The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Sugar is bad for you, but not for the reason you think. Sugar is NOT bad for you because it raises your blood sugar. Sugar is bad for you because it causes dysbiosis in your gut => increases endotoxin =>inflammation/metabolic dysfunction.
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The damage from sugar happens in your gut. "Naked" sugars promote dysbiosis (overgrowth and imbalance of bacterial populations) which leads to endotoxemia (increased lipopolysaccharide)- a known cause of insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction.
And I think the reason sugar is bad for us is not because it raises our blood sugar, but because it affects the microbiome negatively.