Our Sweet Tooth 



And during the following ten 

 years 1900 and 1910 a period rec- 

 ognized as one of unprecedented, 

 general prosperity, we abandoned 

 restraint, and our sugar consumption 

 jumped from 66.6 pounds to 81.6 



pounds per capita per annum. 



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It would be putting the cart before 

 the horse, however, to say that we 

 use more sugar because we are 

 more prosperous. 



The simple fact is that we have 

 come more and more to realize that 

 sugar is a good food; as our pros- 

 perity has increased we have been 

 better able to buy the foods we 

 wanted or needed; in times of ad- 

 versity we have merely cut down on 

 those foods which cost more and 

 gave us less value. 



Where formerly we were told that 

 sugar exercised an injurious physical 

 effect, we know now that it is pos- 

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