I am looking at a graph of the rise in sugar consumption from 1800 to 2008. It estimates we have gone from 10 pounds per year to 160 pounds per year. Average per day today of 50 teaspoons, 1/2 a pound. Average schoolboy eats 34 teaspoons. Source,
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Sound high? Look at the people walking down the streets with a "Big Gulp." from 711. Four hundred calories in one. All sugar from corn syrup. There are 16 calories per teaspoon of sugar. That means you are drinking the equivalent of 25 teaspoons of sugar.