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Re:The average American eats 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily by bitpow on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:22PM (#21495522)
> Come the 1980s, Americans were buying low-fat everything – the war against carbs had been won.

This doesn't make sense as fat is typically low in carbs. I think they mean the war for carbs had been won.

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Re:The average American eats 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily by newnewpdro on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:34PM (#21496043)
You're right, but I think they just meant to say 'the war against fat had been won'.

TFA is rife with errors, it's annoying because excess sugar consumption is a real issue but poorly researched and written articles like these are not helping.

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