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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, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:31PM
Honey? Huh-uh!
I'll make allowances for the possibility that I'm just brainwashed. Please, give some references regarding honey being equal to or worse than sugar. I simply cannot buy that without something to back it up.
A google search offers up many comparisons favorable to honey, https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=honey+calories+compared+to+sugar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t [google.com]
While honey actually has more calories than sugar, the calories in sugar is more readily stored as fat. The calories in honey are burnt up more easily, and far less likely to be stored as fat.
This PDF seems to summarize honey and sugar as well as anything else I've looked at: http://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1577.pdf [arizona.edu]
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