Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden
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By Juliana Bunim on February 1, 2012
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
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Comment by Linda Gauvin-Miller on February 3, 2012 at 2:57pm Wow....quite an eye opener!!!
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