Sugar

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From the included PDF

The Epidemiological and Metabolic History of Dietary Sugars: A Two-Century Analysis of Chronic Disease and Oncology The macronutrient composition of the human diet has undergone a profound transformation over the past two centuries, characterized most distinctly by the exponential increase in the consumption of refined sugars.

How much sugar countries supply today still varies widely with the measure used; our page on sugar consumption by country brings together the latest per-person figures.

From its historical origins as a prohibitively expensive luxury reserved for European aristocracy, sucrose—and subsequently high-fructose corn syrup—evolved into a ubiquitous, low-cost dietary staple worldwide.

The scientific endeavor to understand the relationship between sugar consumption and human pathology has been highly contentious, oscillating between early clinical dietary restrictions, mid-century epidemiological controversies, and modern molecular oncology.