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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: 2) by Silentknyght on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:59PM

    by Silentknyght (1905) on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:59PM (#86460)

    Oh -- and that applies to all sweeteners, not just sugar. Cane sugar, beet sugar, honey, maple syrup, HFCS, saccharine, Sucralose...all are either metabolically indistinguishable from sugar or metabolically worse than sugar.

    Careful about making assertions about things your body can't actually metabolize. From wikipedia:

    Saccharin is believed to be an important discovery, especially for diabetics, as it goes directly through the human digestive system without being digested. Although saccharin has no food energy, it may trigger the release of insulin in humans and rats, presumably as a result of its taste, but this is not conclusive as the same study states "No statistically significant changes in plasma insulin were found."[4][5][6] This is similar for aspartame (another artificial sweetener).[7]

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