Is sugar bad for you or just an addictive drug?

“Every aspect of their metabolic health got better, with no change in calories,” said study author Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco.  “This study definitively shows that sugar is metabolically harmful not because of its calories or its effects on weight.  Rather, sugar is metabolically harmful because it’s sugar.”

via HealthDay, 2015-10-27

Maybe both…