How Much Sugar is Too Much is What Americans Should Be Asking Are American’s walking around on a sugar high from their sugary food and drinks? This is the debated question posed to Americans today on whether there should be a large sugar tax placed on sugar consumption in the United States. There is no doubt that high doses and high consumption of these sugary drinks are damaging to the health and something at a national level can be done to possibly deter or lessen the consumption of these sugary foods and drinks would benefit Americans and their health long term (Will a sugar tax actually work). A universal tax on sugar would have the largest positive result since so many processed foods have so much sugar, and eating the fat and salts in those sugary foods would be reduced overall when Americans are faced with a fairly substantial sugar tax.
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We allowing food manufacturers to control what they put into our foods and we, the consumers, have no say yet are the ones who suffer the most with our health and well-being. Companies need to have rules and guidelines to adhere to and be forced to produce quality products to put on the shelves. As one economist said “In a nutshell, don’t tax the soda — tax the sugar it contains
We allowing food manufacturers to control what they put into our foods and we, the consumers, have no say yet are the ones who suffer the most with our health and well-being. Companies need to have rules and guidelines to adhere to and be forced to produce quality products to put on the shelves. As one economist said “In a nutshell, don’t tax the soda — tax the sugar it contains