Curious Cook: Supernormal diets

Most people have normally exceeded the upper limit for daily sugar intake when they have cereal for breakfast, as this can contain up to 20g of sugar. — SASCHA BOSSHARD/Unsplash

The world’s current human overweight/obesity crisis and metabolic syndrome pandemic may have their roots in a common, simple error: Too many people think that modern food is always a source of nutrition.

The mistake is easy to make, as people know dietary nutrition can only be acquired by eating, but people are less aware that eating by itself is not always the same as acquiring nutrition.