One of the purposes of starting this blog was to be able to highlight concerns which really do not fall within the remit of foodsmatter.com and its satellites. So I shall use this post to pass on one of John Scott’s links to a lengthy but fascinating article in the New York Times on sugar – stimulated by a lecture by anti-sugar campaigner John Lustig that, in the two years since it was posted, has gone viral and logged over 800,000 viewers on YouTube…
The question asked is whether sugar (or more importantly the fructose element of sugar) is the root cause not only of obesity, insulin resistence and, in due course, diabetes but whether it is also a major factor in the development of cancer…. Read on…