I'm sure I've got a couple of articles knocking around somewhere on that very topic. Of course it does depend what form of sugar we're talking about. There's sugar and there's sugar.


Drips are mostly used to rehydrate people. They can't be given pure water so glucose and other stuff is included in the solution in the drip.

Also the brain does require glucose to function, however generally this can be converted in the body from other things, so glucose does not need to be part of the diet normally.

I think common sense tells most people that drinking a ton of anything be it Coke, Diet Coke, Squash, Fruit Juice isn't the healthiest thing for ones teeth. Even flavoured water can have quite a high sugar content

I prefer Diet Coke, I have a few cans a week and will use it as a mixer if I have vodka. Other than that I drink water!!

Questions are followed by a question mark, as mine lacked one it was intended to be rhetorical.

'Sugar is sucrose' is an incorrect statement. I presume you're confusing yourself by thinking of sugar in the commercial sense of the word i.e. the stuff you put in your tea (which is mainly sucrose) and not the fact that the word sugar refers to a category of carbohydrate.

For all that rambling the point remains the same sugar is not 'bad' at times it's beneficial and many of the healthiest foods around contain it.

Ooooh, someone is having a hissy fit. Too much sugar perhaps?