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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.

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.

Some people handle sweets better.

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

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

I honestly think there shouldn't be sugared drinks. All my grandchildren drink water all through the day. I've just had them to stay, and at breakfast, they have water. They don't even know what sugary drinks are.

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

If people try to cut sugar out completely, they often splurge later. That isn't a good idea.

Cut a balance: eat well and then have your sugar fix. Everything in moderation.