As the saying goes—everyone is talking about sugar, but what are they doing about it? It’s my fervent wish that they are working on quitting the stuff. Why? The short answer is that sugar is an extraordinarily destructive substance that most people eat far too much of. The longer answer is that virtually every day, more studies are proving what we in the optimal health community have always believed: that sugar plays a pivotal role in the development of many of the devastating illnesses we fear most, namely heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, to name a few. Granted, the body does need trace amounts of sugar to function, but the average American is eating sugar by the pound, not the molecule. Some estimates put the average adult intake at close to 130 pounds of sugar per year—an astonishing amount of any substance, much less one which has such disastrous …