Sugar Isn’t Giving Us All Cancer
Why you shouldn’t worry about the occasional glass of orange juice
We all know sugar is bad for us. Diet books have been screaming for decades that the single worst thing that you can put in your body is a droplet of that sweet, sweet goodness. Celebrity diets may differ in many ways, but they all tell us to avoid that sweet, sticky powder.
Which makes the recent media furore about sugar all that much more believable. Headlines around the globe have been screaming for the last week that sugar is giving us all cancer. Apparently, a small glass of fruit juice is enough to push you over the edge into the scariest of C-words.
It must be true because of SCIENCE!
The good news is that you probably don’t have to worry too much about sugar giving you cancer. The bad news is that too many sugary drinks are still not great for your health.
Superb Science
The study that has everyone fearing for their lives was a large epidemiological trial using a cohort of people in France. Basically, the researchers took a large group of people — over 100,000 — asked…
