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The Pattern We Should Have Seen Coming
Our ancestors consumed somewhere between 30 teaspoons and 6 pounds of sugar annually, depending on their environment. Today, Americans average 22-32 teaspoons daily—roughly 100 pounds per year. This isn’t a failure of willpower. It’s the predictable result of engineering foods that trigger evolutionary reward systems more intensely than anything in nature ever could.
The food industry discovered how to short-circuit the biological mechanisms that kept us alive for millennia. Our brains evolved to crave sweetness because calories were scarce and…
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