Sweet and Sour

Sugar provides calories with no nutritional benefit. Excessive sugar can be toxic. Recently, the American Heart Association warned against too much added sugar in the diet. The solution lies on our determination to curb sugar consumption. The basic principle, as formulated by Paracelsus (1493-1541) runs thus: 'All substances are poisonous; there is none which is not a poison, the right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.'