This is going to sound unbelievable, but I have never had candy in my life! My parents just never had sugar in the house -- not even sugar substitutes.
It was probably for the best, excess sugar consumption is a real big problem in our current culture!
Very true -- I know many physicians now think that *sugar* is more of a culprit in health issues than fat ever was. And it's *everywhere* -- not just chocolate, chewing gum, and candy candy. So much else.
They certainly find a way to add it in everything whether it is simple added sugar or high fructose corn syrup or whatever. I try to stay away from processed foods for that reason.
Public relations of high fructose corn syrup
Critics and competitors of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), notably the sugar industry, have for many years used various public relations campaigns to claim the sweetener causes certain health conditions, despite the lack of scientific evidence that HFCS differs nutritionally from sugar. The HFCS industry has tried to respond to these campaigns with their own efforts.
Labeling as "natural".
In May 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened to file a lawsuit against
. So Cubans have a sort of thick skin to most sexual stuff, which is not to say that my parents did, but as a general rule in the environment and the culture, there's a lot more possibility. I never had any sense of shame or anything like that.
On a personal level, Obejas says she always accepted her sexual identity as part of herself:
In terms of my own sexuality, I don't know what it was, but I just never blinked. I was always amazed