1. Cut Down On Sugar Intake

2. Spreading Throughout the Old World
Sugar cane was first introduced in New Guinea around 8000 B.C. and spread into southern Asia and India
It was first crystallized in India around 500 A.D.
Sugar cane began to spread toward the west into the Mediterranean around 700 to 750 A.D.
Arabs were mostly responsible for spreading it into Egypt around 640 A.D., where it spread around the Mediterranean and eventually got to Spain.

3. Reaching the New World Portuguese took sugar cane to Brazil.
It spread throughout the new world and into the Caribbean.
Conquerors conquered island to plant and cultivate sugar cane crops.
While this was going on so was slavery…

4. Slavery Slavery actually had a lot to do with sugar.
Slaves were taken from Africa and brought to the New World to work on sugar cane crops.
It was a lot of work to care for the crops, harvest it, run the sugar mill, make it into sugar, and have to trade or sell it. So they used slaves.
Slaves were forced to work on the crops and work year-round.
Sugar brought over 900,000 African Americans to slavery.

5. Sugar Transformed
Indians were the first people to change sugar cane juices into brown sugar around 3000 years ago.
The Arabs invented caramel in 950 A.D.
The Indians were the first to actually invent candy around 250 A.D.
Rock handy, also called sugar cane, was invented in the 18th century and was used as a medicine, at first.
In the 14th century, Venetians imported sugar to make candy.

6. Desserts But sugar isn’t just in desserts it is also in:
Sugar is in many of the desserts we eat everyday. Such desserts are:
Ice-cream (my favorite)
Cakes
Pastries
Brownies
Cookies
Popsicles
Chocolate
But sugar isn’t just in desserts it is also in:
Soda
Coffee
Fruit Juices
Processed food

7. Consumption
The average American consumes up to 100 pounds of sugar a year.
Sugar is consumed by eating foods with sugar in it.
Sugar has calories

8. Obesity Obesity is : more than the average fatness.
one in every three Americans are obese.
Obesity can cause diseases such as:

9. Why should we care?
So what? What is The Big deal with People getting fat?
Well the big deal is that:

10. What can we do? Biggest Loser Natural sweeteners
We can show an example by cutting down on sugar oursleves
Excrsises

11. Resources…
(what is on wiki)