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The Skinny: Here is something to chew on. More than 100,000 tons of gum are consumed every year. This leads to almost 400 trillion sticks of chewing gum being produced annually. The global chewing gum industry is therefore obviously anything but stretched thin. It amounts to almost $20 billion. And while the percentage of Americans chewing gum is down from earlier highs, close to 80 percent of adolescents and children have reported chewing gum in the last three months, while percent 60 percent of adults have done the game. In …
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The Skinny: Sometimes progress or at least awareness comes by way of unpleasant news. The American Heart Association (AHA) was …
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The Skinny: No one is bashing fruit. Americans simply don’t eat enough of them, which is a recipe for a …