User blog comment:LondonDauntlessCorvair963/The TRUE Origins of Halloween (Not to offend religious peeps)/@comment-25183068-20131101121559/@comment-5671588-20131101225113

I did not claim that sugar is "good for you," I said it is necessary. My grandmother is diabetic, and so has to make sure her sugar level is not too high. She also has to make sure it's not too low. You need a certain amount of sugar, even though it can be toxic. What other nutrients do we need which can be toxic in large amounts? Sodium, iron, etc. Even water, which composes in essence 71% of our bodies, can easily kill you. Good health requires balance. Our bodies are made to handle small amounts of all sorts of toxins (apple seeds contain cyanide, so if you've ever eaten an apple whole, including the seeds, as I always do, you've ingested this poison) so I don't think eating candy will make you unhealthy. As I said before, eating too much candy is the problem.

The composition of a bar of chocolate (which is candy) will most likely be homogeneous, so I'm not sure how I'm committing a composition fallacy here. Other ingredients which appear in candy such as nuts and milk have benefits as well. And another thing, one doesn't become more healthy merely by abstaining from candy. You could do that and still be very unhealthy. And there are many healthy people who do occasionally eat candy. I would say most healthy people do, actually. Therefore it doesn't make sense to say that eating candy is unhealthy.

As for science books I've read, I get a lot of this info from my science textbooks. I'm currently taking chemistry. What books have you read? :3