Download History of Sugar

Sink or Source ?
Sink or Source ?
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Sink or Source ?
Example of starchy food..
Sink or Source ?
Animals eat fruit as the primary source of natural sweetness…..
If an animal is looking for an alternative source of sugar
where would they look?
Honey
Almost pure fructose
Sugarcane
Polynesia
Columbus, 1500s
At first Europeans used sugar as a medicine…
But later used it as flavoring…….
Due to water pollution
Europeans needed to boil the water
Tea drinkers
The anti-depressant Prozac
increases serotonin levels by
reducing loss of it by the body
Serotonin Pathway
The drug "Ecstacy" stimulates
serotonin producing cells, which
stimulates the areas of the prefrontal
cortex that give feelings
of euphoria and mood enhancement.
12 million African slaves brought to the
Carribean to work in sugarcane fields
…..most died within 10 years
Napoleon Bonaparte
Emperor of France
..early 1800s
Sugar Beet
…grows in temperate climates!
High Fructose Corn Syrup
40-160 lbs of sugar per year = 50-200 grams per day !
An Orange = 11 grams of sugar
An Apple = 12 grams
A Peach = 8 grams
Diet soda is no better.
….studies with teenage
girls have shown
that it only encourages
caloric intake….
Sugar consumption often goes hand-in-hand
with consumption of fats, which makes the situation even worse
New USDA Diet Recomendations
Chapter 38 -
Plant Nutrition
p. 782
Plants take up whatever mineral elements are in the soil…
Plants take up whatever mineral elements are in the soil…
Some plants are “hyperaccumulators” of minerals….
Lead
…pollution near highways
Cadmium …pollution near factories
Strontium …..can be radioactive (Chernobyl)
Selenium ….Locoweed
Gold …..used to locate gold deposits
100x soil concentrations…
Plants take up whatever mineral elements are in the soil…
Some plants are “hyperaccumulators” of minerals….
These plants can be useful in “phytoremediation”