After alcohol, tobacco and fat, Sugar is the new evil

In the pre-Internet days, we wouldn't even have the slightest chance to know about how the sugar industry colluded with universities to hide the negative effects of sugar in the 1960s. We can add this to the long list of hidden truths that are slowly being re-discovered. Not only was the fact that sugar contributes to heart disease. etc. but the additive was added to tobacco in order to increase addiction i.e. the extra kick. From How Sugar Helped Hooked American on Cigarettes:

“Were it not for sugar,”... a former U.S. Department of Agriculture tobacco official quoted..., “the American blended cigarette and with it the tobacco industry of the United States would not have achieved such tremendous development as it did in the first half of this century.” The combination... was a “stroke of genius.”

Still think genius only in the positive? A movement has started to label sugar as a toxin which was written about in a book called Pure, White and Deadly by John Yudkin published as far back as 1972. If you think that drinking fruit juice is any better, you might want to think again. Robert Lustig is the person who started the above-mentioned movement.

Did anyone mention the 'Sugar King of Asia'?