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One reason for the recent rise in children becoming ill may be the lower sugar content of the slushies, which is attractive to parents.

Meat, dairy and sugar grown in a lab could be on sale in the UK for human consumption for the first time within two years from now, sooner than expected.

Rarer side effects include acute gallstone disease and pancreatitis, and the NHS warns that there is also a risk of hypoglycaemia, which happens when your blood sugar level drops too low.

"For example, I used to buy sugar for five shekels, three shekels, or four shekels, but now I buy sugar for six shekels, meaning I don't make more than a small profit," he said.

About a half-century on, the Dutch West India Company was running big sugar operations in northeast Brazil, and naturally began thinking that a California “New Netherlands” sounded pretty good.