicted to sugar and carbohydrates
  - Business Week, 26 February 2015


• The search for the perfect sugar substitute - allulose?
  - Newsweek, 22 February 2015


• Drinking Coca Cola or Pepsi, once a day, could raise risk of cancer due to caramel coloring
  - Medical News Today, 21 February 2015


• Soda industry to fight new dietary guidelines from the U.S. government that recommends consuming less sugar
  - The Verge, 20 February 2015


• Why does giving up sugar make us feel so depressed, similar to the withdrawal symptoms of an addictive drug?
  - The Daily Mail, 20 February 2015


• Sugar addiction is as hard to break as a drug addiction
  - Inquistir, 19 February 2015


• Tax on sugary foods is proposed by a U.S. committee to fight obesity
  - Bloomberg, 19 February 2015


• Nutrition committee in the U.S. recommends less sugar in diets, while allowing more fats and cholesterol
  - New York Times, 19 February 2015


• Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
  - U.S. Department of Health, 19 February 2015


• Is sugar worse than salt for increasing blood pressure?
  - Houston Chronicle, 19 February 2015


• The Lancet: six-part series on the continuing problems of global obesity
  - The Lancet, 18 February 2015


• Research confirms the strangehold that the sugar cartel has on science and public policy
  - Union of Concerned Scientists, 18 February 2015


• Research confirms the sugar cartel's strangehold on science and public policy
  - Think Progress, 18 February 2015


• Why do sugar levels keep rising in our breakfast foods?
  - The Guardian, 17 February 2015


• Nicaraguans demand action over illness that is killing thousands of sugar cane workers
  - The Guardian, 16 February 2015


• Michele Ferrero, richest drug trafficker of sugar in the world, due to products such as Nutella, dies at the age of 89
  - Time, 15 February 2015


• Warren Buffett - one of the biggest profiteers in the sugar cartel
  - Financial Times, 06 February 2015


• Fructose that is added to drinks and foods is identified as a major cause of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes
  - Medical News Today, 02 February 2015


• Are sugary drinks with added vitamins - a bad idea?
  - New York Times, 30 January 2015


• Dirty water in California is linked to obesity, as low-income families drink sugar-sweetened beverages as an alternative
  - Water Online, 29 January 2015


• Sugary drinks linked to earlier onset of menstrual periods
  - EurekAlert, 27 January 2015


• Fructose from corn syrup is more toxic than refined sugar
  - Epoch Times, 25 January 2015


• Coca growers in Peru demand management changes at the national government's coca business, ENACO
  - Diario Correo, 24 January 2015


• "Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism", and its dangers to the world
  - Berkeleyside, 22 January 2015


• Coca-Cola produced with stevia, even with 24 grams of sugar, just doesn't have a good taste
  - InForum, 21 January 2015


• A perfect sugar substitute would save lives and make billions. Why can't we produce one?
  - Forbes, 16 January 2015


• How Coca-Cola and Pepsi convinced us to pay more money ... for less of their sugary soda
  - Time, 15 January 2015


• Clara Alvarez, sociologist of coca in Colombia
  - RFI Espanol, 15 January 2015


• Is the pharmacuetical industry fighting reforms on blood sugar levels because it wants to sell too many diabetes drugs?
  - New York Times, 13 January 2015


• Artificial sweeteners have no proven nutritional value, according to government researchers in France
  - ANSES (France), 13 January 2015


• Is sugar more addictive than cocaine?
  - WBUR News, 07 January 2015


• Sugar is more addictive than cocaine and a serious epidemic
  - Examiner, 07 January 2015


• Sugar cartel bribes the U.S. Congress, and earns billions in extra profits
  - Reason, 06 January 2015


• Fructose from corn syrup more toxic than table sugar in female mice
  - Fox News, 06 January 2015


• Why a high sugar diet hurts your body
  - One Green Planet, 06 January 2015


• A specific sugar, Neu5Gc, found in red meat may be why eating meat can cause cancer
  - Daily Mail, 30 December 3014


• Nestle increases research funding to produce healthier foods that use less sugar
  - Financial Times, 26 December 2014


• End of year and holidays of sugar: it is everywhere, and it is addictive
  - New York Times, 23 December 2014


• Does food that is rich in fructose cause people to be hungry?
  - TechTimes, 12 December 2014


• Food addictions to sugar similar to cocaine and heroin in brain response
  - National Monitor, 12 December 2014


• Ten bad things that sugar is doing to your body
  - Yahoo News, 11 December 2014


• Sugar is worse than salt for pushing up blood pressure, according to new research
  - Telegraph (UK), 10 December 2014


• Fathers who have a diet high in sugar are more likely to have obese children
  - University Herald, 04 December 2014


• Hershey may stop using high fructose corn syrup in its chocolates, and instead use natural sugar
  - Chicago Tribue, 03 December 2014


• Coca Cola, a huge profiteer from sales of sugary drinks, to enter the high-end milk market in 2015, selling Fairlife milk, a milk that is higher in protein and lower in sugar
  - Business Week, 01 December 2014


• 500,000 new cases of cancer each year linked to obesity, which is caused in part by excess sugar consumption
  - CBC News, 26 November 2014


• Diets, that are low in fat and high in sugar, are dangerous
  - Wall Street OTC, 22 November 2014


• Eating lots of dietary fat does not lead to higher heart disease, unless a lot of sugar also is eaten
  - PLOS ONE, 21 November 2014


• Sugar doesn't just make you fat - it can also trigger depression, anxiety and stress
  - Daily Mail, 20 November 2014


• How badly is the United States addicted to sugar?
  - Telegraph, 17 November 2014


• People in Malaysia must reduce their intake of sugar by 80 percent
  - Astrowani, 15 November 2014


• Sugar isn't just making you fat - it's also making you sick
  - TakePart, 14 November 2014


• 350 million people suffer from diabetes, much due to sugar consumption
  - United Nations, 14 November 2014


• On World Diabetes Day, beating diabetes requires more than just reducing your sugar intake
  - Independent, 14 November 2014


• Medical school at the Univ. of California, San Francisco, launches web site on dangers of sugar
  - New York Times, 12 November 2014


• Can sugar give you stress?
  - Huffington Post, 11 November 2014


• Confessions of a doctor addicted to sugar
  - WBUR News, 10 November 2014


• Sweet poison: 10 ways that sugar is attacking your body
  - Arabian Business, 06 November 2014


• How early taste for sugar ruins the teeth of children
  - Independent, 31 October 2014


• Experts sound the alarm, as the number of cases of tuberculosis accelerate due to diabetes, which is much caused by sugar consumption
  - Fox News, 29 October 2014


• Is your child addicted to sugar?
  - Telegraph (UK), 24 October 2014


• Sugary soft drinks can age the body as much as smoking
  - Daily Mail, 20 October 2014


• Foods with lots of (added) sugar that don't even taste sweet
  - Huffingon Post, 17 October 2014


• Sugary soft drinks may be linked to accelerated aging of DNA
  - The Guardian, 16 October 2014


• Sales of energy drinks, with lots of sugar and caffeine, should be restricted as they pose a danger to children
  - Daily Mail, 14 October 2014/p>
• Fructose promotes obesity and diabetes, such as fructose added to sodas, according to a report from the Harvard Medical School
  - New York Times, 13 October 2014


• Sugar consumption in adolescence linked with memory problems
  - Epoch Times, 11 October 2014


• Sugar and fat in fast foods cause addiction similar to cocaine and heroin
  - WCPO Cincinnati, 10 October 2014


• Pepsi and Coke have lost 3% of their sales in Mexico, after Mexico started levying taxes on sugary drinks
  - RT News, 09 October 2014


• Soda drinkers in the U.S. are buying fewer SodaStream soda machines, as they continue to flee sugary drinks, even ones that they make at home
  - Wall Street Journal, 07 October 2014


• Soda makers (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper) have pledged to reduce the number of sugar calories being consumed by 20% within ten years
  - New York Times, 24 September 2014


• Studies show that sugar is more addicting than drugs such as cocaine and heroin
  - Raw Food World, 19 September 2014


• We must have taxes on sugar before Britain eats itself to death
  - Daily Mail, 18 September 2014


• Sugar cartel in Florida wants to turn 67 square miles into real estate projects, destroying efforts to restore the Everglades
  - Flagler Live, 17 September 2014


• Sugar cartel in Jamaica scams government out of $1 billion in taxes
  - Jamaica Observer, 17 September 2014


• Sugar is the only cause of tooth decay
  - Time, 16 September 2014


• Just HALF a can of Coke exceeds the new daily sugar guidelines backed by scientists
  - Daily Mail, 16 September 2014


• Sugar, not salt, causes high blood pressure
  - Express (UK), 14 September 2014


• Raw sugar is no better for you than refined sugar
  - Mother Jones, 08 September 2014


• Methylglyoxal, a metabolite of sugar, may disrupt benefits of 'good' HDL cholesterol
  - Food Navigator, 02 September 2014


• Sugar addiction is key contributor to heart disease, obesity and increased risk of cancer
  - Indian Express, 30 August 2014


• Dr. Robert Lustig, the man who believes that sugar is poison
  - The Guardian (UK), 24 August 2014


• Company in U.S. state of Washington to start selling soda infused with marijuana
  - WWLP News, 22 August 2014


• Next speaker of the Florida House of Representatives receives large amounts of money from sugar cartel, and now, secret hunting trips
  - Tampa Bay News, 17 August 2014


• Coca-Cola adopts venture-capital strategy, and with thirst for profits, buys 17% of Monster Beverge and its sugary fruit and energy drinks
  - The Street, 15 August 2014


• U.S. Department of Agriculture to protect U.S. sugar cartel in trade negotiations
  - AgWeek News, 11 August 2014


• How slavery and corporate profits turned sugar into a poison
  - Globe and Mail, 08 August 2014


• The biological argument against excessive consumption of sugar
  - Chemical & Engineering News, 04 August 2014


• Sickly sweet - fighting out addiction to sugar
  - Union Concerned Scientists, 01 August 2014


• Sugar cartel in Florida buys loyalty of Florida Governor Rick Scott for $534,000
  - Miami Herald, 31 July 2014


• More evidence that sugar may be bad for the brain
  - Forbes, 30 July 2014


• Sugary drinks may damage children's brains so badly that it affects their memories
  - Medical Daily, 29 July 2014


• Eggs don't cause heart attacks - sugar causes heart attacks
  - Huffington Post, 11 April 2014


• How the sugar cartel is using tactics of the tobacco cartel to lie about the dangers of sugar
  - Take Part, 20 July 2014


• Sugar cartel fights US FDA attempts to add "added sugar" labels to food products
  - Daily Beast, 19 July 2014


• Are you drinking dangerous amounts of sugar in your beverages?
  - Daily Meal, 18 July 2014


• How the sugar cartel conspires with politicians to steal tax dollars in the forms of unneeded subsidies
  - Heritage, 17 July 2014


• Panama spends $100 million per year treating health problems due to diabetes and people being overweight
  - Prensa, 12 July 2014


• School Nutrition Association in the U.S. lobbies against healthier school meals, with less sugar, after receiving millions of dollar in bribes from processed food companies
  - New York Times, 02 July 2014


• U.S. sugar cartel threatens health organizations, and buries science on unhealthy effects of sugar consumption
  - Mother Jones, 27 June 2014


• U.S. sugar cartel threatens health organizations, and buries science on unhealthy effects of sugar consumption
  - Newsweek, 27 June 2014


• U.S. sugar cartel threatens health organizations, and buries science on unhealthy effects of sugar consumption
  - Pacific Standard, 27 June 2014


• Experts say that a tax on foods with added sugar is needed to reduce childhood obesity
  - The Guardian, 22 June 2014


• Lawsuit alleges that Greek yogurt companies are trying to hide the amount of sugar in their products
  - NY Post, 19 June 2014


• Food industry's solution to obesity - more toxic, sugary food products to kill their customers
  - New York Times, 19 June 2014