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Google questions:

"How much sugar does the average American consume?"

17 teaspoons per day, or 60 pounds a year.

Alcohol?
Equivalent of 2.3 to 2.5 gallons of pure alcohol.

Coffee?
The average American consumes approximately 1,095 cups of coffee per year, or about 3 cups per day.

Chocolate?
The average American consumes approximately 11 to 12 pounds (about 5 kilograms) of chocolate per year.

Red meat?
The average American consumes approximately 58.8 pounds of red meat per year.

Cynical me asks . . . how much money in a brown envelope from any food industry buys a dietary recommendation for the food pyramid?

Google can't answer that one.

But if you want to improve your diet, there's a few hints there.

EDIT:
Plenty of graphical representations of food pyramids from America, Asia and elsewhere if you search Google images.