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“The annual sugar intake of the average Englishman rose from near zero in the early seventeenth century to around eight kilograms in the early…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“On average, we consume 71 pounds of caloric sweeteners each year. That’s 22 teaspoons of sugar, per person, per day.”

— Michael Moss

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.

— John Mackey

“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year,” as the University…

— Gary Taubes

“Annual per capita sugar consumption in the depth of the Great Depression was sixteen pounds higher than it had been in 1920.”

— Gary Taubes

“By the 1920s, sugar refineries were producing as much sugar in a single day—millions of pounds—as would have taken refineries in the 1820s an…

— Gary Taubes

“Noting that people were getting on average 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day, the association urged Americans to cut back. Moderately active women…

— Michael Moss

“Looking at the numbers above and doing some quick conversions we realize that during any given day, the amount of sugar in your blood…

— Brad Pilon

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

— Frederick Banting

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others:…

— Michael Pollan

“In the U.S. there are 45,000 shopping malls employing 10.7 million people. The average American family of four metabolizes four million pounds of material…

— Stephanie Kaza

“In the year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion.1 The total value of…

— Yuval Noah Harari