Back when we were all anti-fat, we replaced its taste and satisfaction in processed foods with sugar, and today you can't buy many packaged foods that don't contain it or other sweeteners – and once you start reducing it, there isn't much left, other than fruits and vegetables, nuts and grains, legumes, meat, and unadorned dairy. It's just that, these days, the famine never comes. Our obsession with sugar is a survival mechanism, and it's part of our programming to eat as much as we can to store as fat, in case starvation strikes later on. What a relief – it's not our fault, really. Is it the new tobacco? It depends on who you talk to. With Westerners getting fatter all the time and chronic disease such as type-2 diabetes on the rise, we need a culprit and sugar is in the dock. Baker Jordan Rondel's opinion on sugar has changed as new research has emerged.
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