I was shocked at this website's stats. There are regions in this country where the average consumption of soda is more than 81 gallons per year. Some might say that's only 14 oz/day of soda, but averages include babies and kids and people who never touch the stuff. I suppose this is to be expected since the average person in the US consumes between 150-170 lbs of sugars (simple sugars like sucrose, fructose, glucose, etc) every year (according to the USDA). If we are ever to truly decrease our diabetes and obesity in this country, we need to deal with this stat. People in the late 1800's ate 5 lbs of sugar per year. Yikes, huh? http://amplify.com/u/21jf
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