Sugar is Rotten Says Author
Sugar is Rotten Says Author
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Wireless Flash) If it wasnt for sugar, there would have never been slavery in the U.S. if a strange new theory by a Brooklyn-based cookbook author is correct. Andrew Smith says the U.S. slave industry started because the New World needed bodies to work on sugar plantations and claims the world would be a much better place if sugar had never been invented. Smith also says many wars have had sugar industry ties and claims that General William Rufus Shafter, who fought in the Spanish-American war, lost a potential presidential nomination because of his obesity caused by sugar. Shafter weighed more than 300 pounds and in Smiths words, ...was too fat to make it up San Juan Hill. However, Teddy Roosevelt did make it and the rest is history. Smith insists a world without sugar would be free of obesity, toothaches and Richard Simmons videos, but even he cant be a sourpuss about sugar all the time. He admits hes a sucker for good chocolate.
Mon 12-31-01