Sugar

Sugar Blues by William Dufty makes some fascinating observations about the history of refined sugar. Here are a few that interested me:

• Production of sugar cane was the main use for slaves and the main income for the worldwide expansion of the British empire.
• Diabetes and countless other diseases and symptoms are caused by sugar poisoning. Insulin as a treatment for diabetes is absurd, merely a pharmaceutical life-time drug dependency. Nutritional, herbal and other ancient remedies can totally cure diseases, unlike most pharmaceuticals.
  
• Refined sugar has only existed for about 400 years. The same technology used to process cane to white sugar also allowed heroin to be refined from the poppy.
  
• From 1500 AD, Herbal healers and wise people were the main opposition to the new sugar from the New World. This coincides with the witch-hunts and the start of so-called modern medicine through corrupt court physicians and the European aristocracy, who became supremely powerful as their subjects became hooked on sugar and the ruling class controlled the international trade, by murder and slavery.
• The sugar added to tobacco may be the main contributor to smoking related diseases, with UK tobaccos showing the most harm and containing the most additives.
  

MSG (monosodium glutamate) causes brain damage. Eating MSG during pregnancy will lead to brain damage in the offspring.
MSG causes holes in the brain of mice. This led to MSG being taken out of baby food.
Aspartame does the same thing.