DOES adding sugar to your diet make you fat? The World Health Organization thinks so. Last week it recommended that we get no more than a tenth of our calories from the sweet stuff. It hopes this will help to halt a global epidemic of obesity that threatens to overwhelm health services around the world.
But the American sugar industry says the recommendation is flawed, relies on bad science, and undermines the credibility of the organisations supporting it. Cutting back on sugar will not improve our health, but it will jeopardise the economies of developing nations dependent on sugar exports.…
