Is Sugar Toxic?

a_hanso tips an article by Gary Taubes in the NYTimes Magazine that evaluates claims from Dr. Robert Lustig's virally popular lecture on the negative effects of sugar on peoples' health. (YouTube video of the lecture.) Taubes discusses the science behind the claims and the odd willingness of people to accept Lustig's arguments without further inspection. Quoting: "When I set out to interview public health authorities and researchers for this article, they would often initiate the interview with some variation of the comment 'surely you’ve spoken to Robert Lustig,' not because Lustig has done any of the key research on sugar himself, which he hasn’t, but because he’s willing to insist publicly and unambiguously, when most researchers are not, that sugar is a toxic substance that people abuse. In Lustig’s view, sugar should be thought of, like cigarettes and alcohol, as something that’s killing us. This brings us to the salient question: Can sugar possibly be as bad as Lustig says it is?"

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High fructose corn syrup is slow acting poison. It

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Peasants typically consume high fructose corn syrup because they cannot afford real sugar. Look in urban areas in the USA and look at what is being put in grocery stores and what they are eating. High fructose corn syrup is in everything. High fructose corn syrup is being used as a form of population control on the masses. Unlike some other substances it kills slowly over a period of decades. It is a proven slow acting poison, studies conducted on rats prove that rats fed high fructose corn syrup tend to develop heart disease become diabetic and die.

Why do they want the urban poor to die from heart disease and diabetes? It may sound like a conspiracy theory but think about it. And then think about why they also want to get rid of unions, cut people off social security, get rid of univeral healthcare, and cut spending on programs which save lives. The peasant poor in the USA are like cattle being culled, oh you expect corporations to treat human poor animals better than cattle? Look at a PETA video and see how cattle are treated.