Are there "essential" carbs?? Or is sugar really "toxic"?

Lots of interesting articles out and about with regard to low carb diets. Here's an interesting article to the New York Times, with an in-depth article about the perception that sugar has among some today, as well as some of the history related to changes in perception with regards to sugar and subsets such as high-fructose corn syrup. Interesting read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html