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Sugar as a toxin: Experts differ on its health effects

2013-09-12 07:49:27| Sugar Industry News

American eaters love a good villain. Diets that focus on one clear bad guy have gotten traction even as the bad guy has changed: fat, carbohydrates, animal products, cooked food, gluten. And now Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco, is adding sugar to the list. His book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease makes the case that sugar is almost single-handedly responsible for Americans' excess weight and the illnesses that go with it. Sugar is the biggest perpetrator of our current health crisis, says Lustig, blaming it for not just obesity and diabetes but also for insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, stroke, even cancer. Sugar is a toxin, he says. Pure and simple.

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