The Sweet Lie

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - In the Beginning, There Was Sugar
2. Chapter Two - The Health Panic
3. Chapter Three - The Sweet Swap
4. Chapter Four - The Rise of the Minx
5. Chapter Five - Tricking the Tongue
6. Chapter Six - The New Normal
7. Chapter Seven - How Cravings Became a Business Model
8. Chapter Eight - What You’re Really Drinking
9. Chapter Nine - Why Quitting Feels Like Breaking Up
10. Chapter Ten - The Exit Ramp
11. Chapter Eleven - A Toast to the Ones Who Saw Through It

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE In the Beginning, There Was Sugar THERE WAS A time when sweet meant special. Not standard. Not expected. Special. A ripe mango. A drizzle of honey. A rare piece of candied fruit. Sweetness was a gift. A celebration. A moment. And then we industrialized it. Sugar didn’t start off evil. It started off powerful. Ancient societies prized it like gold. The Persians were boiling sugarcane as early as 500 BCE. By the Middle Ages, sugar was a luxury in Europe — used sparingly in medicine and upper-class kitchens. But by the 1600s, things took a darker turn. Sugar plantations exploded across the Caribbean. And what fueled them? Slavery. Millions of Africans were stolen and enslaved to...