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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 468575" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Historical perspective...</p><p></p><p>Back even a hundred years ago: sugar was expensive. Therefore, you did not use sugar... except for really special occasions. For most families, that meant: Christmas, weddings and funerals. That was IT. The rest of the year - honey if you had or found a hive, maple syrup if you had trees (birch makes decent substitute), dried fruit - but no sugar.</p><p></p><p>When they did have it, it was a few days of sugar high for everybody - and then, life went back to normal.</p><p></p><p>NOW - its sugar, sugar, sugar, a hundred times a day. Even plain old applesause - you have to watch, or its "sweetened". Our bodies are bombarded with the stuff... and there's no way we were build to handle THAT much sugar.</p><p></p><p>We let the kids have a few over-the-top days on longer breaks (xmas, summer) - because "even grandpa got that much". But not day-to-day!</p><p></p><p>I still prefer sugar to the artificial substitutes. If they have to describe the chemical chain... there's no way its even close to natural!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 468575, member: 11791"] Historical perspective... Back even a hundred years ago: sugar was expensive. Therefore, you did not use sugar... except for really special occasions. For most families, that meant: Christmas, weddings and funerals. That was IT. The rest of the year - honey if you had or found a hive, maple syrup if you had trees (birch makes decent substitute), dried fruit - but no sugar. When they did have it, it was a few days of sugar high for everybody - and then, life went back to normal. NOW - its sugar, sugar, sugar, a hundred times a day. Even plain old applesause - you have to watch, or its "sweetened". Our bodies are bombarded with the stuff... and there's no way we were build to handle THAT much sugar. We let the kids have a few over-the-top days on longer breaks (xmas, summer) - because "even grandpa got that much". But not day-to-day! I still prefer sugar to the artificial substitutes. If they have to describe the chemical chain... there's no way its even close to natural! [/QUOTE]
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