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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: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:30PM
It pretty much did. Physically modern humans are not that different from what we were 100,000 years ago. Yes there have been some small changes in that time, like the amount of melanin in your skin and maybe some antigen proteins in your blood (some think blood types were caused by adaptations to local diet). But for the most part Humans have not significantly changed in well over 100,000 years. The thing that sets us apart is what we know, not what we are.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Thursday August 28 2014, @01:06PM
It seems like I remember reading an article, probably linked to from that other site that said the opposite. I thought I read that although outwardly people haven't changed much there actually seems to have been an acceleration of genetic change since the onset of civilization. Sorry, I haven't had enough caffeine to go find it. It does make sense though, we are living in a completely different environment, shouldn't we be adapting?