Refined White Sugar

An excerpt from my book Home Safe Home:

Teaspoon for teaspoon, eating white sugar (100% sucrose) in moderation as part of a diet that is based on fresh whole foods probably is safer than using any artificial sweetner. Moderation is the key word here, for a high-sucrose diet can contribute to significant nutritional deficiencies, lower resistance to disease, tooth decay, diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart disease, ulcers, and high blood pressure. It also can stimulate you appetite and make you fat. Steer away from processed foods with high amounts of hidden sucrose (it has many names, including sugar, corn sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, and glucose syrup). Buy unsweetened products--for example, unsweetened breakfast cereal--and add sugar with discretion. Here's where reading labels can really pay off.

As a food, refined white sugar is highly contaminated, having been sprayed with multiple pesticides, processed over a natural gas flame, and chemically bleached. Refined white sugar is made from cane or beet sugar. Usually cane sugar says it is cane sugar on the label, as it is considered superior to beet.

124 ways sugar can ruin your health
This fully referenced article says it all...(scroll down to the link "Read how sugar can ruin your health").

Sugar Blues
The classic bestselling book by William Dufty. Most people never want to eat sugar again after reading this book.

SugarFactor.org
Lots of articles on all aspects of sugar and artificial sweeteners.

Dr. Mercola: Cancer's Sweet Tooth
How sugar contributes to cancer.