{"id":6040,"date":"2014-08-11T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:18:48","slug":"sugar-the-evolution-of-a-forbidden-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Sugar: the evolution of a forbidden fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/health-and-fitness\/health\/sugar-the-evolution-of-a-forbidden-fruit\/article19969475\/?service=mobile\">John Allemang<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>weetness was meant to be irresistible.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;We are born with a sweet tooth. Babies drink in sugar with their mother\u2019s milk. Sweetness represents an instant energy boost, a fuel that kept our ancestors going in a harsher world where taste buds evolved to distinguish health-giving ripeness and freshness from the dangers of bitter, sour, toxic foods. Sugar gives us drug-like pleasures \u2013 lab rats deprived of their sugar-water fix exhibit classic signs of withdrawal. When things are going well, we blissfully say, \u201cLife is sweet.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;And now sweetness is linked with death and disease. Sugars are themselves toxins, some researchers suggest, that cause obesity, diabetes, hyper- tension and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Sugar has joined salt and fat on the list of dietary evils. Governments and health experts are urging people to cut back their daily intake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Allemang: weetness was meant to be irresistible.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are born with a sweet tooth. Babies drink in sugar with their mother\u2019s milk. Sweetness represents an instant energy boost, a fuel that kept our ancestors going in a harsher world where taste buds evolved to distinguish health-giving ripeness and freshness from the dangers of bitter, sour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}