A Massachusetts man’s fateful switch to licorice candy seems to have sent him to an early grave. In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors described how the man’s ...

They say too much of a good thing can be harmful, as was the case for one Massachusetts man whose love of black licorice ultimately cost him his life. In a case report recently detailed in the New ...

Who knew that the daily consumption of black licorice could be deadly? Doctors said a construction worker in Massachusetts ate a bag and a half of the candy every day for weeks. The habit ended up ...

A 54-year-old man who had been eating up to two large packages of candy a day died as a result of consuming too much licorice, according to a newly published study in The New England Journal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black licorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. On Sept. 23, 2020, doctors reported that ...

'Tis the season when we eat more candy then normal. You know I'm talking about Halloween candy where rationalizing our indulgence is easy. That said, the first time I heard that too much black ...

Because 2020 hasn’t provided enough extraordinary ways to die, the universe offers a grim reminder that eating too much licorice candy can be deadly. A 54-year-old construction worker died in ...

Who knew that the daily consumption of black licorice could be deadly? Doctors said a construction worker in Massachusetts ate a bag and a half of the candy every day for weeks. The habit ended up ...