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Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

— Tom Reiss

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

— Pierre Dukan

Sugar is like a drug. If I have one bite, I need to eat it all. I can eat an entire panettone in one sitting.

— Stefano Gabbana

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

— Ralph Nader

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

— Phoebe Snow

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

— Tom Reiss

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

— Richard Sherman

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

— Chuck Norris

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

— Dan O'Brien

Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.

— Michael Moss

When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

— Ronnie Montrose

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