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That largely isn't a controversial opinion. "Less sugar" is basically standard medical advice.

It's not a conspiracy you don't see loads of research on it. It's already been done. It's bad for us. We know it.

It might be standard, but the entire food industry in the US is built on endocrine disruption caused by sugar, and something needs to be done about that, urgently or we will have $10T/yr in healthcare spending 20 years from now, instead of $4T/yr. All these discussions about sometimes tenuous links to this and that are akin to discussing the quality of cigarette paper when almost the entire population is addicted to smoking.

And yet…somehow some other issue always manages to capture the lion’s share of worry. Sugar gets a pass all the time.

Yes you acknowledge it’s bad. How long before you throw birthday cakes out the window?

This kind of makes me wonder who funds the studies, actually. Could be that it’s the sugar lobby. :-)

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