Experts: Sugar should be as controlled as tobacco, drink

Sugar is “toxic” and so harmful it should be controlled in the same way as tobacco and alcohol, according to a team of public health experts.

Three American scientists from the University of California in San Francisco maintain sugar is more than just “empty calories” that make people fat.

They argue that high-calorie, sweetened food is indirectly responsible for 35m deaths each year due to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.