Can’t speak for Jack, but I remember Eighties and Nineties pop-nutrition advice associating sugar consumption (inaccurately) with hyperactivity and (more accurately, but with caveats) with tooth decay. As regards specific sugar-rich foods, I don’t recall soft drinks ever being blamed for obesity during my childhood, but candy, cake, and cookies all were at times—though this might have as much to do with fat as sugar.
Can’t speak for Jack, but I remember Eighties and Nineties pop-nutrition advice associating sugar consumption (inaccurately) with hyperactivity and (more accurately, but with caveats) with tooth decay. As regards specific sugar-rich foods, I don’t recall soft drinks ever being blamed for obesity during my childhood, but candy, cake, and cookies all were at times—though this might have as much to do with fat as sugar.