Oh sugar.

Its getting a raw deal these days.
Witness Sarah Wilson, Peter FitzSimons giving it up and loving the side effects.

Dr Robert Lustig, A US Professor of Pediatrics calls it toxic in this stirring video.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
 It aint short nor sweet but definitely worth seeing.

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Some facts about sugar:

White Gold, as British colonists called it, was the engine of the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to the Americas beginning in the early 16th-century.

Profit from the sugar trade was so significant that it may have even helped America achieve independence from Great Britain.

[How Sugar Changed The World: http://www.livescience.com]

Sugar was used for medicinal purposes by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Refined sugar has no nutritional value, vitamins, minerals or fibre.

A spoonful of sugar added to the water will prolong the life of cut flowers.

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There’s heaps more info to be googled if you have the taste for it.

Think I’ll stick to cheese…