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Sugar is clearly a big problem in the modern diet, as the dentist, Dr. Weston Price (www.ppnf.org) showed as early as 1936. Fructose doesn't stimulate insulin production, but instead goes directly to the liver to be turned into FAT in the form of triglycerides. It is interesting to note that the obesity epidemic parallels the increasing use of high fructose corn syrup.

Eating lots of fat and even cholesterol is no problem if you don't also eat more than a tiny amount of sugar and other carbohydrates. If that surprises you, you haven't read Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories", For a free introduction to his carefully researched book, look up his hour long video talking to folks at UC Berkeley more than a year ago. He shows that the low fat diet advice offered by doctors and others for decades is exactly wrong, and exacerbates the obesity problem world wide.