When I picked up my kids’ birthday cake this week, I felt a tinge of guilt that I’m sure many people will find familiar. Isn’t this thing loaded with sugar?  The health and wellness space is filled with people pushing zero/no sugar diets, sometimes as a short-term detox, sometimes as a long-term way of life. Sugar has been vilified by popular influencers and US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called it “poison” last spring. When Kennedy talks about “sugar,” what he really means is added sugar: the refined brown and cane sugars or syrups that often end in “-cose” that are...

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