I. Our Sweet Tooth 

 Growing Sweeter 

 And Why 



OUR grandfathers, in the early 

 '50s, got along well enough 

 with a family sugar consumption of 

 two pounds a week. 



Our fathers' families in the '80s 

 ate about five pounds a week. 



Twenty years later, in 1900, we 

 were eating more than six pounds 

 a week. 



Today every American family con- 

 sumes between eight and nine pounds 

 of sugar from Saturday till Satur- 

 day. 



Not the sugar in fruits, or the 

 sugars which we digest from the 

 potatoes or beans we eat, or other 

 natural sugars and sweets, but of 

 commercial, store-bought, refined 

 sugar we eat more than eight pounds. 



Eight pounds, plus, of sugar a 

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