'Sugar-free' scam: How scapegoating a pantry staple is ruining our health

Sugar has had a terrible few decades in public relations. Which is rich, considering sugar never hired a publicist or lobbied for its inclusion in 37 varieties of salad dressing. Sugar was simply sitting there, being a carbohydrate, when an entire industry decided it made a more convenient villain than portion size, impulse control, or the more uncomfortable question of why a gas station sells a beverage the size of a toddler.Fat was the villain in 1990. Americans loaded up on SnackWell's cookie...