Americans consume the most amount of sugar of anyone in the world — and they may not even know it.
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00:00This is our week, the average American, 3 pounds of sugar, added sugars, that's crazy,
00:12and for the month, I don't want to look, ugh, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA,
00:27nothing good.
00:57I don't want to look, ugh, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA,
01:27Food manufacturers put it in everything, and I do mean everything.
01:37About 35% of the sugars that Americans consume come from beverages, but we're also talking
01:42about salad dressings and ketchup and, you know, breads and cereals and crackers, and
01:47the list goes on and on, even to beef and turkey jerky.
01:50For 150 pounds of sugar a year we're consuming, we should be consuming only 20.