While that may be true, I don't think most American sugar consumption comes from fruits. I guess if Americans switched to snacking on fruit rather than processe

While that may be true, I don't think most American sugar consumption comes from fruits. I guess if Americans switched to snacking on fruit rather than processed foods, even if we ate the same mass of snack food, it would be good for the average person's diet. There's no need to demonize fruit at this juncture -- maybe later when that is the most unhealthy thing people are eating. (Personally I'm on a kick-the-dad-bod diet right now -- all I've done is try to eat 2x as much veg each meal, stop drinking, switch most snacking to apples, and put a little quarter cup measure in any bags of snack food I happen to have in the house. Down 13lb since early July on a not terribly fat baseline. For me, fruits have been very helpful as they seem to give a good contribution to satiety, while being less calorically intense than what I was snacking on before.)