If you had any residual doubt about ‘a calorie is not a calorie,’ this analysis should remove it. Every additional 150 calories per person per day barely raised diabetes prevalence. But if those 150 calories were instead from a can of soda, increase in diabetes rose sevenfold. Sugar is more dangerous than its calories. Sugar is a toxin. Plain and simple.
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Robert Lustig
Physician, Author of Fat Chance, Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains