The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

How much sugar is recommended per day?

By now, American exceptionalism is a universally accepted truism. Like dogs over cats and

Star Wars over Star Trek, it's a simple fact that America is qualitatively different than other

nations. Some would say superior, but I think modesty is more becoming of a nation of our stature,

Providence, and history. Why else would extraterrestrials decide to land on the White House

lawn as they do in every culturally relevant piece of sci-fi if it weren't exceptional?

Why would American parents everywhere claim that their kids were special if they actually were not?

But perhaps the most conclusive evidence of our exceptionalism lies in how our nutritional labels relay information about sugar.

If you go to a place like Germany or the UK and flip over a package of Haribo Goldbarren,

Gummy bears, it'll tell you how many percentage points the sugar in the candy counts towards your daily limit.

Point being, everyone else has an upper limit for sugar consumption.

But in the U.S., we have no upper limit on sugar, and when it comes to added sugar,

it's a total free-for-all. It's not even listed. Researchers are still uncovering the mechanisms,

but it appears that Americans benefit from some epigenetic resistance to the negative effects

other nations experience from excessive sugar consumption.

My pet theory? The confluence of high fructose corn syrup subsidies, kids filling up super big gulp cups

with slurpees when the clerks weren't looking, and Wilford Brimley's diabetes commercials

have converged to create a morphogenic field of extreme

sugar tolerance. Whether it's a developing fetus or a South Asian migrant, the morphogenic field

envelops and affects everyone in the U.S. borders. In fact, there's no such thing as excessive

sugar consumption in the United States.

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