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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 Aighearach on Thursday August 28 2014, @02:52AM
As a label-reader I have found that in local supermarkets (Oregon, USA) there is usually 1 or 2 regular-priced options for each food without HFCS, or other syrups, with only real sugar added.
For example ketchup, I can buy a Hunt's squeeze bottle with real sugar, and an "all natural" label, but even the other Hunt's all have HFCS. It is one of the cheapest, too, and tastes "normal."
Dry cereal there are 3 or 4, but there is also usually affordable store-brand shredded wheat that is only whole wheat and vitamin E (as a preservative.)
I've totally cut HFCS out of my diet, and I don't buy "premium" yuppy-food, and I haven't cut out any food categories. Just reading labels every time, and including a step of "choose what I want to eat" is all it takes. Most people don't really choose, they just grab whatever is similar to past things they bought, and just assume they are OK because they ate them before. Once you commit to choosing each time, then you're obligated to read the labels.