Brian D wrote:
"The serious consequence is not developing a taste for sweet flavors but developing a tolerance for sugar. That leads to type 2 diabetes as one's cells become increasingly insensitive to insulin. People overexposing themselves to carbohydrates require more and more food to get the physical feeling of satiety, particularly when a sedentary lifestyle means they are carrying around a lot of glucose and glycogen in the blood already."
This makes a lot of sense. ALthough I would give the "increasingly sedentary life" a lot of points too.
Joanna