SYSK Selects: Sugar: It Powers the Earth

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Since sugar spread from Polynesia a few thousand years ago, the world has been crazy for it. Insanely high prices, wars and even slavery couldn't undo world's need for a sugar fix. Today that fix is responsible for the obesity epidemic facing the West. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.4	Hi friends, sugar is delicious and it is also not very good for you.
0:36.2	We did an episode on sugar from June 12, 2014.
0:39.8	Sugar, colon, it powers the earth and it truly does.
0:43.3	It's a lot to this one.
0:44.4	I probably could have done it too part, but we shrunk it down into one episode as we try to do.
0:49.0	And here we go with sugar right now.
0:55.6	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:05.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:06.9	I'm Josh Clark.
1:07.9	There's Charles DeVie Chuck Bryant.
1:09.6	Howdy.
1:11.9	Hi sugar.
1:17.2	That's a, I was thinking about the early, that's an Archie song.
1:21.0	Oh sugar, honey honey.
1:25.0	See you called Pete your girlfriend like a sugar or a honey or your wife or whatever
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