"As of tonight, you have just four days to find your inappropriate sexy costume," John Oliver said on last night's episode of his talk show.
But after quick reminder that it's officially time to find your racy get-up, the topic turned to the sugar industry as the 37-year-old host expressed his concerns over the prevalence of sugar in the foods we consume.
"Is it really fair to describe sugar a treat considering how much we eat it all year round?" he questioned before sharing a few alarming statistic about the abundance of sugar in the American diet.
After Oliver revealed that the average American consumes 75 pounds of sugar per year, he quipped, "That's like eating Michael Cera's weight in sugar every single year."
Using Clamato juice as an example, Oliver explained that we ''have no idea how prevalent sugar is in almost everything we eat," adding that the popular cocktail drink has 11 grams of sugar in one serving.
Noting that sugar is one of the "key suspects" for the high obesity rate in our society, Oliver said we should all be informed "when sugar is added to your food."
His biggest beef with the sugar industry stems from the high amount Americans consume unknowingly, and while the FDA has tried to introduce a new nutrition label to help keep consumers informed, the proposal has been met with fierce opposiion.
"Being forced to reveal how much sugar you are adding to people's food might seem pretty mild, but there is no way the food manufacturing industry is going to let that happen," he said, adding that Ocean Spray sent a letter to the FDA asking that the company be exempt from using disclosure labels due to the "unpalatable" taste of cranberries sans sugar.
He then revealed that the proposed food label will measure the sugar content in grams instead of teaspoons. "No one understands the metric system, which is why this proposed FDA food label is completely missing the point," he said. "If they really want us to understand how much sugar is in our food, they need to find a measurement we can immediately grasp."
Of course, Oliver has a solution, so watch the clip to hear his nutty idea!