SUgAr hIGh!!!

How much sugar do you think you down in a day? 7 teaspoons? 12 teaspoons? 15 teaspoons? How about 22.7 teaspoons? Yes, that is the amount of sugar the typical American consumes in a day according to the National Geographic magazine. To put that in perspective, the American Heart Association's recommended daily maximum for men, 9 teaspoons, and for women, 6 tsp. Let's just allow that to settle in. If you use 7.5 as the average of 9 and 6, the average American consumes 3 times the recommended limit. In fact, a single can of cola, which is 12 ounces, contains 7.93 teaspoons of sugar. What about those kids who drink about 3+ cans of Mountain Dew per day? Why are we even hooked on sugar? Well, as I continued in the magazine, I discovered that the entering of sugar into the blood causes the same brain centers to react as heroine and cocaine do. Yup. We're hooked on sugar. What's funny though, is that as I'm typing this post, at this very moment, I'm chewing on a Twizzler. What a coincidence.