Is sugar toxic?

Kenji Aoki for The New York Times, 2011

Lustig is a specialist on pediatric hormone disorders and the leading expert in childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, which is one of the best medical schools in the USA. Lustig says sugar is a poison.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science

Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.

By D'AVID H. FREEDMAN, THE aTLANTIC MAGAZINE, 2010

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/