I can find nothing in this blog that I’ve noted concerning sugar. There are references to slavery’s role in sugar and vice versa but not observations on its pernicious influence on the human body that I’ve run across in my reading.
So here are two of them besides Gary Taubes’ The Case Against Sugar:
As sugar was cultivated in the Caribbean islands of the British Empire sugar, while still highly expensive, began to seep into the diet of the British aristocracy. As it did so, their portraits began to display the swollen and red faces indicative of sugar’s effects.
Much the same happened to the wealthiest of the Mongols. While most Mongols were lean and hungry men, their wealthiest leaders had access to sugar from the Mediterranean islands and their bodies show sugar’s effects.
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