Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. Every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales.
Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us.
FOOD, FACTS and FADS 