Reddit mentions of Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

Thank you for your educated insights in the discussion and I agree one must do further research and consult his or her physician before enacting any sort of treatment.

Regarding negative side effects of Boron, per NIH:

"Boron is LIKELY SAFE for adults and children when used in doses less than the Upper Tolerable Limit (UL) (see dosage section below). There is some concern that doses over 20 mg per day, the UL for adults, might harm a man’s ability to father a child."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/894.html

Boron and its use in humans is interesting to myself because:

"There is no Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for boron since an essential biological role for it has not been identified."

and thus there are US few studies I have ever come across in my research. If one goes off the the standard scientific "grid" as-it-were and study anecdotal claims made by bodybuilders, ostensibly Boron helps to balance the endocrine system and seems to increase testosterone. However of course, these are simply anecdotal examples and not scientific evidence (myself excluded). I found this interesting and it does cite references, but it is nothing groundbreaking:

http://www.dcnutrition.com/minerals/detail.cfm?RecordNumber=47

Iodine is a touchy subject among some medical professionals if one does enough research. The only thing seem to be agreed upon is it is an important trace element and prevents goiter, the dosing amounts or how it should be distributed to the populace are usually subject to debate.

Regarding getting the RDA prescribed by NIH via salt in the diet, per Harvard:

"Most Americans take in more sodium than they need. Almost all of it comes from salt. But here's the rub: between 75% and 90% of sodium in the average American's diet comes from prepared or processed food, and most food companies don't use iodized salt. The so-called hidden salt in processed food is a great place to start trimming sodium from your diet, and cutting back on it will have little effect on your iodine intake.

To get all your iodine from salt, you would need more than half a teaspoon of iodized salt a day. That's two-thirds of the daily allotment of sodium (1,500 milligrams) recommended by the American Heart Association."

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Heart_Letter/2011/June/cut-salt-it-wont-affect-your-iodine-intake

WebMD adds:

"Iodized salt is now the main source of iodine in the American diet, but only about 20% of the salt Americans eat contains the micronutrient, Dasgupta says."

"Dasgupta and colleagues recently tested 88 samples of iodized salt and found that 47 of them, or 53%, did not meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recommendations for iodine levels.

Iodine levels tended to decrease in individual containers with exposure to humidity, but light and heat had little effect.

The findings are published in the latest online issue of the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology."

"Iodine is important in the production of thyroid hormones and critical to normal brain development in newborn infants and children. Iodine deficiency is the leading preventable cause of cretinism in the developing world. And at least one study suggests that children in developed countries born to iodine-deficient moms may have an increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)."

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20080201/can-us-shake-iodine-deficiency-risk

Thus, many Americans may be iodine deficient if they expect to get their RDA in their diets through iodized salt alone.

Regarding sugar, John Yudkin offered just the opposite opinion in his book, "Pure, White, and Deadly". I would type from it if I could find my copy as it an interesting read, however Robert Lustig M.D. makes the same essential argument in this 2009 video starting here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dBnniua6-oM#t=1218

Dr. Lustig goes on to show metabolically how and why fructose is toxic and shares metabolic characteristics with ethanol when being processed by the human body. You may find it interesting having a scientific background, I know when I first viewed it in 2013 I needed to watch it twice to fully understand his evidence not having such a background.

http://www.amazon.com/Pure-White-Deadly-Sugar-Killing-ebook/dp/B00CHQOVDC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420169604&sr=1-2&keywords=yudkin+pure+white+and+deadly