Sugar: It Powers the Earth
Sugar: It Powers the Earth
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Since sugar spread from Polynesia a few thousand years ago, the world has been crazy for it. Insanely high prices, wars and even slavery couldn’t undo world’s need for a sugar fix. Today that fix is responsible for the obesity epidemic facing the West.