The American Heart Association would set guidelines for how much daily sugar consumption was healthy (six teaspoons for women; nine for men). Still, the food and drink industries urged Americans on to ever-greater consumption of sugar, made cheap by government subsidies. Within a decade, one Frappuccino would come larded with more than double the daily sugar intake recommended by those AHA guidelines. Processed food, designed in laboratories, massed ever-greater amounts of sugar, sometimes bundling it unnaturally with fat (sugar and fat are not found together in nature). Companies sold it in
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