US Health study

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Researchers who have analyzed Americas eating habits say they can sum up whats wrong with our diet in just two words: ultra-processed foods.These foods-a group that includes frozen pizzas, breakfast cereals and soda-make up 58 percent of all calories Americans consume in a typical day. Not only that, they delivered 90 percent of the added sugars that Americans ate and drank, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ Open.Government health experts advise Americans to get no more than 10 percent of their total calories in the form of added sugars. But most us arent listening. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that 71 percent of American adults exceeded that 10 percent goal, and that added sugars accounted for 15 percent of all the calories they consumed.



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