So, High Fructose Corn Syrup is the real culprit not Sugar.
Uhh, you know that your body treats them as the same thing? High fructose corn syrup is just sugar?
Actually, it doesn't. Fructose get's stored more as belly fat, which has different results for the body (specifically diabetes), than compared to glucose. There was a study that looked at this.
As for the topic, it's ridiculous. Sitting around has been shown to be just as bad or worse than smoking, should we start banning and regulating how much people sit? Furthermore, how far does this go? At what point are you controlling and regulating fruit and vegetable production and consumption, seeing as how both of those are full of technical sugars?
Besides, there's studies that show moderate alcohol consumption is good for the body. I believe I remember a study that showed sugars are primarily responsible for helping power the brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex that control higher thought.
The problem is, the human body is, from the moment it's born, on a path to destruction and death. Studies basically show that doing this leads to that, then get all up in a fit because, oh my god!, we're going to die!