As far back as 500 BC, it was understood that high levels of sugar in the body (and excreted in the urine) was part of the pathology of Diabetes. By the late 1700s, it had become clear that, once eaten, the starchy foods we consumed were converted to sugar internally, and that, not only the […]
Fueling an Apex Species
Although the modern diet is primarily made up of processed and refined grains and carbohydrates (an effect of the agricultural revolution which began circa 10,000 BC), this is quite a recent phenomena in human history and runs counter to the way humans ate for millions of years … bursts of animal fat and protein fresh […]
Sweet (Brain) Death
For decades sugar was promoted as a health food that did everything from fight fat to energize you, the 1950s – 1970s saw some of the most brazen and manipulative marketing ever pushed on the American public. Rivaled in its guile only by the infamous health promoting cigarette ads of the same period, sugar was […]