Robert Lustigs "hypothesis" about fructose has been debunked again, and again and again. Read:
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/
1)Your personal opinions are irrelevant to the disussion. I'm interested in objective facts.
2) No, sugar on it's own is not addictive. The study your article refers to has already been discussed in this thread:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed...:+pushing+the+drug-sugar+analogy+to+the+limit
It talks about reward in specfic foods containing sugar (hyperpalatable) and effects on rodents, not sucrose on its own:
Read more:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27372453
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25692302
Or are you telling me fat is addictive?
3) Yes, it has been studied. And science tells us that people should ignore junk food high in fat, sugar and salt if they want to improve their health.
Let me rephrase: Any diet that helps you improve your health is fantastic. And eating low carbs is helping alot of people and thats great: When I say bullshit however, I'm talking about when Gary Taubes and his followers explain
why it's helping alot of people. The hypothesis that: eating carbs -> insulin spike -> fat gain has also been debunked over and over again.
I know people who are afraid of eating fruit because of these "truths" that are establishing about carbs, sugar and fructose. And of course fruit is not bad for you:
http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/f&v_promotion_initiative_report.pdf?ua=1
No. Read the above: The problem is demonising all carbs with a disproved hypothesis making people afraid of healthy food.
If it works for you, great. Keep doing it. But don't fool yourself that it works for everybody.