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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 it's 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 it's 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 pounds of sugar a week. 200 pounds a year. there's a backlash and right in the middle of this is d...

Second. the average american teenager eats about four pounds of sugar a week. 200 pounds a year. there's 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 there's a real deese debate, is sugar the thing we eat almost since the moment we're born, is it really that bad? thanks for joining us. you've talked about sugar in this academic ...