a good rant
Watch superhero movies and the character with magical powers always needs an equally powerful arch-enemy. In the world of food and health, where arbitrary foodstuffs are frequently granted magical superfood status by self-appointed wellness gurus, it seems appropriate that there should be something for them to battle. The enemy used to be the combined forces of cholesterol and saturated fat, but these days that mantle has passed firmly to sugar.
Sugar, so the story goes, is a vile, toxic and addictive poison. A dangerous shapeshifting evil, it hides in our favourite foods making us fat and sick. It’s a drug as pernicious and consuming as the purest crystal meth. Sugar is all that’s wrong with the world, destroying our children, forcing them into vicious spirals of addiction, obesity, illness and early death.
Only by following the new anti-sugar gurus will we ever be free. We must detox, go cold turkey, extract our pitiful selves from this candied hell. If we do, the promised land of perfect sugar-free wellness awaits, where we will all be happy, healthy and free.