There's a good movie called "That Sugar Film" by Australian filmmaker Damon Gameau - at the end, he goes beyond the direct health/weight loss benefits of eliminating unnecessary sugar and asks whether our disturbed society (violence, anger, irrationality, bad habits - moving into addiction) isn't related to the massive increase in sugar consumption that began in the 1970s, and has been turbocharged to today (in western diets). I watched this the other day (again) with some lady friends. The end where he asks this and shows videos of people rushing around in crowded streets, ad images of "sexy" women eating ice cream, people yelling at each other, people overworked, commuting many hours and eating junk food to keep going .. I thought ... I did not grow up this way, eating these foods - the world of my childhood isn't like the world of today - well, it made an impression on me. Sugar is the most encouraged, least demonized of all of the commonly-consumed substances. And it might be the one that harms people's lives the most, physically and mentally. I sit on Twitter right now and see the rote, stereotyped, and frankly, stupid and single-minded comments of various "political advocates" and I think, who with a better than room temperature IQ would be interested in, think about, or have the least respect for any of this? Somebody with a sugar addled mind and damaged body/emotions.