60 Minutes recently did a segment called "Is Sugar Toxic?"  It's great that this information is spreading beyond the holistic health niche and becoming mainstream.  This segment talks about how a "calorie is not just a calorie," meaning that eating sugar prompts the production of small dense LDL by the liver (contributing to heart disease,) and it also feeds certain kinds of cancer cells. 

Obviously, over consumption can lead to diabetes as well.  High fructose corn syrup became an additive in foods as the low-fat trend eliminated flavor.  This clip shows that sugar is addictive, triggering dopamine in the same brain center as drugs or alcohol.  People then build up a tolerance and want to eat even more sugar to get a kick of dopamine. 

It is recommended in this segment that men limit their sugar caloric intake to 150 calories a day and that women limit theirs to 100.

Check out the following link:  www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n