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Robert Lustig: The Man Who Believes Sugar is Poison

posted by janrinok on Wednesday August 27 2014, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the sweets-for-my-sweet,-sugar-for-my-honey-The-Drifters-1961 dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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 ?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:35PM (#86404)

    [If] you avoid dying in the bubonic plague or [of] cholera, thank you civil engineers

    Cholera? OK. (Water-borne.) [google.com]

    How so with the rat-borne pestilence?
    ...and if our ancestors hadn't been so damned superstitious, they wouldn't have killed off nearly all the cats in Europe (the standard "familiar" of a "witch"), and perhaps the vermin problem wouldn't have happened in the first place.

    -- gewg_

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:32PM

    by VLM (445) on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:32PM (#86758)

    "How so with the rat-borne pestilence?"

    At least outside the "urban areas" we have trash collection rather than tossing trash in the streets (which feeds the rats) and it goes to a sanitary landfill which is not an oxymoron if you consider how they could be...

    In my little subdivision I'm not sure where rats would live, what they'd eat.