On average, Americans eat about 17 teaspoons of added sugars every day. That adds up to a whopping 57 pounds a year. But for years you weren’t warned of the harmful impact it has on your health.
On average, Americans eat about 17 teaspoons of added sugars every day. That adds up to a whopping 57 pounds a year. But for years you weren’t warned of the harmful impact it has on your health.
In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?