The sugar rush

摘要

Sugar is in the news, as the world tries to get to grips with a global obesity epidemic and the rising cost of diabetes to national health services. It seems you can't turn a page in a newspaper without hearing about how Coca-Cola is reducing the sugar load in its products, or turn on the TV without an advertisement for lower sugar products. However, all sugar is not the same, as Dr Judith Bryans from Dairy UK has pointed out on page 18. The sugars found in milk, for example, are quite different to the added sugar found in some products. Free sugars are not total sugars.