After reading Lustig's essay, were you persuaded toward his conclusion that sugar is toxic and should be considered dangerous and regulated in much the same way as tobacco and alcohol? What were the strongest arguments in the essay? What were the weakest?

Are you talking about The Toxic Truth About Sugar'? Do you need to analyse this essay? If you care about the plagiarism, it would be better if you check it at the guys who work at Prime Writings. Their argument, at first glance, appears to be highly logical and virtually unassailable: alcohol is regulated because it is bad for health and causes other problems for society, and so sugar which is the cause of much greater and more pervasive health problems and is also detrimental to the social and cultural fabric of the peoples of the world in a variety of ways involving the agricultural industry and global development should also be carefully regulated and controlled. The researchers cite actions taken in other countries along the same lines as a further justification of their call for more control when it comes to sugar content and consumption, and clearly spell out some of the concrete harms that increased sugar consumption has had and will have on the world's population, not just in developed/industrialized countries but in all countries adopting similar diets.