Americans are eating more sugar as the world warms, study finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found.When the temperature rises, Americans — especially those with less money and education — drink lots more sugary beverages and a bit more frozen desserts. It amounts to more than 100 million pounds of added sugar (358 million kilograms) consumed in a year, compared to 15 years earlier, according to a team of researchers in the U.S. and United Kingdom writing in Monday’s Nature Climate Change.