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My recollections from before 2016 re sugar were 1. Calories, so people wanted artificial sweetener to lose weight 2. Diabetes 3. Artificial sweeteners may cause
by rendaw 4y ago
My recollections from before 2016 re sugar were
1. Calories, so people wanted artificial sweetener to lose weight
2. Diabetes
3. Artificial sweeteners may cause cancer
But, like cholesterol coating arteries, these studies I _think_ suggest that sugar is bad beyond the weight gain issue. Like even if you don't gain weight, just replacing other carbs with sugar may have disproportionate health risks. At least, that's my reading.
- karaterobot 4y agoI think the very latest I'd put public awareness of the health effects of sugar would be the Atkins diet fad, circa 2004. That diet was a big deal at the time, definitely part of the public discourse, and the premise was that sugar was bad. Note that that book was already 30 years old by then, but something suddenly changed in the culture that made it hit. Then there were things like Paleo (2002-2013, hard to pin down) and The 4-Hour Body (2010), which were even more explicit about sugar being dangerous.