Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 pounds of the sweet stuff every year, up from 18 pounds in 1800.

It's sugar. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has strong thoughts on the subject. "There's things that will never be able to eliminate like sugar," said Kennedy.

“Replacing free sugars with non-sugar sweeteners does not help people control their weight long-term,” Dr. Francesco Branca, director of WHO’s department of nutrition and food ...

This could lead to the discovery of new regulators of the receptor that would significantly alter our attraction to and appetite for sugar. Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level.