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As the price of a pound of sugar has dropped over the centuries—from the equivalent of 360 eggs in the thirteenth century to two in the early decades of the twentieth—the amount of sugar consumed has steadily, inexorably, climbed.
wow
By the 1920s, sugar refineries were producing as much sugar in a single day—millions of pounds—as would have taken refineries in the 1820s an entire decade.
Incredible.
Annual per capita sugar consumption in the depth of the Great Depression was sixteen pounds higher than it had been in 1920.
interesting ....
“When we think of Communism,” read a sign at the conference, “we think of the Iron Curtain. BUT when THEY think of democracy, they think of Coca-Cola.”
ha!
Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange growers in California and Florida burdened with surplus oranges during years of glut.
Road to Wigan Pier
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“It is true that dental caries was not a major health and economic hazard until refined sugar was made available,” wrote the Northwestern University chemist L. S. Fosdick in 1952. “Even today dental caries is not a major disease in those countries where refined sugar is a luxury.”
Wow
By 1952, the University of Minnesota nutritionist Ancel Keys was arguing that high blood levels of cholesterol caused heart disease, and that it was the fat in our diets that drove up cholesterol levels. Keys had a conflict of interest: his research had been funded by the sugar industry—the Sugar Research Foundation and then the Sugar Association—since 1944, if not earlier, and the K-rations he had famously developed for the military during the war (the “K” is said to have stood for “Keys”) were loaded with sugar. This might have naturally led him to perceive something other than sugar as the
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Wow.
“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year,” as the University of London nutritionist John Yudkin wrote in 1963 of the situation in England. “Sugar provides about 20 percent of our total intake of calories and nearly half of our carbohydrate.”
If you're not reading "The Case Against Sugar," I recommend starting it today. Really eye-opening information.
Sweet and Dangerous
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From this perspective of cancer as a metabolic disease, insulin and IGF promote the cancer process through a series of steps. First, insulin resistance and elevated levels of insulin trigger an increased uptake of blood sugar (glucose) as fuel for precancerous cells.
interesting information for people who are hypoglycemic ....when your body makes too much insulin....like Mom
