But national sugar consumption has fallen since the early 2000s despite rising rates of obesity

https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Su...

I think it has more to do with 'too many calories' than blaming sugar.

Does "sugar" include high fructose corn syrup?

Because a lot of US sweetener consumption has moved away from sugar to corn, because subsidies.

For a fun and eye-opening experiment, you can try eating less than 20% of your daily calories from carbs. For, say, a month.

For added fun, you can try to eat “too many calories” as well.

After, you can report to me how successful you were in gaining weight.

We had pop tarts and cereals and carnation instant breakfast in the 70's and 80's and kids weren't fat. Not to mention fruit roll ups and koolaid and...

Loved by kids and mom's too! I probably watched 1000 commercials that said that.