The article was written by a news service reporter who took a complex issue and boiled it down into 156 words. Such articles routinely garble the information, partly in an attempt to make it sexier. The original in the American Journal of Medicine is behind a paywall. of course, but no such article showed up in their search results. No doubt it's somewhere, safely hidden from the public who are affected by the issue. The use of the word sugar is misleading, because there are different kinds of sugar. The kind alleged to be the most damaging is fructose, which your body is unable to metabolize properly. Fructose is said to be linked to diabetes, alzheimers and a wide variety of other diseases. Fructose is in just about all processed foods now, (I found it listed on a can of cat food). There's a good chance that the sugar industry will eventually find themselves in the same boat as the tobacco industry, but it will likely take decades .