If you look at the latest crop of diet books, you’ll find that sugar is the new fat. The Zero Sugar Diet, Blast the Sugar Out, and I Quit Sugar are among the many books that promise to help you crush your cravings, because research has increasingly shown that our love of sugar is more to blame for obesity and diabetes than fatty foods — although the two are often paired in a toxic twinship. Smithsonian magazine has a fascinating little article on America’s love affair with sugar, and while you may think that modern processed foods have stoked our…
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