What your mother told you about not eating sugar (or should have, if she knew anything at all), it turns out, is true! This fascinating article reveals all sorts of interesting facts about this habit-forming and poisonous chemical. There is a reason this country is full of sick (or half-sick) people.

In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr Weston A. Price, travelled all over the world-from the lands of the Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, from Africa to New Zealand. [...]

Dr Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastating conclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area, was simple. People who live under so-called backward primitive conditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined, sugared foods were imported as a result of contact with "civilisation", physical degeneration began in a way that was definitely observable within a single generation.