What started off as one sugar mill is now 11 with two refineries producing sugar, ethanol and power.
Recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data found that half of the U.S. population consumes at least one sugar sweetened beverage on any given day.
"They like this tea with one sugar and a little bit of milk and they consume it almost on a daily basis, and the same with people who are chocoholics, " he says.
In 1839, 53 African-born slaves on a ship bound from one Cuban sugar plantation to another attacked their captors, killing all but two, spared to help them sail back to Africa.
That's how I found myself on the back of a snowmobile, puttering uphill, under a burning spray from dozens of snow guns, to the top of Easy Street, one of Sugar Mountain's novice runs.
Actual elections yesterday in the state of Texas, primary elections, and no more interesting than the one in Sugar Land, Texas, where the former House majority leader Tom DeLay faced a challenge from three other Republicans.
One of these sugar molecules is glucose, the main energy source for your body.
The population had increased between 1824 and 1840 upwards of five millions, but not one ounce of sugar more for their consumption.
After all, the PM has even urged Malaysians to use just one spoonful of sugar in their coffee, not two or three.
You could do much better, it was cheaper, to get tea bags, 100 for 99 cents, and one spoonful, one cupful of sugar, and so you drink a lot of iced tea.
Fans are Poles like Joanna Kosicka, a European Union official born in 1974 who reads "Marzi" to her 8-year-old son and recounts her own tales of waking at 4 a.m. to stand in line for one kilogram of sugar.
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The deal made Bunge one of the biggest sugar processors in the country.
Miss Maudie had once let me see it: among other things, the recipe called for one large cup of sugar.
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That is one explanation for why sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with obesity.
After a few more days of working the phones, my salvation came in the form of Kim Jochl, one of bosses at Sugar Mountain, in Banner Elk, N.
Breakfast cereal eaters can now choose between the regular versions of Kellogg 's (nyse: K - news - people ) Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, and one with one-third less sugar.
This need for adjunct sugar molecules is one reason why making protein-based drugs is not as simple as it looks.
Incidentally, it is also a popular region in which to visit one of Connecticut's sugar houses, producing Connecticut's famous maple syrup.
More research is being conducted on this subject, but what seems clear in any case is that a reduced level of BDNF is bad news for our brains, and chronic sugar consumption is one of the worst inhibitory culprits.
Senator Breaux is trying to slip in an amendment to a trade bill for Africa and the Caribbean Basin that would change the definition of the sugar syrup to one of ultimate use, rather than what it is imported.
Perversely, this actually worsens the cycle, because jaggery uses a little sugar-cane as one of its ingredients.
I've found that I need a small meal with as little processed sugar as possible about one to two hours before I work out.
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The company will spend the next year reassessing salt, fat and sugar content in every one of its products, says Gert W. Meijer, head of Unilever's health institute.
Sugar-glass could one day prove one of biotech's sweetest successes.
Within three seasons he could claim two national titles, but after an Orange Bowl loss in his sixth year (not to mention an upset national title game loss to Alabama in the 1993 Sugar Bowl) the one-time hottest coach in football was reduced to challenging a disgruntled Hurricanes fan to a fight after the previously mentioned loss.
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