For a treat, Oliver offers up a video clip of the sleepy president of The Sugar Association, for instance, arguing that there's been "plenty of science that exonerates sugar, that clarifies sugar does not contribute to obesity or diabetes." Problem is, as Oliver points out, what little of such science there is usually comes from researchers who are paid gobs of money by totally unbiased groups like the Corn Refiners Association.
These kinds of groups are precisely the ones battling a new FDA proposal for an "added sugar" label, too, given how freaking much sugar is snuck into regular, non-Halloweeny foods. ("Look at Clamato juice," Oliver says. "'The Original Tomato Cocktail With Clam.' They clearly thought, 'Let's improve the taste by adding sugar.' Instead of thinking, 'Let's improve the taste by removing the clam.'")
Point is, this clip is awesome, and we heart you, too, John Oliver - especially for that brutally honest description of the circus peanut.
More mindless pathological following by SoTT.
Sugar does not cause diabetes.
How do we know?
Sugar was eaten for hundreds of years in the West prior to the first case of diabetes (2) that occured in 1933 in the USA.
Further, carbohydrates are converted to sugar during the digestive process so sugar has always been eaten prior to 1933.
Note that all this recent propaganda against sugar fails at all times to specify 1) Which sugar causes diabetes 2) Explain in any way shape or form what the biochemistry is that interferes with insulin and the glycogon inhibitor in pancreatic beta cells.
It is therefore absolutely PROVEN that sugar does not cause diabetes.
Of course you can simply keep taking the sugar coated blue pills.