Sales of sugar and sweeteners, collectively worth about $4 billion in America alone, have hit a wall.

单在美国一地，食糖和甜味剂的销售额合起来就高达40亿美元左右，已显瓶颈之势。

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As with sugar and artificial sweeteners the damage is cumulative: the longer you consume these fats, the greater the damage.

跟糖和人工甜味剂一样，它对人体的损害是累积的：你越长期吃这些脂肪，它对你的损害越大。

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Reducing intake of processed foods and replacing sugar with natural sweeteners will increase your well-being, health, and energy.

减少加工食品的摄入量和用天然甜味剂取代糖，会增加你的幸福，健康和精力。

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The participants were divided into five groups according to the amount of sugar and sugar-based sweeteners they consumed daily.

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In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.

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They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.

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The average American eats four times as much artificial sweeteners as he did 20 years ago -- and 15% more real sugar, too.

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