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 * =**Is sugar as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco?**=

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, say that sugar poses enough health risks that it should be considered a controlled substance just like alcohol and tobacco. One of these researchers is Robert Lustig. He argues that sugar is the public enemy number one, not as everyone thought salt and fat. He thinks that sugar should be regulated in the same way as alcohol and tobacco because its increasing use poses a significant danger to public health. He wants to have a controlled sale to children under 17 and taxing sugary food, because an overconsumption leads to helath problems including obesity, diabetes and certain types of liver diseases. If a mother wants her child to drink soda or eat sugar she has to buy it for him. He also mentions that over the past 50 years, consumption of sugar had trebled worldwide. || || include component="comments" page="Marisa" limit="10"