https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906894/
If you're interested in the Ted talk version:
https://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hi...
She now works at Calico, Google's longevity play. If there was one area I was going to do something besides agriculture this is what I would work on.
This is really overstated. The paper is a paper on round worms, which is really one step above basic cellular science (which is important but only a building block of the whole picture). We do not have large scale, epidemiological studies about sugar, and the ones that we do don't point to sugar behaving differently than other calories with regards to health outcomes. The problem is blood sugar not dietary sugar, and it turns out high blood sugar can come from many places that are not dietary sugar, and a calorically controlled diet that is high in sugar does not result in high average blood sugar levels.