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Stop Villainizing Sugar for Widespread Weight Gain - IIFYM - IIFYM. If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then donuts may as well be a one-way ticket to the Grim Reaper. Let’s face it, after determining your daily intake through the IIFYM calculator, you may as well not even think about enjoying candy with some of those available macros, right? Well, not so much… Despite how bad of a rap sugar consumption gets from mainstream media, the scientific community and their well-supported research show quite a different story.

Before you vow to never tempt your taste buds with the sweet taste of that evil substance. Or, lock your kids away in an organic garden. Below are some considerations and legitimate scientific research to shed light into what professionals in the nutritional science community are saying about sugar. Before delving any further into the topic. Dextrose (glucose), sucrose (table sugar), fructose (fruit sugar), and galactose (sugar in milk), and a synthetically derived form of sugar – high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are common “sugars”.