Ancient peoples thrived on diets of low-carb fare. Sweet foods were often a rarity. In the past 200 hundred years, the U.S. average consumption of dietary sugars per capita went from under 10 pounds to over 140 pounds a year. Please read the New Germ Theory and then decide. Sugar, Bacteria, and Dental Decay.
Proteins are chains of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.
They are complex molecules that fold into flexible, yet stable, structures. Proteins are the major constituent of life as we know it. If one views DNA as a vessel of knowledge, then proteins would be the expression of these ideas. If DNA were Pandora's box, then proteins would be the emotions that escape. Enzymes are special proteins that catalyze the chemical reactions necessary for life.