Curious as to why sugar has such a pernicious grip on modern societies?

The preternaturally gifted Alan Goldhamer, author of The Pleasure Trap, explains it beautifully here:

the nutrient to toxin ratio

Our bodies are designed to deal with toxins, we have elimination pathways: immune system function, breath, sweat, pee, poo, etc.

There is no such thing as a body without toxins, the body is in a continual state of elimination of toxins, 24/7/365 birth to death. Toxins come from inside (endogenous) and outside (exogenous). Endogenous ones comes from cell die off (a considerable base line load that never goes away), and other ongoing immune system function. For most of us exogenous comes mostly from what we put in our mouth.

We are unaware of toxic elimination processes when in a state of health. But when the sum of internal generation and consumption of toxins becomes greater than than elimination capacity, symptoms arise, and health begins a degeneration process.

There is a "toxic load threshold", and when exceeded, symptoms arise. One definition of "state of heath" is "lack of symptoms".

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The body's self healing mechanisms are a function of the principle that our natural elimination systems keep load below threshold.
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We are not taught this principle, we are taught we need drugs and supplements to be healthy. And that nutrition is so confusing we may as well eat any ole crap we want.

Nutrition is not confusing. It's simple and clear at the base level.

Consumption of toxins includes dirty air or water, toxins in contact with skin (gasoline, paint thinner etc). We only know the system is working as it should when we are symptom free. When we develop symptoms we know our elimination systems are being overwhelmed by toxins or infectious pathogens.

There is tremendous lack of clarity among lay people about the difference between infectious pathogens and toxic overload. Both take us down, both can kill us. But they are not the same thing.

Pharmacology is really good with the infectious pathogen side of the problem, and completely counterproductive on the toxic overload side. Why would that be?

Toxic overload is typically caused by consumption of toxic "foods", and only fixed by reducing consumption of these toxins, so that load falls back below threshold. Drugs typically make the load problem worse. Why would that be?

Drugs are not food.

How many folks do you know on multiple medications that are becoming healthy as a result?

Recreational drugs "intoxicate" us. yipee! But make no mistake, they add to our pre-existing toxic load.

The only materials that are not toxic are clean air, water, and food. All foods have some degree of toxicity also, and it varies considerably depending on what we are willing to call "food".

So ideally we put in our bodies only the foods that have the highest nutrition to toxin ratio. Everything else is suspect. refined fractionated products sold to us as health promoting are not food, they are supplements or drugs. They are "foreign" to the body.

They can in certain instances be a good thing. They can be life savers. With the guidelines of these principles one can evaluate the cost benefit ratios of putting foreign substances (not food) into the body. It will vary considerably depending on circumstances. Generally the benefits of consuming drugs etc is greatly overstated.

These principles can help us "use medicine intelligently". Big Pharma will happily sell us loads of poo poo too.

A powerful presentation on the obvious...that is still not obvious: Dr Michael Klaper

Dr Klaper deserves our complete attention and appreciation for the work he is doing to wake us up.

Bravo, Dr Klapper.