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US sugar consumption peaked in 2000 and has since declined, with the decline being driven primary by a decline in HFCS: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

Yet the obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemics have only gotten worse, with the diabetes epidemic reaching what appears (in this graph) to be an inflection point around the time sugar consumption started to decline (which makes sense when you realize it entails a shift to more fat consumption, including saturated fat): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568004/figure/ch3.fig2...

I'm amazed that here we are, in the third decade of the low-carb era, with the obesity rate now hovering over 40% despite a decline in sugar consumption, and this nonsense is still being taken seriously, let alone by people (like HNers) who think they're well-informed.

BTW go look at photos of Johnson and Lustig: they're both fat, unlike Barnard, McDougall and other doctors who advocate ultra low-fat, whole food, plant-based diets.