F2349C - Sugar: from Slavery to Obesity
1 Session | Registration opens 9/24/2025 10:00 AM MST (Arizona)
Columbus brought sugar canes to the New World in 1493. Sugar production by more than six million slaves in subsequent centuries produced the "white gold" that made men rich and "addicted" millions of Europeans. The modern pandemic of obesity and diabetes is the modern result of that history.
Eugene Lariviere
Gene is a retired pediatrician from N.H. He has led many New Adventures Classes, mostly in areas of history.