I'm super fascinated to see what emerges from Lustig's work (http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/08/06/sweet-revenge-dr-robert-lustig-explains-how-to-cut-sugar-lose-weight-and-turn-the-tables-on-processed-foods/). Our country is getting sicker by the year and as a whole, doesn't realize how much of it is coming from the food we eat and feed our children. I'm no biologist or doctor, but if everything I've been reading lately is true (I suspect it is), both the medical and layperson community have a lot of changes to make.
In a highly controlled, scientific experiment on a sample size of one (lol), I cut out added sugar and processed food from my diet 18 days ago to see what would happen. (A) I've started feeling much better on many dimensions and certainly am sleeping better with fewer aches and pains, and (B) this is a real pain in the ass to do! It's very time consuming to spend time preparing whole foods ... Even though I love to cook. It's expensive too, in trying to avoid the pesticides, hormones, etc.
So what's our hope for a country that's obsessed with convenient, low cost food and who is convinced that fat is the enemy and that sugar's benign?
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