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Most Americans know breakfast isn’t exactly a health food parade. Pop-Tarts are basically dessert. Donuts are obvious sugar bombs. Sugary cereals might as well come with a diabetic warning label.

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But the really mind-blowing part isn’t the sweet stuff everyone already knows about. It’s the so-called “savory” option that tons of Americans eat every single morning. You know, the one people feel good about ordering. The one that doesn’t even taste sweet but is absolutely loaded with sugar.

What is it?

A plain bagel…

There’s a big difference between being told how much sugar is in your food and actually seeing it for yourself. Once you do, it’s a total mind-blower, and it becomes pretty clear just how upside down the average American diet really is.

One post making the rounds right now puts everything into perspective.

Instead of charts or nutrition labels, it uses sugar cubes. One pile for donuts. One for cereal. One for yogurt. One for Pop-Tarts. One for granola bars. And then, sitting there quietly, a plain bagel with more sugar than most people would ever imagine.

Wall Street Apes:

This is actually insane American compares all these popular breakfast items in America. Items like donuts, cereal, yogurt, poptarts, granola bars, Bagels etc He puts sugar cubes next to each item representing how much sugar is in each You’ll never look at these foods the same

That’s the part that messes with people’s heads. A bagel doesn’t taste sweet, so we assume it’s fairly safe from sugar overload. But the body doesn’t care about the flavor. It sees refined carbs, breaks them down into sugar, and responds the same way.

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And that’s before anyone adds cream cheese, honey, or jelly. By the time breakfast is over, you’re not starting your day fueled. You’re starting it on a sugar rush, followed by the inevitable crash.

Which helps explain why this isn’t just about one breakfast. It’s about the entire US food system.

And speaking of that, this next post from an RFK Jr. fan site breaks down just how much sugar the average American is taking in every single day, and it’s a shocker.

Federal data now confirms what many people already suspected. Most calories in the US come from ultra-processed, crappy foods.

These foods are engineered to be hyper-tasty, shelf-stable, and dirt cheap, which usually means loaded with sugar, unhealthy fats, and mega-refined carbs.

And what is the result of all this unhealthy eating? Well, over 38 million Americans now have diabetes, with nearly one in four adults unaware they even have it. And millions more are prediabetic. The complications are brutal, going from kidney failure to blindness to amputations, and the cost tops $400 billion a year.

Even NPR has had to acknowledge what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been saying for years about sugar and what it’s doing to Americans.

NPR:

Many of us have trouble staying away from this. You find it in sweets like cakes, cookies, and candy. You get a rush after a couple of spoonfuls — though too much of it will make you feel sick and groggy.

It’s sugar.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has strong thoughts on the subject.

“There’s things that will never be able to eliminate like sugar,” said Kennedy. “And sugar is poison, and Americans need to know that. It is poisoning us.”

Americans consume an average of 17 teaspoons of sugar a day with some estimates as high as 34 teaspoons a day. That’s more than two or three times the recommended daily amount according to the American Heart Association.

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When RFK Jr. calls sugar poison, it makes some people feel uncomfortable, but the numbers back up what he’s saying. Americans are consuming two to three times the recommended daily amount before lunchtime.

And think about this as well…

During a so-called “pandemic” that hit obese Americans hardest, the government didn’t promote real nutrition. It handed out pizza, cake, and ice cream as incentives to take a vaccine that doesn’t even work. That doesn’t line up with concern for public health, right? Sounds more like a system that’s all about “creating and managing” illness.

And that brings us right back to that original clip with the sugar cubes on the breakfast table.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. The bagel. The granola bar. The “natural” breakfast foods that are really just candy bars with better branding. They’re not fueling Americans. They’re keeping them stuck in a loop of spikes, crashes, cravings, and long-term damage.

Breakfast isn’t supposed to wreck your metabolism before 9 a.m., but in America, that’s exactly what it does. And until people start questioning what’s actually in their food, not just how it’s marketed, nothing about this deadly cycle is going to change. Big Food and Big Pharma make way too much money for this to stop on its own. And why would they stop? Americans keep buying low-quality slop and making massive corporations even richer.

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