For a 2,000-calorie diet, 5% would be 25 grams. Limit daily sugar to 6 tsps (25 g) for women, 9 tsps (38 g) for men. Yet, the average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons (82 grams) every day.
exists and is an alternate of. Merge this question into. Split and merge into it. Answer by Paul Jones. Confidence votes 68.3K. Rockhound. Cementation is part of the process of lithification of sediments, or particles of rock, that form sedimentary rock. Cementation takes place as water is squeezed out by pressures on the sediments exerted by the weight of overlying sediments.
With cementation, we have minerals that grow and bind sediment together. The act of cementation is really what forms our sedimentary rocks. Compaction certainly helps the process along by bringing the individuals grains close together, but even after compaction there are spaces remaining between the grains.