The State with the Biggest Sweet Tooth Is . . .

Everyone knows they should cut back on sugar a bit. And everyone plans to start doing that tomorrow . . . or the next day . . . or maybe after the summer . . . but then you have the holidays . . . so maybe next year. The American Heart Association recommends a limit of 9 added teaspoons of sugar a day for men, and just 6 for women. Apparently everyone is BLOWING PAST THAT. There’s a map that breaks down sugar intake, by state. And the state with the biggest sweet tooth is . . . Kentucky, with 21.2 teaspoons per day. Mississippi is next, and rounding out the Top 5 sugar-heavy states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, and West Virginia (Indiana and Pennsylvania came in numbers seven and eight respectively). Alaska is the state with the lowest average intake, at 14.8 teaspoons (which is STILL around double the recommended amount). Oregon is close second, followed by California, Washington, and Idaho. Ohio comes in right around the middle of the pack of the states with the biggest sweet tooth, consuming between 17 and 17.9 teaspoons of sugar per day.