The Nuance

This Is Your Gut on Sugar

Researchers are finally uncovering the exact ways that sugar disrupts the GI tract

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readAug 18, 2021
Photo: Sharon McCutcheon / Unsplash

In 1776, at the start of the Revolutionary War, the average person consumed about four pounds of sugar each year. Today, per capita sugar intake in the U.S. exceeds 120 pounds.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.