[Gibbon1]

I watches a few videos by Robert Lustig at UCSF. My take away is healthwise a can of Coke == one shot of booze. Partly because the fructose in HFCS and or table sugar shares the same metabolic pathway in the liver as ethanol. People that eat a lot of sugar tend to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

24 grams HFCS is 14 grams fructose. A shot of 40 proof booze is 14 of grams ethanol.

Also the slug of glucose in a can of Coke spikes your blood sugar, which spikes your insulin levels. This is also not good. Take away from that eat complex carbs. Difficulty a lot of 'health food' contains processed carbs.

My gut unsupported feeling is, people living sedentary lifestyles, which is most people, don't require much in the way of carbohydrates.

[Laforet]

I have mixed feelings about Lustig. A lot of his theories make good scientific sense but the experimental observations just don't add up. Still I agree with him in saying that the fat-free fad have probably done more harm than good since a lot of the supposedly low fat food have heaps of added sugar to maintain the taste and people end up eating way more calories than needed.