I just found this documentary on The Hidden Story of Big Sugar , in a post from the UK’s Macrobiotics Guide .
These videos explore the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels. Using dramatic reenactments, they reveal how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. (my emphasis)
When I woke up to the amount of sugar that is completely interlaced with the modern American diet, and its damaging effects — in my case, systemic candida whose best cure remains a sugar-free diet until your system is rebalanced – I realized that recognizing sugar in my diet was a bit like recognizing the air we breathe — it’s everywhere , in everything !!
So when this page mentioned that we were slaves of sugar — we’ll that’s exactly the conclusion I couldn’t help but come to, after my trip through the land of illness and wellness as seen through the truth of candida albicans .
This page displays two, 45 minute long videos , evidently originally produced for Canadian television, on just how we got to this complete point of addiction to sugar. Hint: it’s been going on a lot longer than you may be aware, and sugar addiction is shown to be a major theme of not just Western Civilization but can be seen as the entire paradigm into which European societies conquered the Americas, concomittantly wedding Africa to their conquest. These videos are well worth watching.
The only point not covered in the videos is my personal viewpoint that alcoholism is nothing but a mis-placed sugar addiction. When I was on my sugar-free diet, recovering from candida, I spent a lot of time with a friend who’d gone through alcohol detox. She had to respect that just as she was not to have wine (nor was I, for that matter), I was not to have any sugar, so that meant bringing in a big piece of chocolate cake represented as much a threat to my recovery, as bringing in a bottle of wine would threaten her recovery. When wine and chocolate cake have the same negative health implications, you know you’re dealing with a basic substance, cutting across one of society’s biggest socialization tools: food.
Tags: addiction, candida, fair trade, macrobiotics.co.uk, sugar —