Sugar (sort of)
If you live in an industrialized nation, it is very likely that you consume vast amounts of sugar on a daily basis, willingly or unwillingly (1). Sugar can go by so many names (2), and when it comes to scientific studies, not everything that constitutes a “sugar” (3) is going to be studied all the time in each study. Google dictionary states that the biochemical definition for sugar is “any of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and exemplified by glucose and sucrose.” (4) The problem really isn’t naturally occurring sugars, such as the carbohydrates [sugars] that would be present in fruits, but is more from added sugars (5) or sugars eaten without their natural “carriers” like the actual orange with all the fiber from the pulp and other vitamins and minerals from the actual fruit. So how is sugar related to present day colonialism? There are so many crises in the media about obesity, about too much sugar intake (6), about...