In moderation, sugar isn’t a problem. Coke was sold in 5 oz bottles in the 1950s. A McDonald’s hamburger was originally 1.6 ounces BEFORE COOKING. I’m losing weight on my current diet, but also still putting a level teaspoon of sugar in my 12 oz mugs of coffee. 4 grams of sugar.
An 8 oz glass of milk has 11 grams of sugar. Big whoop! It has a lot of other good things, too!
Packaged food tends to have a ton of sugar added. Avoid those like the plague! Eat foods you cook. Eat in moderation. Feel free to be hungry sometimes. If you can recognize it as one-step food: milk, corn, etc - don’t sweat it. Humans have been eating it for as long as there have been humans. Without getting fat.
“Dr. Jason Fung - ‘Therapeutic Fasting - Solving the Two-Compartment Problem’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
Yes, I used to love getting served a 4-ounce juice glass of full-sugar soda by little old ladies up through the ‘80s. I think that generation and their 4-oz juice glasses pretty much died out after that.