Is Sugar making us sick? excerpt: The SugarScience group has already reviewed more than 8,000 papers and found evidence to support Lustigs previous assertions, linking excess sugar consumption to such chronic diseases as Type 2 diabetes and liver and heart disease. Laura Schmidt, the initiatives lead researcher, told the Chicago Tribune in December that the point of the project is to make these findings accessible to the public through its website and social media. The average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons of added sugar a day, significantly higher than what the American Heart Association recommends (6 teaspoons for women, 9 teaspoons for men, and 3 to 6 teaspoons for kids, according to UCSF). Schmidt notes that added sugars show up in 74% of all packaged foods and appear under at least 60 different names, making them hard to find on food labels.
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