Sugar: The Clear Case Of The Elephant In The Room

Why are we so blinkered about the issue?

Photo by Caspar Rae on Unsplash

I remember a lovely young girl I once taught. She was covered in psoriasis, her legs and arms a sea of red-scratched, bleeding skin.

And with her friends she would hop off to the canteen at recess and lunch time to buy slushies which essentially were semi-frozen sticks of pure sugar with…