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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: 1) by arashi no garou on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:52PM
If its a fad, its a 200K year old fad which had great results.
Except it's not. [scientificamerican.com]
I'm not saying you're wrong about sugar and other processed foods; indeed, they are not healthy for us compared to natural or raw foods. But we aren't cave people. We've evolved over the years and adapted to advances in food processing, storage, and preparation. Finding the proper diet is a different process for each individual, no single diet plan is going to be as healthy for one person as it is for another. I'm sure the so-called paleo diet is helpful for people with certain metabolisms, but it's certainly not for everyone.