Who cares about obesity, heart disease and diabetes? Health-care providers, guardians of the public’s health, insurance companies that cover the costs of disease, among others but, not, unfortunately, the organizations that ought to be in the forefront of the campaign for better health practices, advocating for the people who would benefit from efforts to restrict the consumption of sugar.
They tore down New Brunswick’s Memorial Homes. The community survived.
As crowds cheered when the four Memorial Homes buildings collapsed into dust on Aug. 18, 2001, Linda Fogle Davis remembers crying. "They were laughing. I was crying," Davis said. "I was hurt. That was my home being demolished." Twenty-five years later, former...