Your Random Science News Story for the Month of September

Sugar is delicious. I don’t think I’m revealing some great surprise in saying that. Humans crave sugar because we need it to survive – it’s the best source of energy for us out there. But it was only very recently in our history on this planet that sugar became so readily available. Despite any Big Sugar assurances to the contrary, it’s contributing to our obesity epidemic. Part of that’s simply due to the fact that – since sugar’s in just about every processed food, ever – it’s way too easy to consume a bunch of calories. And if our old-school bodies don’t use them, they don’t just pee out the excess – they store that extra energy source as fat.

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But research out of Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has…