Babies named AlexaPer capita sugar consumption in the US
American per-capita sugar consumption declining alongside babies named Alexa. Two completely unrelated trends in the same direction, sharing a calendar of quiet retreat. The dietary advice and the smart-speaker product, both retiring an old default.
US per-capita sugar consumption has trended down across this window as the no-added-sugar movement, sugar-tax discussions, and substitution toward artificial sweeteners reduced average intake. The Alexa baby name fell sharply after Amazon's Echo (2014) made the word a default smart-speaker prompt; parents quietly stopped choosing the name. Two completely unrelated declines sharing a window because the same thirteen years saw the same household quietly retire two completely different defaults.
Two unrelated household defaults retreated. The decade was good at quiet retirements.
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