Is there anything wrong with not eating sugar? From morning tea to sweets. Sugar adds sweetness not only to our food, but also to our lives. Without this sugar, we would not be able to eat foods like sweets, chocolate, cakes or soft drinks. But where did this sugar come from and how did it reach our kitchen? Sugar and then brown sugar were first made in India from sugarcane juice. Historical books and various reports from India and abroad provide evidence of this. According to a research report titled ‘A History of Sugar: The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves’ published by the British media outlet network ‘The Conversation’, sugar was made in India around 2,500 years ago, i.e. 500 BC. From here, the technology to make it spread eastwards to China and reached the Middle East via Iran. In the first century, the historian Pliny the Elder, who wrote the encyclopedia ‘Naturalis Historia’, said that Indian sugar was better than sugar made in Arabia. It is said that sugar first reac...
Can measles be prevented by vaccination? Measles has existed in society for hundreds of years. The physician Abu Walker wrote about this disease for the first time in the tenth century. But the virus that causes this disease originated in the world 2600 years ago. Centuries ago, even doctors had trouble telling the difference between measles and smallpox. It was only in the seventeenth century that the British government listed these two diseases separately. Measles is a highly contagious disease. One infected person can infect up to 18 people. Before the introduction of the measles vaccine, the disease was widespread around the world, and countless children died because of it. It is estimated that more than 2 million people worldwide died from measles before measles vaccines were available. If a person who has not been vaccinated against measles gets infected with measles, 10 to 30 percent of those infected may die due to complications. In 1874, a third of the infected died in a ...