I believe (influenced strongly by self-experimentation over a long period of time) that there's a great deal of mistaking correlation for causation in this deba

I believe (influenced strongly by self-experimentation over a long period of time) that there's a great deal of mistaking correlation for causation in this debate. In my experience, when the body is in a good state of healthy balance, there is little appetite for refined sugars, carbs, and all the other usual culprits of the anti-sugar set. Such a body can happily tolerate some indulgence - eg, a night or two per week having sugary desserts and cocktails. But after a certain amount of indulgence, the body responds by feeling bad (hangovers, brain fog etc), and the this healthy person heeds the signal to ease off for a few days. However there's a significant proportion of the population for whom the body isn't in a state of healthy balance, which causes them to have too great an appetite for sugar, which leads to exacerbated health problems (diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc). All my research and experience leads me to believe that excess sugar consumption is more of a symptom than a primary cause.