To most everyone’s dismay, eating refined white sugar can negatively impact us. Its effect on our bodies has been the subject of hundreds of studies, all of them painting a bleak picture of what happens to people who regularly consume sugar (read: almost all of us). Refined white sugar’s been linked to obesity, heart disease, hypertension and cancer, and some scientists and dietitians have gone so far as to call it poisonous.

In an effort to avoid white sugar, many of us reach for the brown variety. Brown usually equals healthier: less refined, less processed, right? It holds true for rice and bread, so why not sugar?

Surprise! Brown sugar is (more)