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    How Our Sweet Tooth Is Hurting Us

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    The average person in the USA now consumes approximately 40 kg or 22 teaspoons of sugar per day, far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended limit of no more than 8 teaspoons per day. Teenagers are the biggest consumers of sugary drinks, which advertise as being energy-giving but actually leave people feeling hungry after consumption. Cereal is a food product that contains a surprising amount of sugar despite being viewed as healthy. Nutritionists believe food labels should be easier for consumers to understand the sugars contained. Too much sugar intake can negatively impact children's ability to sleep and concentrate in school as well as lead to obesity, heart, liver and diabetes problems for adults.

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    The average person in the USA now consumes approximately 40 kg or 22 teaspoons of sugar per day, far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended limit of no more than 8 teaspoons per day. Teenagers are the biggest consumers of sugary drinks, which advertise as being energy-giving but actually leave people feeling hungry after consumption. Cereal is a food product that contains a surprising amount of sugar despite being viewed as healthy. Nutritionists believe food labels should be easier for consumers to understand the sugars contained. Too much sugar intake can negatively impact children's ability to sleep and concentrate in school as well as lead to obesity, heart, liver and diabetes problems for adults.

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    The average person in the USA now consumes approximately 40 kg or 22 teaspoons of sugar per day, far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended limit of no more than 8 teaspoons per day. Teenagers are the biggest consumers of sugary drinks, which advertise as being energy-giving but actually leave people feeling hungry after consumption. Cereal is a food product that contains a surprising amount of sugar despite being viewed as healthy. Nutritionists believe food labels should be easier for consumers to understand the sugars contained. Too much sugar intake can negatively impact children's ability to sleep and concentrate in school as well as lead to obesity, heart, liver and diabetes problems for adults.

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    How our sweet tooth is hurting us

    Over the last three centuries, the amount of sugar in the Western diet has continued to rise. Back
    at the start of the 18th century, a typical English family consumed less than 2 kg of sugar per
    year. By the end of that century, that amount had risen 400%. Compare that to the 40 kg that
    people now consume annually in the USA. In Germany, the second-most sugar-loving nation in
    the world, people eat roughly 103 grams on average per day. In the Netherlands, the country with
    the third-biggest sweet tooth, people eat 102.5 grams. Of course, there are some countries in the
    world where sweet food is less popular: in India, people eat only about 5 grams per day on
    average; in Indonesia, it’s 14.5 grams; and in China, it’s just under 16 grams. If you’re not sure
    what 40 kg looks like, it means that the average person in the USA now eats approximately 22
    teaspoons of sugar a day. The recommended limit, suggested by researchers from the World
    Health Organisation, is no more than 8 if you want to stay healthy, but just one can of soda
    contains around 10.

    It is common knowledge that many drinks, in bottles or canned, contain a lot of sugar. Although
    advertisements say that they are ‘energy-giving’, professional athletes and sportsmen and women
    usually stay away from them. It is teenagers that are their greatest consumers. And – although
    advertisers promise that these drinks will make people feel energetic and active – because of the
    type of chemicals they have, once a person has drunk all the soda, they simply feel hungry
    instead. However, sugar is also in products that many shoppers find surprising, for example,
    cereal, which actually has a lot. Because they believe it is a healthy kind of food, parents buy it
    for their children’s breakfast.

    A large part of the problem, according to nutritionists, is that people find it hard to understand
    the labels on the back of food products. Nutritionists think this should be a lot easier for them.
    But at the moment, manufacturers don’t have to write ‘sugar’ on them, but can use words like
    ‘corn syrup’ or ‘dextran’, which can result in confusion for consumers. But why should we be
    worried about our sugar consumption? Firstly, it is harmful to young children because it causes
    tooth decay; the pain from this can mean that children don’t get the amount of sleep they need.
    As a result, they can’t concentrate when they are in class. In this case, schools and governments
    have a duty to educate them about good and bad food choices. For adults, the problems increase.
    Eating too much sugar makes people quickly gain weight, it affects the heart and liver, and can
    lead to diabetes.

    Answer the questions. Choose ONE WORD OR A NUMBER from the passage
    for each answer.

    1. Which country consumes the least sugar per person?


    2. What is the maximum recommended number of teaspoons of sugar that a person should
    consume a day?
    3. Which group of people drink more sugary drinks than anyone else?
    4. How do people really feel after finishing sugary drinks?
    5. Which food product has an unexpected amount of sugar?
    6. What do nutritionists want to be clearer for consumers?
    7. What may decrease as a result of tooth decay in children?

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