43 teaspoons of sugar a day?

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From a WSJ interview with Mackey, CEO of WholeFoods:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574447114058870676.html?mod=djemEditorialPage"A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution. How much sugar do you think Americans consume?" he asks. I shrug and he rattles off the statistics: "Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar."______Wow, I didn't realize it was that much. That's scary.Who is eating all that sugar? I mean, I guess thataccounts for the obesity problem, not to mentionso many others. But 43 a day? Yikes!Mara