American Diet: Sugar, Please!

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Are the benefits of consuming sugar greater than its increasingly known effects–from it’s link to obesity, hypertension, high blood pressure, and so forth–especially given the ever-growing amount we consume in our American diet?  See the below graphical comparison depicting the average American’s sugar consumption from 1820 to present.  (Enjoy, but be careful; the news isn’t so sweet!)

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H/t: ZeroHedge

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