Paul Saladino· MD
and a lot of times sugar gets labeled as a bad actor but technically speaking humans are made of sugar we have glucose we have fructose we make these molecules in our biology so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that pure sugar would be super harmful for humans other than being empty calories and devoid of nutrients but what's so interesting is that and I recently have done a podcast on this there's a difference between high fructose corn syrup and pure sugar and I'm not advocating for someone eating pure sugar but I do think that humans consuming fruit and honey and maple syrup simple sugars is quite valuable for us and should not be feared but high fructose corn syrup