date:May 17, 2016
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) the average American consumes between 150-170 pounds of refined sugars per year!
Most people know that sugar is not a health food, yet many downplay the impact that refined sugars could have on health. A recent study reports that sugar may indeed be a much bigger threat and in fact causes metabolic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease and weight gain.
Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist in San Francisco a