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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 q.kontinuum on Thursday August 28 2014, @11:45AM
For the reference frame of the paleo diet according to the wiki link it depends, if these drying techniques were successfully applied to fruit or only to fish and meat, how far spread their usage was, and how extensive it was used. But generally, yes, since I brought the figure 10.000 years into this discussion and you exceed this time-frame, it is relevant.
Still, the 10.000 years time-frame from the wikipedia article seems to be intended to mark an order of magnitude rather than a accurate point in time, so I reserve the right to not fundamentally change my opinion ;-)
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(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday August 29 2014, @03:17AM
The ballpark is ~14k, though, since it's 12k B.C. and we're in 2k A.D. Anyway, a shame that there's no time-machine to check the facts ; )