Cuban Cane Sugar 



week to the family 421 pounds a 

 year some of us eat less, and some 

 of us eat more. The figures repre- 

 sent our actual national average. 



In two short generations we have 

 developed a national sweet tooth 

 which calls for more than four times 

 the sugar it formerly got. 



Why? 



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If we look for a moment at the 

 sugar consumption of some of our 

 less fortunate neighbors we may be 

 able to see the reason, and to read 

 the curious relation which seems to 

 exist between sugar and prosperity. 



While we are eating more than 

 eight pounds of sugar a week, for 

 example, the average Serbian family 

 of five (in normal times) consumes 

 but a bare fifteen ounces; and in 

 Bulgaria, Roumania, and Italy, the 

 family consumption amounts only 

 to about a pound per week. 

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