Oro Cookies Blizard

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Sugar is a food substance that has managed to have large influence over our modern life, health and our history. Currently, “ Most Americans are consuming way too much — on average, nearly 66 pounds of added sugar per person, every year.” By being part of the American nation I can relate to the high consumption of sugar in my daily life. I have grown up with fast food restaurants all around me from Mcdonald's too Dairy Queen. In the 7th grade, I had my first small Oreo Cookies Blizard. I thought it was the most amazing most delicious thing I had ever eaten in the whole entire world. But little did I know I was consuming about 283 grams of sugar in one small cup. This was because I was not aware or educated of the nutrition and health conditions …show more content…

According to the results of a study made by Dr.Robert Lustig and his colleagues: “He collected detailed food questionnaires from each of the adolescents to get an idea of the average amount of calories they ate per day, then designed a special menu for each of them for nine days that matched the total numbers of calories they would normally eat. The only difference in the nine-day diet was that most of the sugar the children ate was replaced by starch — the overall number of calories remained the same. The children weighed themselves daily, and if they were losing weight, they were told to eat more of the provided food in order to keep their weight the same throughout the study.” This means you can be the same weight and contain your daily calories even if you lower your sugar doses. The benefits for Some of the children were that they went from being insulin resistant, which is a precursor state to developing diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, in which the body’s insulin levels can no longer keep up with the pace of breaking down sugar that’s coming in from the diet, to then becoming insulin sensitive. Most importantly after the nine days the article claims that “Overall, their fasting blood sugar levels dropped by 53%, along with the amount of insulin their bodies produced since insulin is normally needed to break down carbohydrates and sugars. Their triglyceride and LDL levels also declined and, …show more content…

One statistic I would like to incorporate into this research paper is that “Over the past 10 years in the United States the rates of diabetes and obesity have reached epidemic proportions. Similarly, managing heart disease has become a commonplace activity for many Americans.” This information is important because it compares the leading cause of death; heart disease-of Americans to the rates of diabetes and obesity. For years we have known that diabetes and obesity has increased but for it to be compared to heart disease which is astonishing. Leading sugar too be causing deaths too

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