Curious, isn't it? That's what happens when you take a substance out of nature and refine it to maximize its chemical surface area and biological activity.

You have been working all day and the whole day you have been craving one thing, Doughnuts! You are without even knowing it, addicted. Not to doughnuts but but to the refined sugar.

What would an outside observer think of modern human behavior in relation to sugar?" Most likely they would think humans were strange animals to be so utterly controlled by a crystalline white substance. Refined white sugar is like dietary crack, and it rots out your teeth just like meth, only slower.


The truth is, most American consumers are so addicted to sugar that they will deny their addictions in the same way that a crack or heroin addict might. And yet, when it comes down to it, sugar controls their behavior. If they don't have their sugar in the morning (in their coffee, pancakes and cereals), sugar at lunch (in the salad dressing, pasta sauce, soda and restaurant food) and sugar at dinner (there's sugar in pizza, ketchup and BBQ sauce), then they suffer serious withdrawal symptoms and go crazy with moodswings and irritability they also may even become sweaty and light-headed.Curious, isn't it? That's what happens when you take a substance out of nature and refine it to maximize its chemical surface area and biological activity.

• Cocaine is a drug that's refined from coca leaves. 
• Opium is a drug that's refined from poppies. 
• And sugar is a drug that's refined from sugarcane. 

And while we have a "war on drugs" against cocaine and heroin, our taxpayer dollars actually subsidize the sugar industry, making refined white sugar cheap and widely available to the entire population so that everyone can be equally hooked.

sn't it curious how, in modern society, we fight a war against certain drugs (like cocaine), yet subsidize others? (Like sugar.) The difference, of course, is that the sugar industry has a powerful political lobby and is universally abused by virtually the entire population. Drugs that are abused by only a few (such as heroin) get outlawed, while drugs that are abused by everyone (such as caffeine and sugar) receive legal immunity. It's mob rule. And the mob is addicted to sugar.