Resumen de Sugar on trial
Sugar was once a luxury ingredient reserved for special occasions. But in recent years it has become a large and growing part of humans' diets. Now, though, sugar is being touted as public health enemy number one: as bad if not worse than fat, and the major driving force behind obesity heart disease and type II diabetes. Some researchers even contend that sugar is toxic or addictive. When nutrition scientists talk about sugar they are not fretting about sugars found naturally in food such as fruit and vegetables, or the lactose in milk. Instead they are waffled about added sugar, usually in the form of sucrose (table sugar) or high-fructose corn syrup. Here, O'Callaghan examines whether sugar is really that bad.
