![]() ![]() "The long-term effects will be staggering."Īnd, no, we're not just talking cavities. "Sugar consumption is now an epidemic," says Mark Hyman, M.D., author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet. That means the average woman eats 70 pounds-nearly half her weight-of straight sugar every year.īoth the American Heart Association and the World Health Organization recently released guidelines urging most women to stay under six teaspoons (i.e., six sugar cubes) of added sugar per day. The typical American now swallows the equivalent of 22 sugar cubes every 24 hours. "Sugar can act like poison in high doses-and the amount in our diets has gone beyond toxic," says Robert Lustig, M.D., a neuroendocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. Or scarf down non-nutritious junk at happy hour. You'd never willingly eat poison, right? Okay, maybe you snack on not-so-healthy treats every so often. ![]()
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