I suffered severe cravings for my entire life... gave up all added sugars last December and the cravings are gone!! It is very difficult but wonderful when done...

More than 200 calories per day, from added sugar, for men, and 100 per day for women.

So one broken heart ruins your brain? That sucks.

Drink one soda, and that's it for the day.

since most everything is infused with sugar/HFCS here...

Archer-Daniels-Midland wins again.

More hysteria and bullshit about what is SOOOOOOO bad for us.

I've long had a sweet tooth

But to call sugar a "toxin?"

And the 60 Minutes clown lumped in honey and anything else that's sweet as well.

If I overdo it, I'll feel it. It'll start with a gutache.

But 200 calories limit a day? I'd like to see some peer review on this "research."

That's why we have mechanisms to process it. BECAUSE WE NEED IT.

Stop drinking it!

Just give it some time.

But dietary glucose can surely help to reduce "brain fog," which typically will go away after a few days eating a no-carb or low-carb diet. The body is supposed to be able to synthesize glucose from food (or from the body itself if you're undereating calories).

Almost all foods have some carbs in them. Even if they are non-digestable.

I've lost 35 pounds and started feeling great. I fell off the wagon and stopped paying as much attention and although I haven't gained anything back, I do notice a marked difference in mood, fatigue and mental sharpness when I don't watch what I eat.

The author asserts that "added" is the important part of the increased sugar consumption that results in harm yet provides no evidence for that claim.

He links to two research studies that mention sugar. Neither addresses the idea that added sugar is worse than naturally occurring sugar. Both studies are on rats fed high sucrose diets. The first study feeds rats a high sugar & high saturated fat diet (to simulate typical western diets) using a low fat "healthy"-type diet as a control. The second study feeds rats a diet of 50%(!!) sugar using a high cornstarch diet as a control.

The linked article is typical science-writing quackery where a couple of pretty narrow studies are misinterpreted and erroneously generalized to make some sort of unjustified or incorrect conclusion.

Diabetes is a known prenatal risk factor for autism.

The feeding of juice to infants and preschoolers is a bad practice. They are getting fructose instead of lactose.

I have heard of nothing regarding a risk factor for Autism. Last I checked there is no factual evidence for what causes autism or what autism even is to do anything about it.
And as many people I know who have kids with autism and Asperger's I'm certain I would have heard SOMETHING about this.

...wikipedia is not, nor will it ever be an actual reference for ANYTHING. It is like the bible. Use it to prove your point and it will automatically be dismissed as hogwash.

I guess it could make sense, but the leading experts on Autism will still tell you there is no conclusive evidence of cause and effect that has been proven.

So the wiki article is a good starting point for researching the topic.

The wiki article is also a good place to look for search terms that you can use with Google to look for information beyond the references to make sure that the wiki article isn't just cherry picking references.

I buy most products that say sugar free. I am an ice cream lover and only buy sugar-free ice cream. And Smucker's has sugar-free fudge syrup. And now Hersey has sugar-free chocolate, and Reese's now has sugar-free peanut butter cups. I can't tell the difference between sugar free and those products loaded with sugar.

I've wondered what has happened to me over the years, now I know. I have had type one diabetes for 34 years now, and have wondered what is wrong with me in the past decade or so. Now I get it. Thanks, I'm just going to get more stupid.

never was a smoker or a drinker, never more than 10-15 lbs overweight, increased my physical activity of late...but here's where I jump off the healthy-lifestyle bandwagon. Gotta have my sugar and sweets.

The main difference between corn starch and corn syrup is that syrup is made by depolymerizing the starch outside of the intestinal tract.

The other difference is how long it takes to depolymerize the starch in your intestines, which leads to a flattening of the rate at which glucose is absorbed into your blood stream -- the slower the better.

Some higher molecular weight carbs make it to the large intestine where they are fermented by gut bacteria and converted to short chain fatty acids.

Most canned foods didn't used to come with added sugars.
People used to make their own spaghetti sauce.. (we NEVER put sugar in it)

Cookies were a TREAT.. and the sugar in them was spread out over 6-8 dozen (consumed by many people in the family)

Soda pop/koolaid/etc was a TREAT for birthday parties, camping trips/etc.

Ketchup for fries was not a big problem, because fries were a RARE treat (this is pre fast-food-places-on-every-corner)

Sugar was just another cupboard staple..like flour, baking powder, etc. It was an INGREDIENT of a recipe, and was NOT in everything we ate.

And we ate at MEALTIME.. We did not graze all day as we worked, drove, etc.

We were not always sucking something sweet through a straw all day long. When we were thirsty, we got up from our chair & went to the drinking fountain (or refrigerator) & had a drink of.....WATER.