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Chocolate and HealthOrdinary sugar is an extraordinary food. Sugar
is pure sensation, crystallized pleasure. All
human beings share an innate liking for its
sweetness, which we first experience in
mother’s milk, and which is the taste of the
energy that fuels all life. Thanks to this deep
appeal, sugar and sugar-rich foods are now
among the most popular and widely consumed
of all foods. In centuries past, when sugar was
rare and expensive, they were luxuries
reserved for the wealthy and for the climax of
the meal. Today sugar is cheap, and
manufactured sweets have become everyday,
casual pleasures, affordable and entertaining
morsels. Some are soothing classics, cream
and sugar cooked into rich brown caramels, or
clear sugar tinted to look like a shard of
stained glass. And others are provocative
novelties with glaringly unnatural colors,