Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
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People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.
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.
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.
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.
Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.
Some people handle sweets better.
Sugar is the new tobacco.
Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
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