And television, with its steady diet of sweets and treats, will have played a role in making us so.
"In Betty's culture," she explained to her friends, "children are dealt with by means of a nonstop diet of sweets and television.
A simple meat diet, no sweets, fried food or even vegetables, a brisk leap out of bed in the mornings and not exhausting oneself "continually among women".
I believe in a balanced diet, and sweets have a place in it; a little bit of chocolate can do a world of good.
The plot involves a young boy and his alien blob friend on a quest to save the latter's home planet of Blobolonia, which has been taken over by an evil emperor who only allows his subjects a diet of sweets.
Dr. Johnson also noted that candy provides only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet, while sweet drinks and juice supply 46 percent.
One question I'd like to see answered is how long anyone can stay on such a scheme and what happens when you start adding back some of the wholesome foods limited or forbidden on this diet, like sweet corn, grapes, watermelons, potatoes, carrots, beets or oatmeal.
He contended that his colleagues are "incredulous" at how Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has exaggerated the possible side effects of antiretroviral drugs and wrongly suggested that a diet of sweet potatoes and garlic can be as important as antiretrovirals in treating AIDS.
That afternoon, the shinkansen sped us onwards to Kagoshima, and we checked in at the recently built Remm hotel – complete with in-room massage chair – and ate at a shabu shabu restaurant, sampling some of the melt-in-the-mouth-tender local black pork from pigs fed on a diet of sweet potatoes.
This insect is an experimentally tractable pest insect that can easily be reared on a natural diet of sweet potato root as well as on an agar-based artificial diet.
