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Shawn Chhabra- explains Sugar Problem: We know that most people consume that 1/2 cup or so of sugar every day. This is an amount that has increased substantially over time. Consider that a human being in the year 1800 would eat around 18 pounds of sugar every year (sounds like a lot doesn't it?), but that same person in the year 2010 was eating around 180 pounds in that same space of time! And the sugars of 2010 are radically different from those of 1910, and not in good ways. Why on earth are we eating so much of this stuff? Because we want it. We want it because we have developed addictions to it (and for some of us this addiction began with our first bottle of baby formula). We want sugar because it is marketed to us by "big business". And because it is the massive commercial food industry that adds sugar to foods that we don't even know contain sugar. We are going to look at all of these issues, but for now, let's just consider how sugar gets into our bodies and our diets. Sugar in the Modern Diet