the average American consumed about six pounds of sugar per year. That number rose as the sugar beet industry grew and the U.S. signed an 1876 treaty with Hawaii. During Prohibition, soda surged ...

Some states want to block SNAP recipients from using benefits to buy sugary foods as part of the "make America healthy again" ...

Four states have said they will try to eliminate sugary products from food stamps programs, which may affect recipients of ...

Three GOP-led states are moving to strip unhealthy items from their food stamp programs that help low-income Americans afford groceries.  Arkansas became the first state Tuesday to submit a waiver ...

The Arkansas plan, which would take effect in July 2026, would exclude soda ... candy makers criticized the effort, saying that they narrowly target SNAP participants. Representatives for American ...

The government shouldn’t subsidize soda and candy, which have no nutritional benefit whatever.

Arkansas and Indiana on Tuesday became the first states to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow them to ban soda ...