Today’s average American consumer ingests 2 to 3 pounds of sugar a week! We say “ingest” because in many of the cases, we’re not even aware we’re “eating” sugar. This is a dramatic increase even in the last two decades. In the 1980s, we, as a nation consumed some 26 pounds to 135 pounds per person in a year! Now compare this to the late nineteenth century ? specifically the years from 1887 to 1890 ? when the average American ate only five pounds of sugar in an entire year! It comes as no surprise then that cancer and heart disease were virtually unknown back then!
