rvous. More or less everyone agrees that eating too much sugar is bad for you. There is also no doubt obesity isa growing problem which is putting a significant, avoidable burden on the NHS by increasing the rates of diabetes, heart disease and other long-term conditions. But to what extent is sugar - -- rather than saturated fats, or salt, carbohydrates or proteins, or any of the other devils of modem diets - -- the cause of obesity and how much should we worry about it? Yesterday, hopes of achieving anything resembling clarity (清楚) from the World anisation (WHO) were confused once again, which, widely expected to reduce the mended sugar intake bya half in new draft guidance, instead said it would continue to mend that sugar make up no more than 10 per cent of the energy we consume, while