Anita Ferruzzi examines the troubled relationship between sucrose and eating disorders.
December 2003's Issue
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The Sugar Trap
It was the first ‘consumer’ product. Now it lies behind the very first epidemic diseases of corporate globalization. David Ransom suggests a cure.
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Refined White
Michael Berry tells the untold story of the South Sea Islanders who built the sugar industry in Australia.
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Dirty Business
Almaz Mequanint grew up in a sugar-refining town in Ethiopia. Clemens JM Rolink is the General Manager of the Dutch company that built it. They exchange two very different views of the same place.
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Sugar Daddies
India is the world’s largest producer. As Dionne Bunsha reveals, it hasn’t make a sweet confection.
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Cattail Country
The Florida Everglades have been endangered, says Mark Engler, by the power of ‘Big Sugar’ in the United States.
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Tales from Tagalog
Villagers in the Philippines had their land expropriated by sugar. Now, report Devlin Kuyek and Andrew Skinner, they’re determined to get it back.
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Sweet Nothings in Cancún
Katharine Ainger reports on deadly trade negotiations in Mexico.
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