Without sugar and oxygen, our food and breath, we would die in minutes. Sugar certainly makes many foods taste better. But too much of this particular good thing can wreak havoc.
In 1942, when annual production of fizzy soft drinks was about 60 12-ounce servings per person, the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Foods and Nutrition stated: "The Council believes it would be in the interest of the public health for all practical means to be taken to limit consumption of sugar in any form in which it fails to be combined with significant proportions of other foods of high nutritive quality."
Today, Americans consume on average ten times the 1942 level of soft drinks and the rest of the world is fast catching up.
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