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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 xtronics on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:42PM
You seem to miss the problem that fructose containing sugars (like table sugar - sucrose and honey) spike ones trygly - switching between carbs (all glucose) and sugar usually about doubles trygly.
Sucrose is not a human food - wasn't affordable until after the 1600's and only dirt cheap (as HFCS) in the last decades.
Then there is the problem with sugar being a carbohydrate - If you are lucky, your doctor might know that carbohydrates in excess interfere with the excretion of sodium and sodium retention tends to cause high blood pressure.