A controversial call to regulate sugar in the same way as alcohol has drawn a heated reaction in Australia, with one expert calling it “misleading, unfounded and unnecessary”.
Health experts from University of California argue in today’s Nature that sugar overconsumption is at the root of growing global public health problems including obesity and certain types of liver disease.
Grouping sugar alongside tobacco and alcohol in terms of health threat, they advocate controlling sales to children under 17 and taxing sugary foods.
But their arguments are hyperbolic and based on flimsy evidence, says the head of research at the Australian Diabetes Foundation, Dr Alan Barclay.
“The authors suggest that fructose can trigger processes that lead to chronic diseases including liver toxicity, however one would need...
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