Yeah and chocolate straight up kills dogs, so what's your point?<p>I don't see anyone shilling against coffee which is literally a drug like alcohol and tobacco however.<p>Same people who want me to avoid sugar also want me to not use butter and instead use v*getable oils for cooking so I'm not sure why their opinion matters.<p>From all these meme studies, the only thing that I've learned is that you can take an obese landwhale, feed them whatever you dislike, and observe the complications totally caused by the thing you gave them and not the fact that they cannot physically move without a motorized 4 wheeled scooter which in fact has nothing to do with the type of food you eat.<p>My issue with this non-study is that it doesn't look like they forced sugar-drinking rats to work harder than rats that didn't gain those extra calories, nor did they mention any weight changes whatsoever. Why do I care? Because it has been proven that obesity can in fact cause brain damage. From cholesterol clogging your arteries and killing braincells that way to other random inflammations, this is the main way to turn into a vegetable. As if I need to tell you that obesity and retardation is literally inseparable. Of course, there are studies that "prove" that obesity doesn't lead to lower intelligence, but I wonder how did they test this considering your intelligence has to be low to become obese in the first place.