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>>10664726
This is true, but sugar in isolation regardless of the form consumed isn't bad for you other than being an empty calorie. Eating a bag of pure refined Domino's with a spoon isn't going to hurt you, but mixing it with heavy cream in shakes/starbucks drinks, butter to make frosting or plus eggs to make pastries, and frying them to make doughnuts will. It's the package of other junk sugar typically is consumed in that matters. Fruit-delivers sugar as a package along with a truckload of anti-oxidants and fiber with it. No other vehicle of sweetness does. Juices stripped of the pulp and pith are just non-carbonated soda for that reason.

Sugar doesn't even give you DA BEETUS, it's specifically saturated fat molecules that dam up the inside receptors lining your muscle cells (called: intramyocellular lipids) that make them less capable or worse completely unable to absorb insulin in the usual amounts that the pancreas puts out which causes it to overwork to compensate and become damaged over time. A flood of sugar is not a problem if your diet is low in saturated fat (this is possible if your only source of sugar are fruit packages and other complex carbs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8hufhIDu0

Keto diets that keep sugars to a minimum even if they have a lot of saturated fat in them is another way to fight DA BEETUS, but that's by reducing total blood glucose intake so the pancreas can play the game on EZ MODO. It doesn't do anything for the actual insulin resistance which creates the issue in the first place. Another way to think of it is if you ate 5 strips of bacon every day for 40 years, you'd be diabetic by your 60s even if you never ate any refined carbs or any dessert before then.