This statistic presents the results of a survey among American adults regarding their likeliness to actively include or avoid sugar in their diet. Some 28 percent of U.S. adults stated to actively try to include sugar in their diet.
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Do you try to include or to avoid sugar?
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The original question was rephrased and was originally posed as follows: Thinking about the food you eat, for each of the following please say if it is something you actively try to include in your diet, something you actively try to avoid, or something you don’t think about either way.
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Gallup. (August 3, 2015). Do you try to include or to avoid sugar? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 23, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/
Gallup. "Do you try to include or to avoid sugar?." Chart. August 3, 2015. Statista. Accessed April 23, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/
Gallup. (2015). Do you try to include or to avoid sugar?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 23, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/
Gallup. "Do You Try to Include or to Avoid Sugar?." Statista, Statista Inc., 3 Aug 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/
Gallup, Do you try to include or to avoid sugar? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/ (last visited April 23, 2025)
Do you try to include or to avoid sugar? [Graph], Gallup, August 3, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/456020/americans-likeliness-to-include-or-to-avoid-sugar/
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