How Sugar Enslaved the World

Tbh I am incredibly suprised no one has ever perhaps tried actually regulating what should and not should be in our own food

this is so true! everything has sugar in it. i wanted to by a fish sauce for cooking and every product had sugar in it. my only option was buying colatura di alici, an italian fish sauce that costed 100€ per liter... sure the taste was phenomenal but i dont want to have to pay that much just to avoid sugar

I would also add the Marshall Sahlins article answering Sydney Mintz called "the sadness of sweetness" 100% worth reading.

One side note on Tony Chocelony.... Well they started good, but now they couple their name to Ben and Jerry's wich is as we all should know a Nestle company. So they work together with the company who states that fresh water isn't a human right for fair trade !??! If you want good chocolate from a company wich hasn't sold it's soul go somewere else like Naturata.

I love your voice bb

You can add a more recent development using government-subsidized corn in the U.S., high fructose corn syrup. This has replaced sugar in some products in the U.S. Personally, I cut back on sugar getting used to coffee & tea with no sugar. But I'd rather have sugar than artificial sweeteners (with the exception of concern about tooth decay -such as in chewing gum).

sugar and carbs is dangerous that is why indonesian accept "fasting" culture from islam and buddism, because we have too many groundfood, carbs and everything is sweet in equator.

It’s almost as if you only know modern history if any

Why do you act like a child when it comes to anything sexual?

Buck Rogers was a truly great family show, like The Fall Guy or The Six Million Dollar Man.

It's not true that sugar was a luxury. Wild honey was one of the basic food for people who lived in forest regions of Europe. Also honey bees ware domesticated thousand years ago and honey was produced in ancient Egypt, Rome, and whole medieval Europe.

There was no transatlantic slave trade

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Notice even in the 1950s people were thinner. We see this in old movies even the clips shown here. Small children are getting adult onset diabetes. The medical costs will end health insurance for most.

You almost ignore how hard on your body it is to cut sugar cane and then how risky it is to burn down the land were the plantation was.

This was incredibly insightful, great vid keep up the good work!

""Have you ever consumed sugar... or PCP?""

Amazing video. Brilliant

If people stop paying for sugary products the demand would go down and food companies would need to change their ingredients. Most food companies don't care what they sell to consumers as long as people buy it and companies make as much profit. Eat healthy and read nutrition labels so you know what you are buying.

Good video but you failed to mention the first European plantations was Built by the Arabs around 8th century in south Spain

Upstate New York resident. I spent 2/3 of my life over 300 pounds. Sugar straight up almost helped kill me… Quit it. It’s poison. Make the change and reap the rewards 🙏

One of the greatest modern killers is sugar.

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I almost spat out my coffee laughing when you said you were on the internet all day for "work reasons" 😄 I felt so seen.

Im far more concerned with processed grain it constitutes the highest portion of calories in the American diet and is high glycemic just like sugar. Hence why the majority of calories come from a combination of processed grain and industrial seed/grain oils.

I love how the American dietary food pyramid recommends consuming the majority of our diet as low fat grain carbohydrates, with no apparent “ Evil” sugar, modern grains cause a higher insulin spike than refined sugar. Ancient Egyptians , being high bread consumers, were probably the first civilization to show the physical effects of over consuming carbohydrates( man boobs and paunch bellies, their statues didn’t lie)Heeding the modern dietary advice is what will lead to the predicted collapse of “Medicare” the canary in the coal mine , end product of a pyramid scheme !Kudos for your comprehensive research and content of this video!

Sugar cane actually has fiber so it's not bad but pure sugar is terrible.

Hi Jochem. In the early 60's the cane growers in the U.S. convinced the government to ban cheaper imports of cane sugar (we were all threatened with the price of a bottle of pop going up from 10 cents to 15 cents, and we were quite traumatized by the threat....). The soft drink industry got around it by switching to corn syrup, which is what all the soft drink makers have used ever since.

LOL WUT have you tried growing sugar cane in POLAND? Or RUSSIA? When you start inserting you political biases it discredits your video.

very interesting and well researched.

"A substance you can't escape". Poison, in the quantities we ingest. I had no idea I was prediabetic until a blood test revealed it. My kidneys have been negatively affected. I used to be known as the 'king of desserts', counted on to bring the best sweets to every kind of gathering. I ate sugary 'foods' like there was no tomorrow, unaware that for me, and others, there might not be.

Getting added sugar out of my diet was easy. I left pre-diabetes behind. Now my focus is on healing my kidneys as much as possible. While making all our own food/meals is impractical, manufacturers need to become aware that we would still buy their products without the glut of added sugars.

When/where I went to high school, there was the yearly tour of the local sugar mill (across the street, basically) with the idea of inspiring students, if you were a good student maybe you'd get a job there. That "sugar in the raw" you find in stores is sugar-mill sugar, that smell/taste is exactly what a sugar mill smells like. Nostalgia in a packet for me.

I think it's something like half a teaspoon a day was the norm 'way back when. Plus, calories taken in overall were a lot lower, plus everyone walked a lot. Look at stats on the Amish, that was pretty much the norm. Also people used to routinely kick out at age 50 so there's that ....

Its interesting how you can measure the level of development that a civilization will have in the old days simply looking to the ratio of energy they can obtain of their food by the work and time they needed to harvest it. Looking in that perspective, you can explain the explosion of development of europe after the fifth century. They obtain a new form of high concentrated source of energy and the labor was doing by slaves. The perfect formula to develop a society. The people had abundance of food and time to dedicate to intelectual endeavors.

Good video. But fair trade is a scam

Good video

I have been a type-1 diabetic for over 56 years. Naturally, it was expected of me to avoid over consumption of "food" products containing sugar. However, for a long time, I was not a poster child for Diabetes... meaning I used to do my fair amount of cheating on my diet. Ironically, I've done more damage to my teeth than to the rest of me.
But what I used to get away with as a youngster, I no longer can do so as a senior citizen. My diet today consists of raw fruits, peanut butter and nutritional yeast. The fruits because of their carbs and micro-nutrients, the peanut butter because of its protein content, and the nutritional yeast because it supplies me not only with protein but Vitamin B-12... something that most vegans have to be especially focused on acquiring.
Has it been easy for me to follow this diet?
Yes. I refuse to even touch anything with sugar these days.
Believe me, no human being needs this crap in their meals. Especially, if you read the ingredient labels of processed foods, that not only do they often contain a lot of sugar but, almost as a matter of course, "natural" and artificial flavorings and colorings. Plus preservatives galore... all amounting to a paragraph-long list of pure !@#$ in 6 or 7 point type printed against a dark background (the copy itself is usually black!)

Woe befall humanity that our enzymes turn complex carbohydrates into sugars. There is actually nothing we can do except modern fad diets. Which are totally more reasonable than the basis of earlier fad diets despite them both having equally reasonable justifications based on mechanistic plausibility however since the one's that are recently failed it means the ones that that didn't must be correct and it is totally not the case that fad diets are cyclical because they are as fads not completely thought out despite the undeniably validity of their fundamental concepts. I mean what would we otherwise do? Something as preposterous as combining the correct but incomplete rationale of all the fad diets together and disregard all the unqualified claims and realize that without the reconciliation of the psychological reasons we fail to adhere long term to diets we will never escape the constant yo-yoing of pop sci dietetics? Crazy

Fun fact: there is sugar in dog food and dog treats.

Sugar unequivocally ruined the world.

in my part of Croatia we had 4 sugar factories, mostly using beets. It employed a lot of people and farmers in this big agricultural region. After joining the EU our national quota was cut by 75% and 3 factories were permanently closed. Also, I am a sugar addict.

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very nice video! Please more:)

I've read John Yudkin's "Pure white and deadly" a year ago. I can only empathize on the presented evidence and data analysis. I find it mindboggling that people believe to this day that fats, especially saturated fatty acids are dangerous and cause cardiovascular diseases. The sugar industry went wide lenghts to discredit Yudkins efforts on informing the general public about the real truth about refined sugar. Can only recommend the book, great video guys.

4 euros for kg of sugar is wild 😮

The last note was the best, indeed. We have to consider what we consume. Look into the ingredients, check where the company sources its ingredients from and figure out better diets consisting of less sugar added products.