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Imagine this, it is the 1800’s and you’re shopping for sugar. You see the sweet, pure white sugar and look down. Wham! The price makes your stomach drop. You need a cup of sugar, and the price is five dollars per teaspoon. That’s two-hundred and forty dollars, and you only have two dollars with you! In the articles, How Candy Conquered America by Lauren Tarshis and This Cupcake is Trying to Hurt You by Kristin Lewis and Lauren Tarshis it talks about how the consumption of sugar changes over time from the 1800’s to today. Two ways sugar consumption in the United States differed in the 1800’s than today is how much sugar we eat and how it affects our bodies. One thing contrasted in the articles, This Cupcake is Trying to Hurt You and How Candy Conquered America is the amount of sugary foods and sugar we consume. In This Cupcake Is Trying to Hurt You, the authors state that, “In 1801, the average American was eating roughly 8 pounds of sugar a year. Today, the average American eats about 130 pounds a year, according to some estimates.” This means we are eating one-hundred and twenty pounds more than in 1801. To put that into more context, an adult woman is only supposed to eat six teaspoons of sugar a day. That According to the article, Too Much Can Make Us Sick (http://www.sugarscience.org/too-much-can-make-us-sick/), “Heart disease. Diabetes. These chronic conditions are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Increasingly, scientists are focusing on a common set of underlying metabolic issues that raise people's risk for chronic disease. It turns out that the long-term overconsumption of added sugars is linked to many of these dysfunctions.” This means that people living today, have a lot more trouble with diseases because of our unhealthy sugar intake compared to the

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