1. Can you imagine eating 16 sugar cubes at one sitting? You probably have. That's a little less than what is contained in a 20 ounce bottle of cola.
2. Can't escape them: Sugars are the building blocks of carbohydrates, the most abundant type of organic molecules in living things.
3. Sugar may give you wrinkles via a process called glycation, in which excess blood sugar binds to collagen in the skin, making it less elastic.
4. People in India have been crystallizing cane sugar for at least 2,000 years. When Alexander the Great's companions arrived there, they marveled at the production of honey without bees.
5. In 1747 German chemist Andreas Marggraf discovered that the sugar in sugar beet is identical to that in sugar cane. In 1802 the first beet-sugar refinery began operations, bringing cheap sweets to northern climes.
6. The artificial sweeteners saccharin and aspartame were found accidentally when lab workers doing research that had nothing to do with sweetening put a bit of the test compounds in their mouths and liked what they tasted.
7. What kind of researcher sticks an experiment in their mouth?
8. At least he had an excuse. The scientists who discovered sucralose (now sold as Splenda) were originally trying to create an insecticide. An assistant thought he had been instructed to "taste" a compound he'd only been asked to "test."
9. Soft drinks with artificial sweeteners may actually help make you fat. In a Purdue University study, rats drinking liquids with artificial sweeteners consumed more calories overall than rats whose drinks were sweetened with sugar.
These facts are a direct lift from getsoilednow website and he took them from some friend of his. Just wanted to share with you guys...
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