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The Uncontroversial Truth About Nutrition

Food, We Need To Talk

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The History of the American Diet

Americans increased caloric intake on average by 500 calories per day from 1980 to the end of the 20th century. While fat gram intake is slowly creeping up, grams of carbohydrate intake is going up faster. A big part of this was the old American icon, the SSB - sugar, sweetened beverages.

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