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Sugar is the new tobacco - and major industries are scrambling
2015-11-16 04:47:15| Beverages - Topix.net
On Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration announced that Americans should eat and drink no more than 50 grams of sugar - roughly the amount in a can and a half of Coke - each day. The new proposal has been years in the making: Chatter of the need for a cap on sugar has been circulating amongst consumers, law makers, and public health advocates since research in the early 2000s first linked our excessive consumption of the stuff with obesity, weight gain, and other health problems - especially in children.
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