Sugar causes physical degeneration and disease

1444 Men taken from Lagos, Africa to Seville, Spain and sold into slavery to work the Sugar cane fields.

1454 Pope induced to extend his blessing to the slave trade and his authority to "attack, subject and reduce to slavery the Saracens, Pagans and other "enemies of Christ." Portugal becomes a prime user of slavery to promote its trade in sugar, to which people were becoming addicted.

1493 Columbus transports Sugar cane to the New World on the advice of Queen Isabela. Members of his crew acquire syphilis in Haiti.

1500 Dutch establish a Sugar refinery at Antwerp and ships sugar to Germany and England.

1510 King Ferdinand consents to recruitment of the first large contingent of African slaves in the growing Spanish sugar industry.

1515 Spanish monks offer loans in gold to anyone who would start a sugar mill.

1560 Charles V of Spain builds vast palaces using taxes on sugar trade

1573 First German sugar cane refinery at Augsburg.

1660 British find sugar pushing so profitable it becomes a matter of national security. British pass the Navigation Act of 1660 to prevent transport of sugar, tobacco, or any product of the American Colonies to any port outside England, Ireland and British possessions.

1662 Britain importing 16 million pounds of sugar per year.

1665 London swept by bubonic plague. It was noticed that people who lived without sugar escaped harm. Over 68,000 die.

1674 First mention of diabetes mellitus in British Pharmaceutice Rationalis, by Thomas Willis, member of the Royal College of Physicians.

1700 British Isles importing 20 million pounds of sugar per year.

1700 Deaths from tuberculosis increase dramatically in England and other sugar consuming countries as the body environment changes to accommodate it. 1700 Refined sugar is the most important export of France.

1733 Molasses Act of 1733 passed by Britain, putting a heavy tax on sugar and molasses coming from anywhere except the British sugar islands in the Caribbean. Sugar was also essential for production of rum (alcohol), to which a significant percentage of humans were already addicted. Tobacco, (nicotine) begins to gain more significance in world use.

1792 Anti-Saccharite Society forms in Europe to protest effect of sugar on people. It induces a British sugar boycott through Europe. The British East India companies, already involved with opium drug trafficking, uses the slavery issue for an advertising campaign "East India sugar not made by slaves", for its sugar trafficking.

1800 British sugar consumption reaches 160 million pounds per year.

1812 Napoleon awards Legion of Honor to Benjamin Dellesert for discovering how to process the beet into sugar (which replaces dependence on the sugar cane).

1812 France has mass planting of sugar beets and 500 refineries open. Over 8 million pounds of sugar are produced in one year.

1816 Britain passes an act which outlawed brewers from possession of sugar or molasses, since brewers had been adulterating their product with sugar. 1817 Second National Bank established.

1844 Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane founded. American stores giving a half pound of sugar free with purchase of five dollars or more.

1846 Former slaves in Caribbean left to manage old sugar plantations - a situation that would last until sugar plantations would eventually be taken over by the United States.

1880 In Denmark citizens consume 29 pounds each annually.

1880 Recorded death rate from diabetes in Denmark is 1.8 per 100,000.

1880 Sweden consumption of refined sugar 12 pounds per person annually.

1892 America takes the lead in world wide sugar consumption, surpassing the British. Sugar consumption would double again by 1920.

***1893 German Dr.Julius Hensel states that processed flour is devoid of nutrients.

1900 Over 6,000 people fall ill in Britain after beer is contaminated with arsenic from the production of carbonic acid gas from coal in the sugar refining process.

1910 Japan acquires a source of cheap and abundant sugar on Formosa. Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) rises dramatically in Japan.

1911 Denmark sugar consumtion 82 pounds per person annually.

1911 Death rate for diabetes in Denmark is 8 per 100,000.

1912 Dr. Robert Boesler, New Jersey dentist, notes that "modern manufacturing of sugar has brought about entirely new diseases. Sugar has caused a vast degeneration of the people."

1922 Coca-Cola plant built in Ashtabula, Ohio. The drink contains coal tar derivatives , flavoring, and massive amounts of sugar.

1923 Canadian physician Frederick Banting receives Nobel Prize for discovery of a way to extract the hormone insulin , which permitted control of blood sugar in those with diabetes. This opens a whole new medical market because of the growing sugar addiction in the US public.

1924 Dr. Seale Harris of the University of Alabama discovers that sugar can cause hyperinsulinism and recommends people cut sugar consumption. The medical establishment comes down on Harris and his work is suppressed. Harris would be awarded a medal by the AMA 25 years later as pharmaceuticals to control low blood sugar are developed and put into production. The basic contribution of refined sugar to the problem remains suppressed.

1929 Consumption of refined sugar in Sweden 120 pounds per person annually.

1934 Denmark sugar consumption is 113 pounds per person annually.

1934 Death rate for diabetes in Denmark is 19 per 100,000.

1939 Dr.Weston Price, a research dentist, publishes Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primative and Modern Diets and Their Effects, which proved that refined foods and sugar causes physical degeneration and disease and opposed to natural unrefined foods.

1943 Dr. John Tinterta rediscovers the vital importance of the endocrine system, and connects sugar use to production of hyperadrenocortic episodes in humans intolerent to sugar, where adrenal hormones are suppressed, producing inability to think clearly, allergies, inability to handle alcohol, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets and low blood pressure.

1948 Dr.Sander, Vet Admin, discovers sugar intake related to polio development.

1948 In North Carolina, Dr. Benjamin P. Sandler reveals that sugar and starches lower the blood sugar level, producing hypoglycemia, and that soda pop (recently introduced) contains phosphoric acid that absorbs phosphorus and sulfates in food before natural metabolism can get it to the nervous system, causing the nerve trunks to fail to function properly. Sandler says that dairy products and sugared soft drinks are aggravating the incidence of polio.

1949 Noticing that polio strikes most in the summer, when children increase their intake of sugar, Dr. Sandler warns residents to cut down on sugar and dairy products in North Carolina. Polio cases dramatically decrease to 249. (See 1948).

1950 The 1948 findings of Dr. Sandler in North Carolina are denegrated in the public media, who claims that Sandlers findings are a "myth."

1950 Rockefeller Milk Trust and Coca Cola force return to previous levels of sugar and dairy product consumption. Polio levels rise to pre-1949 level.


1954 Mass introduction of sugared soft drinks in the United States.

1958 Time magazine reports that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had been working for 10 years, bankrolled by the Sugar Research Foundation, to discover a way to prevent sugar causing dental decay. No remedy found.

1962 Soft drinks are consumed at 16 gallons per person per year.

1966 Department of Health Education and Welfare data reveals that 49.2% of citizens surveyed suffer from hypoglycemia, low blood sugar.

1968 Vietnamese are given US supplied processed rice (with B-complex removed) and tons of sugar. Induces mass disease in Vietnamese. Processed rice was given to replace healthly whole rice diet with unhealthy western diet.

1972 Soft drink consumption 30 gallons per year per person. ( Ref: sugar as an addictive physical degenerant.)

1973 Medical World News in March 1973 revealed data from a tobacco industry authority that cigarettes are 5% sugar, cigars 20% and 40% in some pipe tobaccos.

1973 Sugar Information Foundation places full-page advertisements in national magazines in the United States, labelling sugar a carbohydrate and a nutrient. Later, after a Senate Hearing, the National Advertising Review Board determined that the claim that sugar was a nutrient was without foundation.

1988 Discovered that ingestion of 100mg (.004 ounce) of sugar reduces the immune functions in the body by 50% within one hour. Other studies confirm that excessive sugar consumption may increase the incidence of infections and reduce the body's ability to defend against disease. Ref: Eat for Health, William Manahan, M.D, Tiburon Press, 1988; Robert Mendelsohn, M.D, "The Risks of Immunizations", 1988, Peoples Doctor Newsletter, Inc.

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