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To: Don W
Humans actually haven't consumed more than negligible amounts of raw sugar until the large, European-owned, slave-worked, sugar plantations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century.
15 posted on 05/12/2008 11:19:22 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: VanShuyten

Other than what they ate in fruit and vegetables. From forever.


22 posted on 05/12/2008 11:36:54 PM PDT by Don W (To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
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To: VanShuyten
"Humans actually haven't consumed more than negligible amounts of raw sugar until the large, European-owned, slave-worked, sugar plantations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. "

Prior to that, tooth decay wasn't much of a problem either.

31 posted on 05/13/2008 12:03:20 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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