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Eighteen countries have tried a sugar tax. Does it work? Could we tax our way out of diabetes and obesity?  The price hike worked with controlling tobacco use and there's evidence that the sugar tax is working in countries like Mexico where the measure has...

Author: Houston, Mark C/Source: Journal of Restorative Medicine, Volume 2, Number 1, October 2013 , pp. 30-44(15) Mark C Houston, MD, MS, FACP, FAHA, FASH, FACN, FAARM* Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Director, Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology, 4230 Harding Road, Suite...

Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study published January 29th in the journal Cell reveals a reward-related neural circuit that specifically controls compulsive...