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Americans Keep Getting Smarter About Sugar
- solvaholic 8y agoThe data behind Bloomberg's article are about how much sugar is produced and sold, rather than how much each American chooses to consume: > The agency does not actually monitor how much sugar we put in our bodies; it measures “estimated deliveries for domestic food and beverage use” and divides it by the population. Bloomberg's graph rises and falls with the volume of high-fructose corn syrup. When I compare it to a graph of ethanol production in the US [1] I wonder if the "estimated deliveries for domestic food and beverage use" are decreasing simply because ethanol works out better - for growers - than high fructose corn syrup. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_States#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_the_United_Sta...