BRT, if by Norma you mean me.... yes, I have, as part of my training with the county dietitians. Written all the way back in the early 70s and rekindled by the ever sainted Lustig about 5 years ago.
Give me a couple of hours and I will burst many of Lustigs propositions and point out just where he goes wrong - same thing every time really, expect us to forget that the human body is a combination of many systems, most of which check and balance each other. No one food is a poison it is the imbalance that kills. Sadly his perfectly true core message is often lost in his 'cult pf personality'.
So yes, campaign for added sugars to be taken out of foods, but please, stop kidding yourself if you think you could survive without a sugar of any type - that would be impossible, give how your body breaks down all foodstuffs. Lustig forgets the golden rule of physiology, there is no one rule, there is no one system. As an endocrinologist he should know better - ask yourself why he is giving such a one sided message.
Sorry, but Lustig and his ilk REALLY annoy me, and quoting 40 year old nascent science to prove a point, when there is a far deeper understanding of dietetics these days, is disingenuous, at the very least. It is a pity as the basics of Lustig's rant are perfectly true. But he obfuscates the truth with his somewhat strained extrapolations - many of which there is an enormous body of science that disagrees. If he stuck to the less sensational message he would gain more kudos within the scientific community, but less adoration from the wider, less informed public. I find his version of science by charisma, if I say it often enough you must believe me politicking science to be intensely irritating... though in today's ever more soundbite society, he may be right, it may work, he may eventually get the crux of his message across.
Yudkin was right, Keys was wrong, and the book was not banned, just discredited and Coca Cola brought pressure where it could to get him blacklisted. The shame in the UK was that the British Nutrition Foundation was sponsored by Tate and Lyle.... but don't get hung up on that. It still happens to day... think of Olympic sponsors...
And Yudkin, like Lustig even now, couldn't always explain how... he could show correlations but not causality, there was a lack of knowledge of some hormones at that time. These days we know better and some of Yudkin's observations can now be proven... if someone will do the science.
And even Yudkin didn't ban sugar or deprive his kids from sweets.... his message then was moderation and more research. Well, we have the research, we just need to re-learn the idea of moderation.
So again, campaign and join the WHO in getting food manufacturers to reduce hidden sugars (and salt whilst you are at it) but don't peddle the tut that sugar is poison. It is not!
And I do apologise. But, outside the day job, I work with county dietitians and the bariatric team... it is utterly depressing. We spend 90% of our time trying to de-programme people who have internalised the weirdest of information as true!