In draft guidelines proposed this week, WHO is encouraging people to consume less than 5% of their total daily calories from sugars. The organization's current guidelines, published in 2002, recommend eating less than 10% of your total daily calories from sugars. Most Americans still consume much more. Our sweet tooth increased 39% between 1950 and 2000, according to the USDA. The average American now consumes about three pounds of sugar each week.
Explore the life and times of escaped slave William Wells Brown, the first African-American to publish a novel, on Biography.com. William Wells Brown was a writer who was the first African-American to publish a novel. Synopsis William Wells Brown, an escaped slave, published his popular autobiography Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave in 1847. His only novel, Clotel (1853), tells the story of the daughters and granddaughters of President Thomas Jefferson and his slave Currer.
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