Eating a moderate amount of sugar from foods like fruit or baked goods doesn’t seem to make people gain weight or get metabolic diseases, even if you’re eating other healthy things.

Some studies say drinking sugary sodas is linked to weight gain and health problems, but eating sugar in foods like candy or cake doesn’t seem to have the same effect—so maybe how you consume sugar matters more than how much you eat.

When you eat the same number of calories from sugar or from bread or rice, you don’t gain more weight from the sugar — so sugar isn’t uniquely fattening.

Eating normal amounts of table sugar or corn syrup in your food and drinks doesn’t make you more likely to get overweight, diabetes, or heart disease than eating the same number of calories from other carbs like bread or pasta.

The presence of metabolic harm from high sugar intake does not negate or justify the cardiovascular risks associated with high saturated fat consumption.

Giving people way more sugar than anyone normally eats in a day can make them sick — but that doesn’t mean normal sugar intake is harmful.