Reading Between the Lines

This article was just published on the web by an M.D. Notice the very careful non-commital wording, phrasing and qualifiers employed. Note also the incredible claim in the title that eating fruit does not make you gain weight. Since you can gain weight if you eat enough of anything, including foods that are healthy for you, the title is clearly false. A more accurate title would have been “Fruits: The Naturally Sweet Treat That Doesn’t Cause Weight Gain When Eaten Sparingly” but that would be boring, right?

This is obviously a retort to the article published in the New York Times about the evils of sugar. I highly recommend that you watch the YouTube video linked at the beginning of the article.

The context for this whole debate is the increased intake of cheap corn sugars as a flavor replacement in low fat foods, all thanks to the low fat health craze promoted so heavily for the last 35 years. As proof, go to your local grocery store and examine 100 pre-packaged items at random. You will be hard-pressed to find more than 20 which do not contain some type of unnecessarily-added sugar, especially when focusing on pre-packaged “low fat” foods. The USDA has been kind enough to compile a list of the common names given to those “added” sugars.

(202.4 pounds this morning.)