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Article: SWEET NOTHINGS.(maximum recommended daily intake (Daily Value) for sugar of 40 grams--ten teaspoons)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
- Author:
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Sugar has largely escaped criticism over the past two decades. In contrast, in the 1970s, nutritionists (and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which publishes Nutrition Action Healthletter) targeted sugary cereals, candy, soft drinks, and other sweets for contributing to tooth decay, obesity, and empty-calorie diets.
But in the 1980s and 1990s, "demon sugar" was replaced by fat, especially saturated fat. And rightly so. Saturated fat causes heart disease, the number-one killer of Americans. And it may raise the risk of colon and prostate cancer.
While we and others were struggling to cut saturated-fat consumption, the nation's sweet tooth ...