Sugar drove 80% of enslaved Africans to the New World for brutal plantation work.
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A clear, calm look at sugar that avoids the usual panic.
This piece treats sugar less as a diet warning label and more as a long-running cultural habit. It starts with ordinary cravings, then widens into a sharper question about how sugar became such an object of suspicion.
Why you'd press play
You want the sugar panic explained without the sermon.
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