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SUGAR FACTS • Researchers note that sugar is not necessarily a health problem, but the amount of sugar we consume is. Americans consume about 160 lbs (72 kg) of various sweeteners annually. That’s around 50 teaspoons of sugar per day, including sugar from sugar cane, sugar beets, and high fructose corn syrup, with a little bit of honey and maple syrup on the side. It’s recommended by the American Heart Association that adults do not take in more than 5 to 9 teaspoons of sugar per day.

• Sugar provides what are called ‘empty calories’ because it has no vitamins, no minerals, no enzymes, no fat, and no fiber. It’s a source of instant energy, which is not necessarily a healthy thing.

• About two thirds of the sugar consumed in a typical American diet comes from processed foods. One half a cup of prepackaged spaghetti sauce can contain as much sugar as two Oreo cookies (and also has one third of the daily recommended amount of salt.) Heinz ketchup contains up to one teaspoon of sugar in each one tablespoon serving.

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SUGAR (continued) • Sugar cane is a member of the grass family and there are six different species, all of which look very similar to bamboo. None of the species can tolerate freezing temperatures. Sugar cane is usually grown in large plantations. It can yield up to 44 pounds (20 kg) of sugar for every 11 square feet (1 square m) of land.

• It takes between 12 and 18 months for a cane stalk to mature to the point where it can be harvested. It is a perennial plant meaning it can regrow from the roots over and over, but each time it yields less sugary sap than before until it becomes more economical to plant a fresh new crop. The stalk of the plant is boiled and refined into molasses and sugar. The sugar cane must be refined within days of being harvested.

• It takes one ton of water to grow enough cane to yield one pound (.45 kg) of sugar.

• Sugar cane was first domesticated in New Guinea and areas of Indonesia, and people in India were the first to refine it. One of the first recorded references to sugar dates back to the year 325 BC. •Christopher Columbus brought sugar cane with him on his second voyage to the New World in 1493 and planted it in Santo Domingo. By the year 1516, sugar was being shipped to Europe from there.

• The first sugar cane in the United States was planted in Louisiana in the mid-1700s.

• At first, sugar was rare and expensive. Slavery on sugar plantations caused social upheaval. Jungles were torn down to make room for more sugar cane.

• As sugar became more widely available, the price dropped so that more people could afford it.

TWO KINDS OF SUGAR • Sugar is a combination of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Mankind is unable to produce sugar using chemical processes. Only plants can manufacture sugar. Our table sugar comes from two different plants: sugar cane, and sugar beets. They are chemically identical.

• It used to be thought that sugar could only be made from sugar cane. One scientist named Achard was viewed as a crackpot because he kept trying to get sugar from beets, which were easy to grow in cold climates. In 1806 Napoleon ordered all French ports closed to English products because a war had broken out between the two countries. This cut off the supply of sugar, which England got from its Caribbean colonies. When Napoleon heard of a man that could turn beets into sugar, he visited him and was so impressed that he took the Legion of Honor medal from his own chest and pinned it on him. Two years later there were 40 sugar beet factories in France. When the war ended, the price of sugar bottomed out and the beet factories closed. Today, two-thirds of the world’s sugar comes from sugar cane, and onethird from beets.

IT’S A FACT • Sugar was rationed in World War II because it was needed to make the ethyl alcohol which is a component of smokeless gunpowder. It took an entire acre of sugar cane to make enough gunpowder for five shots from a 16-inch gun.

PRESENT FROM BIRTH • Children develop a taste for salty things by the time they are four or five years old, but the appreciation of sweet things is present from the moment of birth. In an experiment, babies had one of their hands placed in a bowl of uncomfortably cold water. Researchers found that babies would leave their hand in that cold water longer if they were distracted by being given something sweet.

CORN SYRUP • In the 1970s sugar’s rising price led to the development of high fructose corn syrup which then became the sweetener of choice used in soft drinks and processed foods. Over the next three decades, consumption of soda pop more than doubled in the U.S., eventually reaching over 50 gallons (189 l) a year per person. Between 1970 and 1990 consumption of high fructose corn syrup in the U.S. increased tenfold. By 1999 every person in America was averaging 215 calories per day from high fructose corn syrup alone.

IT’S A FACT • In a study, rats were taught that they would receive an electrical shock if they ate cheesecake. They ate cheesecake anyway and suffered the electrical shocks rather than go without cheesecake.

CONSEQUENCES • Medical studies have shown that high intake of sugar has a negative effect on the survival rates of people suffering from colon cancer and breast cancer. • Regular consumption of refined sugar can cause deficiencies of the B vitamins. • Sugar accelerates the aging of cells in the human body and also increases the amount of skin wrinkles because excess blood sugar binds to collagen in the skin and makes it less elastic. • Drinking a single 12-ounce can of soda pop daily adds enough sugar to the diet to boost the chance of getting heart disease by a third. • Americans consume the most sugar through soft drinks (33%), followed by candy (16%); cakes, cookies, and pies (13%); fruit drinks (10%); dairy desserts and milk (9%); and other things (6%). In the American diet, added sugar accounts for nearly 500 calories every day. This is calorically equivalent to eating 10 strips of bacon every day.

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Jimmy Pachelli - Retired Marine This week Tidbits had the opportunity to interview Jimmy Pachelli, a retired marine.

Tidbits: How did it come about that you went into the military?

Jimmy: I always wanted to serve my country.

I wanted to serve with the best, so I chose the marines.

Tidbits: Did you ever serve duty in another country? If so, where and for how long?

Jimmy: 1983 I served in Beirut, Lebanon and in Grenada and from 1985-86 I served in Panama.

Tidbits: For how many years did you serve?

Jimmy: 7 Years Tidbits: What rank were you while in the service?

Jimmy: E6 - Staff Sergeant Tidbits: What is your fondest memory while serving duty?

Jimmy: My fondest memory is going to see and taking care of my fellow marines in the hospital.

Tidbits: What was the most difficult aspect of participating in the military?

Jimmy: The most difficult aspect was losing my fellow brothers in arms.

Tidbits: What is your opinion regarding war as a means to resolve conflict?

Jimmy: War is necessary to maintain peace and freedom, but not to the extent where lives are lost unnecessarily.

Tidbits: Do you consider your duty as having been a positive or negative life experience?

Why? Jimmy: I consider my duty as having been a positive life experience. My enlistment in the U.S. Marine Core has made me the man I am today and given me the strength and courage to overcome some of the most difficult times in my life.

Thank you for your service Jimmy!

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PET OF THE WEEK! Binx is our cat of the week at Second Chance Sheridan Cat Rescue! Binx was rescued after his family left him behind. Binx is very sweet and loves to be held and carried around. He will follow you around talking to you until you pick him up and give him a kiss! For more information about Binx or any other adoptable cat, please call 307-461-9555 or visit http://sheridancatrescue.org

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By Sam Mazzotta Cat Tears Up Furniture --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: We adopted a friend’s cat sight unseen. “Tara” is a beautiful young tiger-striped cat, but she claws at every furniture leg in the house. My sofa, for example, is pretty much ruined. How can I get this behavior to stop? -- Patricia, via email

A NEW SNACK CAKE • In 1932 Charles Lubin and his brother-in-law purchased a chain of bakeries in Chicago called the Community Bake Shops. The business was successful, but in 1949 Charles and his brotherin-law parted ways and Charles took over the business.

• Charles believed that because the business had been so successful in supplying baked goods to the grocery stores of Chicago, he should try supplying baked goods to the mass market of America, so he began to experiment with ways to do that.

• He invented a method that allowed desserts to be baked, frozen, shipped, and reheated in a foil pan. His first mass-market product was a frozen cheesecake, which needed a name.

• His wife Tillie suggested he name it after their daughter, and he did. The cheesecake became so popular that he renamed the entire corporation after his daughter. He added more products such as pound cake and coffee cake, and by 1955 his products were sold all over the country.

• The business was so profitable that Charles sold out to Consolidated Foods in 1956. By then the name of his daughter was so widely recognized that Consolidated Foods adopted it as the new name of their corporation, hiring him to be their CEO. • Charles retired in 1965 and died in 1988 at the age of 84, by which time the company’s products were well on their way to being sold around the world. Shortly after his death, his daughter became a spokesperson for the corporation that was named after her. And her own daughter (Charles’ grandaughter) even interned at the factory. What was the name of Charles’ daughter, now on packages of frozen desserts all over the world?

Answer: Sarah Lee. (continued on last page).

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DEAR PATRICIA: Almost all cats claw at handy chair legs, and often prefer the corners of sofas -- the more expensive, the better, it seems. However, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice your furniture for a friend’s cat.

There are a few things you can do to minimize the scratching. I can’t guarantee that it will go away, but you should be able to save future sofas from the same fate.

First, protect your furniture legs (specifically the furniture that Tara is targeting the most) by wrapping thick cloth or even multiple layers of newspaper around them, and taping in place with masking tape.

(Duct tape could leave behind residue.) To discourage Tara from clawing at the protective layer, cover it with plastic wrap or tape -- when she sinks her claws into the tape, the uncomfortable sensation will stop the clawing.

Next, give Tara some things that she CAN claw, and that she can spend her time with: multiple scratching posts and toys.

Third, spent more time with Tara, playing, petting or just being in the same room. Help her work off extra energy and assure her that despite the change in homes, she has nothing to worry about -- and much of the anxiety that may be behind her obsessive clawing may ease.

If these steps don’t reduce the amount of furniture clawing going on, talk to Tara’s vet about medication that could ease her anxiety.

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WASPS • In the 1980s, a caterpillar epidemic began devastating the cotton crop in the southern United States.

Farmers turned to entomologists for help. These bug scientists knew that every female wasp lays an egg on the back of a caterpillar. When the egg hatches, the wasp maggots will eat the caterpillar from the inside out, killing it. So the entomologists began breeding and releasing wasps into the cotton fields. It didn’t do a bit of good. More entomologists were called in to find out why.

• First they studied how a wasp finds a caterpillar to begin with. They discovered it was not by sight.

When a wasp and a caterpillar were placed in the same box, the wasp paid no attention to the caterpillar. They thought it might be by smell but once again, when a wasp was close to a caterpillar, there was no recognition at all. Next they tried putting a caterpillar on a plant and releasing the wasp, with no change. But when they put a wasp in a box that contained a partially eaten plant that had been munched by the caterpillar, the wasp showed particular interest in the plant, and then zeroed in on the caterpillar.

• Researchers concluded that the damaged plant was giving off an odor that attracted the wasp. Given the choice, the wasp would always be more attracted to a half-eaten plant without a caterpillar on it than to an undamaged plant that had a caterpillar on it.

• The entomologists began breeding wasps that were being hatched inside caterpillars that had been fed corn, beans, and soy. When these wasps were released into the cotton fields, they completely failed to find the caterpillars that were raiding the cotton crop. So it was back to the drawing board for the entomologists.

• Researchers discovered that wasp maggots, when feeding on a caterpillar, will become sensitized to whatever that caterpillar had been eating. The wasp will then become attracted to those specific plants. Scientists found that if they wanted the wasps to zero in on caterpillars that were eating the cotton plants, they needed to raise wasp maggots on caterpillars that had eaten cotton plants. The adult wasp will then be highly sensitive to the odor of a damaged cotton plant. The wasp will ignore damaged tobacco plants and the tobacco budworms, and will likewise ignore damaged corn plants and the corn earworm.

• Further studies showed that the chemical odor that attracts a wasp to a damaged plant is the same odor that gives freshly cut grass its characteristic smell. Wasps are able to tell the difference between freshly cut Bermuda grass and freshly cut Kentucky bluegrass. Knowing this, the researchers were able to save the cotton crop.

• Whereas a bee can sting only once before dying, a wasp can sting an unlimited number of times and never dies.

• Bees are strictly herbivores, eating only nectar and pollen, but wasps eat other insects. Wasps may also eat nectar but they do not collect it like bees do.

• Bees create their hives from wax they secrete themselves but wasps create their nests from wood pulp that they scrape from trees and chew up.

• A typical wasp colony will have about 5,000 individuals, all of which die off over the winter except for a fertilized larval queen. She survives in a warm spot until she can hatch in the spring and begin laying eggs to start a new colony.

• Nearly every pest insect on Earth is preyed upon by a wasp species, either for food or as a host for its parasitic larvae.

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A NEW TREAT • Continental Bakeries made a variety of items under the Hostess brand in the 1920s and 1930s. One of them was a strawberry shortcake, composed of a single-serving oblong sponge cake injected with strawberry cream filling. The problem was that strawberries were a seasonal item, available only a few months of the year. The rest of the year, the equipment used to make the cakes sat idle.

• While delivering a load of strawberry cakes to a vendor one day, company vicepresident James Deware decided what he needed was a product that would use this equipment all year. Finally he hit on banana cream cakes because bananas were available year-round.

• He called them Little Shortcake Fingers, and a nickel bought a package of two.

A few years later on the way to a marketing meeting, his eye fell on a billboard advertising a brand of shoes, and he adapted that name for the product.

• Originally the cakes were made with eggs, milk, and butter, which gave them a shelf life of only a day or two before becoming stale. It was expensive to have salesmen constantly replenishing store shelves, so the recipe was reformulated, giving them a shelf life of three to four weeks, mostly due to the airtight cellophane packaging.

• During World War II a banana shortage forced him to re-vamp the recipe once again, and the familiar vanilla-flavored snack cake was born. Today, 500 million are produced every year. They are called Twinkies.

• Twinkies can be frozen to expand their lifespan.

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