pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-55057″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sugar3.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”214″ /By now, American exceptionalism is a universally-accepted truism. Like dogs over cats and Star Wars over Star Trek, it#8217;s simple fact that America is qualitatively different than other nations. Some would say #8220;superior,#8221; but I think modesty is more becoming of a nation of our stature, providence, and history. Why else would extraterrestrials decide to land on the White House lawn, as they do in every culturally relevant piece of sci-fi, if we weren#8217;t exceptional? Would American parents everywhere claim their kids were special if they actually were not?/p
pBut perhaps the most conclusive evidence of our exceptionalism lies in how our nutritional labels relay information about sugar. If you go to a place like Germany or the UK and flip over a package of Haribo Goldbären (gummy bears), it#8217;ll tell you how many percentage points the sugar in the candy counts toward your daily limit. […]

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