Our Sweet Tooth 



why our poor are the great candy 

 consumers; their standard of living 

 is so low, and the food available to 

 them so inferior, that they feel, 

 constantly, a natural hunger which 

 they are most easily able to satisfy 

 through buying the cheaper and 

 more tempting sweets. 



From the figures, the story of sugar 

 is plain: 



As we learn more and more the 

 value of sugar as a food we buy more 

 and more as our pocket-books per- 

 mit us. Then, in times of depression 

 like those we have just gone through, 

 we eat slightly more sugar than 

 usual, unconsciously, perhaps, be- 

 cause we reduce our consumption of 

 the higher priced, less nourishing 

 food-stuffs. 



And, finally, with meats and grains 

 mounting higher and higher, while 

 sugar, because of improvement in 

 methods of production, has steadily 



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