“ Sucrose is the exception that proves the rule. Only the power of the sugar lobby in Washington can explain the fact that the official U.S. Recommendation for the maximum permissible level of free sugars in the diet is an eye-popping 25 percent of daily calories. To give you an idea of just how permissive this is, the World Health Organization recommends that no more than 10 percent of daily calories come from added sugars, a benchmark the U.S. sugar lobby has worked furiously to dismantle. In 2004 it enlisted the Bush State Department in a campaign to cut WHO funding unless the organization recants. Perhaps we should be grateful that the saturated fat interests have as of yet organized no such lobby.”
Footnote from In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
