Written By Jill Ettinger The average American eats. A lot. As a
new infographic points out, per year, food intake per person can
amount to some 200 pounds of meat, 85 pounds of fat, 415 pounds
of vegetables, 31 pounds of cheese, 53 gallons of soda and 42
pounds of high fructose corn syrup. By comparison, in 1950,
Americans ate roughly half of the meat eaten today, and what
they did eat was more like the high quality, organically fed,
free-range meat now available to those able to pay sometimes
three to four times more than the price for the rampant
conventionally raised and high-risk factory farm produced animal
proteins. Sixty years ago, Americans consumed virtually zero
pounds of high fructose corn syrup, but that number today --
more than 40 pounds per person (3,865 teaspoons per year or 11
teaspoons per day) -- correlates with the high rise in Type II
diabetes, obesity, heart disease and other diet-related
illnesses. While HFCS is found in a number of unsuspecting foods
from bread to condiments, it's also