I ate sugar every day as a kid in the 50s. I got chubby by age 12 but then it all went into 6’1”of height. We played outside every day after school. It wasn’t our choice necessarily. If it wasn’t pouring out we were told to go out and play and don’t come in till dinner time.
Sugar isn’t the problem. Sedentary lifestyle is.
BTW.....
Age and treachery over come youth and skill
I pretty much road a bike or walked everywhere I went until 18 when I joined the Army.
At about 16 1/2 I could borrow the family car on Friday OR Saturday night for a date - if I filled up the gas tank.
Granulated cane sugar isn't within reasonable limits. It's the highly processed crap that is. Whole grains are fine. Again, it's the highly processed stuff that destroys the body.
You're correct that sedentary lifestyle is. Look around. Oldtimers who continue to be active, with a lot of walking or gardening, stay very healthy. It's all it takes....just don't stay in one place for hours on end.
I was just like you, Vaquero, and with a huge sweet tooth. Sugar (where the fructose molecule is half of all table sugar) damages livers if eaten in the large quantities that Americans now consume. And then the Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver disease that occurs, progresses in many cases to liver cancer, which is the only cancer on the rise and is not very treatable.
A young adult human body can only detoxify about 30 grams of fructose (about 60 grams of table sugar) per day. More than that and it slowly poisons your liver.
If you are/were a huge sugar addict, watch your liver function tests and when they start going out of whack, fatty liver disease has probably started. A sonogram of you liver will show ripples like waves of sand.
This country has an epidemic, even of 6-month-olds, because parents are feeding kids juice loaded with sugar and they have very tiny livers than can detoxify almost no sugar.
just watch... liver cancer is growing and is destined to be the number on cancer killer soon