Sugar Over-Consumption Is Harmful To One's Health

First, we must establish whether sugar over-consumption is damaging to one's health. In the Vice article, the writer made an eyebrow-raising statement when she said, "sugar is devoid of any real nutrition, messes with your metabolism, and rots your teeth...How bad could it really be?" This was interesting to me because I always thought sugar was an extremely important source of energy and that our body had a built function to regulate the amount of sugar we consume. Hilary Pollack reported on a study found "in the journal Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience," the authors of the study concluded that sugar over-consumption could be analogous to "experiencing serious trauma" when they studied female rats. These results are important because it demonstrated that sugar over-consumption as a child can also be similar to experiencing serious trauma. Thus, I can understand why sugar over-consumption is an important issue considering the results of the "University of New South Wales Australia and the Indian Council of Medical Research study" (pollack, 2016).
This is an important issue because people who are addicted to drugs experience the same thing and many of us have seen what the terrible things that drug addiction can do to a person. Thus, sugar over-consumption can and should be considered an addiction that can cause serious mental and physical harm (Swerdloff, 2016). I am in favor of regulating or even banning certain high sugar foods such as soda or industrial ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup to curb this problem. In Canada we regulate many addictive drugs, why not