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from the sweets-for-my-sweet,-sugar-for-my-honey-The-Drifters-1961 dept.
Lustig, the maverick scientist, has long argued that sugar is as harmful as cocaine or tobacco – and that the food industry has been adding too much of it to our meals for too long.
If you have any interest at all in diet, obesity, public health, diabetes, epidemiology, your own health or that of other people, you will probably be aware that sugar, not fat, is now considered the devil's food. Dr Robert Lustig's book, Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease ( http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/25/fat-chance-robert-lustig-review ), for all that it sounds like a Dan Brown novel, is the difference between vaguely knowing something is probably true, and being told it as a fact. Lustig has spent the past 16 years treating childhood obesity. His meta-analysis of the cutting-edge research on large-cohort studies of what sugar does to populations across the world, alongside his own clinical observations, has him credited with starting the war on sugar. When it reaches the enemy status of tobacco, it will be because of Lustig.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/24/robert-lustig-sugar-poison
I think moderation is the key. What do you think ?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kell on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:47PM
Diet's a long term thing and doing something stupid short term once in awhile is fine.
I like to say that a diet is a thing you have, not a thing you do. Healthy eating is a lifestyle decision, not a temporary arrangement. If someone has with the misconception that after you lose weight you can go back to 'normal' eating, then they're just going to end up where they started - afterall, that "normal" diet is what got them there in the first place!
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:53PM
"you can go back to 'normal' eating"
You can, but only like one meal a month. So I'll eat grandma's homemade birthday cake on my kids birthday. However, tastes change, and after getting used to real food, I feel like puking after eating that frosting, although I wouldn't tell grannie that.
There is one aspect of sugar being like a drug, that if you're off it long enough for the tolerance to drop, some "normal" American diet food is just too sugary gross to eat again.