Must See: Toxic Sugar on 60 MinutesInteresting seeing the people whose research papers you've read.

The more that I am addicted to this stuff the more I am becoming convinced that I'm really battling a chemical substance addiction, not simply an eating disorder. I have many times tried to abstain from sugar, only to begin feeling intense fatigue, depression, anxiety etc. after a day or two of being without it. I feel utterly controlled by the stuff, unable to function without it, and yet it is clearly destroying my life and my sanity. I could just as easily be describing cocaine or alcohol, but I'm describing sugar. I attend an addictions therapy group consisting of mostly alcoholics, and the behaviors and patterns that they describe as part of their addiction to alcohol are absolutely identical to mine. The substance is different, but the behaviors are identical.

So, if cigarettes and alcohol are regulated, I don't see why refined sugar should be any different. I think there is abundant evidence to suggest that it is at least *almost* as destructive to health as the aforementioned substances. The short term effects are less dramatic certainly. But food addiction CAN and DOES kill in a variety of ways. I think it's possible that it is simply so rampant in our society that it has become the norm and we are desensitized to it and can't even see if for what it really is. In this sense, I think sugar is perhaps MORE dangerous than all those drugs in that there is a big cloud of collective denial around it. It is this huge insidious monster that's lurking on every urban street corner to lure you in with the promise of a fleeting experience of pleasure and escape, only to later leave you feeling depressed, lethargic and sick, and craving more.

Good that Robert is spreading the word! People need to see all the hooey that's going on with our food industry.

You know, when I was a kid our whole family ate a lot of sugar and well into old age as well as every other kid I knew, every day, perhaps 3 or 4 times a day and such had been the practice for at least 50 years before I was born. None of us were obese. There are a number of doctors that think that sugar is not nearly as dangerous as some of the other stuff going on these days like MSG in all its forms as well as devitalized foods in general, vaccines, antibiotics and estrogenic/chemical poisoning. Couple all that with sugar and you have a fine mess on your hands.

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Sugar is toxic for many reasons, and the amount each person takes in on average has increased from between 10-20 pounds per year to somewhere between 100-150 pounds per year since I was a kid in the 1950's.

Besides the huge increase in amount of sugar, (and high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, msg, etc) there is another big difference between then and now... exercise.

As youngsters, we spent alot of time playing outside, unlike the kids today. We didn't have playstation, cellphones, ipads, computers, or hundreds of digital tv channels.

We also had chores..