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NPR Story
1:00 pm
Fri February 17, 2012
Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol?
By editor
Writing in the journal Nature, UCSF pediatrician Robert Lustig and colleagues suggest regulating sugar just like alcohol and tobacco--with taxes and age limits, for example--due to what they call the "toxic" effects of too much sweet stuff. Education, they say, is not enough.