“A growing body of research suggests that sugar and its nearly chemically identical cousin, HFCS, may very well cause diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, and that these chronic conditions would be far less prevalent if we significantly dialed back our consumption of added sugars.
Big Sugar used Big Tobacco-style tactics to ensure that government agencies would dismiss troubling health claims against their products. This decades-long effort to stack the scientific deck is why, today, the USDA’s dietary guidelines only speak of sugar in vague generalities.” Read more…
SOURCE: Mother Jones
