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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 zafiro17 on Wednesday August 27 2014, @03:31PM
I read this article while eating a handful of candy. Tastes great!
One of the best things you can do to reduce your intake of sugar and artificial sweeteners is to get the hell out of the USA. Once you've done so, if you ever go back you notice even the bread tastes sweet. Many other countries have diets based on fruits and vegetables. The USA is definitely succumbing to the Rich Man lifestyle of health problems brought on by a diet too full of processed foods, sweeteners, fat and chemicals instead of good old beans-and-rice.
This guy is a great scientist. Changing lifestyles is hard though.
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