Trio of interesting NYT's articles on diet, fitness and health

[emily_in_nc]

heh, I eat plenty of dark chocolate. And I made shortbread the other day after discovering how little sugar is in them. (1 cup for 4.5 cups of flour)

White flour might as well be sugar - it's pure simple carbohydrate and converts to "sugar" in your body.

Sorry! It's a shame...I'm a sugar-a-holic too.

[PamNY]

White flour might as well be sugar - it's pure simple carbohydrate and converts to "sugar" in your body.

That's what I'd always thought, but the sugar article says no.

I don't know what to believe. I've always felt it silly to demonize a particular food, and "calories in vs. calories out" seems to work for me. Apparently there's more to it.

Besides, I like any logic that makes shortbread a good thing.

[indysteel]

Pam, the article tries to counter the conventional wisdom that the only thing insidious about sugar is that can make you fat. The studies highlighted in the article suggest that sugar is much more harmful than that and that it is indeed more complicated than calories in/calories out.