Is sugar toxic?

[FiveSeven220]

http://nyti.ms/f8MeCV

Interesting article in today's New York Times Magazine which makes the point that both sugar and high fructose corn syrup cause obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and maybe even cancer.

 

[fufu]

I listened to the lecture that the article is referring too.

Lustig came off a bit radical in his views. He made several solid points, but would go on to make bodacious claims like (paraphrasing), "the sodium levels are so high in Coke that it is like drinking a pizza". He makes conspiracy claims against Coke saying that they have such concentrated sodium in their drinks so the consumers get thirstier after drinking the soda so they continue to drink it, bringing in more $$ for Coke.

There is ~30 mg of sodium in a can of Coke. That is hardly an obscenely great amount, it is in fact a very small amount. A large pizza is generally going to be around 2-3 grams of sodium (2000-3000 mg). Statements like that make me question his objectivity.

 

[ApexContestPrep]

There is ~30 mg of sodium in a can of Coke. That is hardly an obscenely great amount, it is in fact a very small amount. A large pizza is generally going to be around 2-3 grams of sodium (2000-3000 mg). Statements like that make me question his objectivity.

I know something this simple makes it lose credibility to me also.

 

[hardcore5000]

at the end of the day sugar is sugar. sugar has the tendency to be stored as fat even when it's "real" sugar.

 

[Built]

Fructose and glucose are very, very different carbohydrates. If appetite is hard to control, limit the hell out of your fructose consumption.