James Silverton wrote:
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> There is a rather sensible article available on the Los Angeles Times
> web page:

In recent decades Americans went from eating an average of a few pounds
of sugar per year to a few pounds of sugar per week. Some even eat
sugar on the level of a few pounds per day at the most extreme
consumption. Sugared sodas at larger than 8 ounces and drunk many times
per day not most weeks. Entire racks of candy and sugary baked goods in
stores. Low fat food that has sugar in the place of fat. The result
has been an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Our current level of intake is making us sick. That's what toxic means
- Makes us sick.

Should we cut our sugar consumption back to a tenth what it is now new
cases of diabetes would start dropping rapidly. It would stop being
toxic.

Translation - Sugar is toxic when consumed by the ton. Sugar is not
toxic when consumed at a tenth the current rate. This is not difficult
to figure out.

There's a further problem - Over use of sugar has already made plenty of
folks sick. To them it's more toxic than to others. Diabetics,
hypoglycemics, insulin resistants need to avoid sugar more than the
general population. To them it starts being toxic at much lower
exposure levels, often as a result of damage from prior over use.

How much down side is there to treating sugar with suspicion? Lower
variety in your foods. How much danger is there to eating sugar at a
tenth the rate currently used in the US? Very little to anyone without
existing problems. Should specific people avoid sugar much more
carefully than the general population? Definitely.