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Sugar in processed foods is as common as sliced bread

Super Bowl party food
Super Bowl party food, taken Feb. 5, 2012.
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This week we'll take a look at some of the bitter truth about sugar. The average American is consuming more sugar and we may not even know it's in the foods we eat.

MPR News' Kerri Miller and examine how sugar became omnipresent in our culture, and what it is doing to our bodies and minds.