No sugar or soda is fine, I do not do a whole lot of processed sugar. Is natural sugar ok? apples/oranges and the like? I cant live without my fruit!!! It is what keeps me off of processed sugar!!!
Dr Mercola had an interesting article on his website regarding fruit consumption with regards to fructose intake
The general theme of the article was high fructose intake is bad (watch Professor Robert Lustig Sugar the bitter truth youtube video on fructose to see in detail why) as it is only metabolised by the liver (and perhaps pancreas) using the same metabolic pathway as ethanol (booze alcohol) and results in metabolic by products that raise blood pressure (uric acid I think, which can cause gout as well), particularly small and sticky lipoproteins molecules (cholesterol basically) and triglycerides that are preferentially stored as fat.
Dr Mercolas general gist is that the fructose found in whole fruit is ok as it is accompanied by lots of vitamins, minerals, anti oxidants and fibre which offset the negative aspects of the fructose so general fruit intake is ok.... HOWEVER if a person has lots of say soda/pop/processed food sweetened with high fructose corn syrup and lots of fruit in the diet potentially damaging levels of fructose may be consumed....
So basically we need to cut out the man made processed crap and eat the food that mother nature intended us to...