It’s no secret that average health is declining in the United States and around the World. While environmental pollutants, increased overall stress, genetically modified foods and “quick and easy” meals filled with chemicals you can’t pronounce hold some of the blame, they are not the only culprits. Enemy #1 in a lot of cases is an overload of sugar in just about everything we consume.
Bear in mind the statistics below are just the average. There are many people who cannot tolerate sugar in their diet and others who simply don’t prefer it. That means that while there are people who consume far less sugar than this(or none at all), there are others who are consuming far more….this is chilling considering the data.
Annual Sugar Consumption per Person:
- 18th Century: less than 5 pounds.
- 19th Century: less than 20 pounds.
- 20th Century: approximately 90 pounds.
- 21st Century: approximately 180 pounds!
According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average American adult receives roughly 13% of their daily calories from sugar. Children and adolescents are getting as much as 16% of their daily intake from nothing but sugar.
Based on increased consumption over the past 300 years, Stephen Guyenet, PhD, and author of the book The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat predicts the American diet will be based 100% on sugar by the 2606. We don’t have to worry but you can see the trend is upwards.
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