A few years ago I was talking to friend who lives in Peru. He was finishing his studies in something similar to a Computer Science degree. Despite being a well

A few years ago I was talking to friend who lives in Peru. He was finishing his studies in something similar to a Computer Science degree. Despite being a well educated person he did not understand that refined sugar was basically nutritionally superfluous, that it was this pure chemical substance that one regularly obtains (in some sufficiently equivalent form) from all sorts of food. It is hard for people to wrap their head around the fact that a whole powerful industry can exist to produce something so harmful and superfluous (and at the very same time destroy the environment).