近来人们把糖说成是世界上最大的祸害,并把它与鼠疫相提并论。他们说糖可以引起各种疾病,从肥胖症到智力衰退无所不及,并说这些致命的病息,无论是婴儿还是百岁老人,谁也不具备免疫力。美国政府也确信这一点。在参议院选举委员会1977年的“营养与人类需求”报告中,把糖称为祸害。随后,联邦贸易代办处便提出禁止在儿童电视节目中做糖制品广告(这一建议后来被撤消了)。一些食品厂商也见风使舵地叫喊“缩减糖的生产”。 Recently people have described sugar as the biggest scourge of the world and compared it with the plague. They say sugar causes a variety of illnesses, ranging from obesity to intellectual decline, saying that these deadly diseases, whether babies or centenarians, have no immunity. The U.S. government is convinced of this. In the Senate Election Commission’s 1977 Nutrition and Human Needs report, sugar was termed the scourge. Subsequently, the Federal Trade Agency proposed a ban on advertising of sugar products on children’s television shows (the suggestion was later withdrawn). Some food manufacturers also saw the rudder shout “shrinking sugar production.”