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SUGAR. IT’S BEEN
DESCRIBED AS TOXIC,
POISONOUS AND
ADDICTIVE, BUT
SHOULD WE QUIT IT
COMPLETELY?
S
ugar is the villain of the day in the health
and wellness sector. Slowly but surely fats
are shedding their bad-boy status, and
sugar is taking over as the most detrimental
dietary ingredient to our waistlines, health and
general wellbeing.
We outline the bad rap sugar has been
attracting and look into the question on
everybody’s taste buds – should we banish it
from our diet once and for all?
The book Sweet Poison: Why Sugar is
Making Us Fat by David Gillespie, published
in 2008, marked a turning point in the way
we consider sugar consumption. In the book,
Gillespie investigated the relationship between
sugar, the ever-increasing obesity rates of the
Western world and the most prevalent diseases
in the 21st century.
It was Gillespie’s personal story, however,