leftovers #2: the case against sugar

It is hard to simply avoid eating sugar. My own sweet tooth is as long as some of these posts; whenever I willfully give up sugar, I notice myself thinking about it all the time.

But is the right approach to give it up entirely? As I alluded to in the post, it does seem like sugar is more of a threshold problem- eat past a point and the health issues start.

I think it is worth sharing that Taubes thought seventy pounds of sugar per year was a rough cutoff point. At this level, societies started to see the incidence of sugar-linked diseases rise. For individuals, perhaps a safe range of annual consumption falls in the sixty to eighty pounds per year range.