kudos to all watching what they eat.
a big day out, tiredness, waiting for transport had me willfully going against my own healthy interest to a trip to a bakery yesterday, and ate a huge hedghog. I guess a little like a dense version of choc brownie. back pain woke me in the night though that may have been something else.
Harriet - I do not think lustig is really supported by good science, as I find may views are against his sweeping statements. Watched the 60min video piece and do not agree the tests are only on what he claimed. the sweet drinks /brain mri - if the drink contained any other substance (like artificial or even natural colours, flavours, preservatives) then that muddies the water of the test just being about hfcs. He forgets his other video where he stated a difference in the processing of frutose and sucrose. And how our body processes them. There is a difference for most people in terms terms of quantity. that is the real problem. that the US daily average per capita is 1/3lb. The problem with processed food is it has so many other toxins in it in terms of artificial substances.
http://fedup.com.au/factsheets/blogtake your pick looking at these as to effects of substances on so much in life.
http://ginews.blogspot.com.au/this is this months newsletter but last months newsletter had links to a dietitians blog - who directly addressed and debunks lustigs claims.
All calories are not equal - true.theres so much more to it.
All that said - sugar is an addictive substance for me, though there may be others who can handle it - like some can get health benefits from one glass of red wine without going overboard.
It doesn't invalidate the help for some that others are not helped.
others claim that sugar often comes packaged with artificals, with wheat ( and there is another school of thought that declares wheat a toxin for maybe 10% of population), with the need for some to stay off salicylates found in may forms of sweeteners, that low blood sugar reactions in a reasonable diet (as in what gets eaten, not some list a person is trying to follow for whatever reason) are caused by food intollerance reactions.
Maybe see what someone respected like Mendosa has to say on the subject of sugar before you get too much reactionary - that is unless you currently eat sugar by the tablespoon. I admit I don't have much good to say about sodas that contain so much sugar/whatever per serve. Read the container to see how many teaspoons it contains.
Nor much good to say about the 1/2 teaspoon of sugar I was adding to drinks lately that led up to my binging yesterday. big serve. nothing in it I should have been eating. I could have eaten less of it having bought and started eating, but chose to eat the lot.