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Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

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

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.