9 science 'facts' about sugar that are completely false

Sugar! Our taste buds might love it but society has taught us to hate it by feeding our minds with ideas that sugar is addictive, toxic, and disease-inducing.

Fortunately for anyone with a sweet tooth, that's not true.

Several recent studies debunk the myth that sugar is uniformly bad for us. And in a recent book, called "The Gluten Lie," James Madison University professor Alan Levinovitz tells us why.

With help from the studies that Levinovitz cites as well as a few other expert sources, we've debunked nine sugar "facts." Here they are: