SC - American sugar consumption

[Christine Seelye-King]

> Well, I was thinking more in terms of that half-pound of pepper compared
> to, say, the 60-odd pounds of sugar americans eat yearly!
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> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa,

	The figures I use in my class are more like 125 pounds per person per year,
and 16 pounds of artificial sweeteners per person per year.  I'm not sure
where the folks that wrote the text got those exact figures, but in doing
research on sugars, I have run across similar stats.
Christianna