Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar can take a serious toll on your health, worsening conditions ranging from heart disease to cancer.

Sugar and Kids: The Toxic Truth 

From Fructose to Fat 

How Fructose Builds Belly Fat

NBC Nightly News

In a paper published in the journal “Nature,” researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, argue that sugar can lead to chronic diseases. NBC’s Nancy Snyderman reports.

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Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. This is a long one, but a good one on the subject. This is the YouTube video talked about in the above news report: Is Sugar Toxic?

Sugar: The Bitter Truth

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