IMO cane sugar isn't bad for you
as much as corn syrup and high
fructose corn syrup and the laboratory
made artificial sweeteners.
In my folks time when they were
young and worked on farms,
they used lots of sugar and raised
sugar cane and made cane syrup
and probably consumed as much
plain old sugar and ribbon cane
syrup and pure honey as 2 people
do now.
They didn't have any kinds of
artificial sweeteners and the chemical
junk we have today.
FWIW diabetes was pretty rare in
their time just like food allergies
unlike what we have today.
Many don't realize that the reason
that artificial sweeteners like HFCS
are used so much today is that
they're cheaper, not because they're
better.
My folks consumed what today's
doctors would say is an unhealthy
amount of sugars and meat and
meat grease and salt. But they
didn't have the amounts of nearly
fatal food related illnesses that
we have today
I've heard a bunch of bs medical
advice in my short lifetime, and
most of it see-saws back and forth
between being a killer and a life
giving nutritional source.
I've heard eggs are bad- eggs are good
beans are bad- beans are good
Tomatoes. .
Potatoes. .
Onions. . .
Bacon and cured meat. . . .
Cold drinks. . .
Pastries and cakes. . .
Etc. Etc.
Just name anything, and they'll
condemn it one year and praise
it the next
Not that gubmint research grants
have anything to do with the
confusion. . . . Lordy no ! No way