Sugar-coating the message about a danger equal to smoking in public

Kevin McPartlan’s (Irish Examiner, April 9) complaint about a tax on sugary drinks is, at most, at a sideshow to a far bigger picture.

The current worldwide epidemic of obesity is caused by all the sugar that is embedded in food and drink rather than by fats in those meals. Now until relatively recently that statement was generally seen as scientific nonsense.

However that ‘scientific consensus’ itself is now seen to a scandal of historic proprtions; arguably the greatest scientific scandal of the past century.