Science news articles about 'craving sweets'

Researchers have found that people with a common variant of a gene that helps the body handle sugar are more likely to crave foods like soda and cake.

... , the treatment did not block other "pleasure-seeking behaviors" -- in this case, craving sweets. Interference with these normal behaviors has been a problem with drugs developed for alcoholism ...

... obese persons are less sensitive to sweet taste and crave sweet foods more than lean people ... individuals in their sense of taste and the pleasure they derive from sweet foods. Hajnal and his Penn State ...