I haven’t written much on Food recently (or much at all recently) but there’s a great article in the New York Times covering sugar’s possible role in metabolic syndrome and other diseases as well.
The article itself clocks in at 9 pages, but it’s worth reading all the way through. In particular, reading the full article leads to the last two pages, which contain some possible connections that I had not seen until this article. Truly scary stuff.
If you haven’t already, you should read Gary Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories”:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302717176&sr=8-1
It also outlines the problems with sugar and possible connections to metabolic syndrome, along with a wonderful review of over 150 years of medical studies, observations, and data.
There’s a two-hour lecture for medical students at some university in California that shows the reasons why this is true. I’ll have to dig up the link.
Oops! That’s the same link in the article.
This one?
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2009/12/sugar/
Here is a nice way to put things into perspective:
http://flowingdata.com/2011/04/13/sugar-consumption-buckets/
Now that you’ve seen the argument that sugar is the problem, have a look at the argument that eggs are the solution:
http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2010/11/sweet-truth-about-liver-and-egg-yolks.html
Whatever food is associated with what terrible consequences this week, however good it used to be for you last week, the old adage of “a little bit of what you fancy does you good” seems to hold true. I think I’ll stick to that and stop reading stuff…