Don’t know what the glycemic index says on sugar, but that’s not the whole story. The story is that fructose gets metabolized differently than glucose and for

Don’t know what the glycemic index says on sugar, but that’s not the whole story. The story is that fructose gets metabolized differently than glucose and for example leads to accumulation of fat in your liver and then your pancreas and it’s all downhill from there, I.e. having a fatty pancreas is correlated very well with insulin resistance and prediabetes. And then the problem with sucrose and HCFS are is that they have both glucose and fructose and the foods containing them have no fiber to slow down the digestion, so it’s hitting that liver hard, with that fructose being converted directly in fat deposits. I do agree that wheat is bad too. Personally I’ve cut wheat from my diet. But don’t look at the glycemic index alone as that’s an oversimplification. Also let’s get one thing straight ... you cannot live without fat, no matter what fat we’re talking about and anybody that claims otherwise doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And you can die without salt. In these cases the debate has always been about quantity. But you can live without putting another gram of sugar in your mouth for your remaining life. Although it’s pretty hard to do because sugar is in everything these days, including packaged bread because it extends shelf life ;-)