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How much bad stuff, how little good stuff. at one point i met with a group of kids and showed them something pretty surprising. how much sugar do you think you eat in a week? typical person in a week? say its that much sugar in a week? okay. how about this much? that much sugar in a week. >> oh, my gosh. oh! >> oh, my gosh! >> how many people think its this much sugar in a week? it is. that much sugar in one week. just think about that for a second. the average american teenager eats about four ...

Second. the average american teenager eats about four pounds of sugar a week. 200 pounds a year. theres a backlash and right in the middle of this is dr. robert lustic, a specialist in childhood obesity at the university of california san francisco. last summer he posted a lecture on youtube where he basically said sugar is poison. not just empty calories, buttocksic. more than a million have watched this video and theres a real deese debate, is sugar the thing we eat almost since the moment wer...