The first time the sugar industry felt compelled to “knock down reports that sugar is fattening,” as this newspaper put it, it was 1956. Another way to say this is that what we eat doesn’t matter; it’s only how much — just as the sugar industry would have us believe. But don’t blame the sugar industry for perpetuating this view. And yet on this issue, I think the sugar industry has a fair point in rejecting the comparison. To the sugar industry, the nutritionists’ dogmatic belief that obesity is a calorie overconsumption problem and a calorie is a calorie has been the gift that keeps on giving.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 08:21 UTC