Sugar, Is it Sweet or Sour Sarah Richards is more effective in persuading the audience to consider changing their diet to benefit not only themselves but others around them. Richards provides information on how significant amounts of sugar will cause fatal health problems and later explains how these issues can affect others around them. To benefit your family and friends, you have to be there for them to be able to give them your love. Sarah Richards wrote, “ people who consumed more than a quarter of their daily calories of sugar were more than twice as likely to die than those who restricted their intake to less than 10% of total calories”. People associated with the one who hypothetically dies will affect their lives forever. It will affect their emotions and their actions in a negative way. By just changing your sugar intake, you will help your life as well as the others around you. …show more content…
Your decisions and health has a psychological affect on others around you.
It can change other’s health, decision making, and even their wealth. Richards writes, “... the health impacts of diet soda are linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease”. Your health decisions could start a precedent for others around you to follow your diet habits. Others may start eating bad and end up with the same health conditions as you if not worse. The illnesses that a bad diet can cause could be costly which can hit you and friends and family who may support you. This will also lead to an effect on the economy because they have to pay for your potential healthcare. By changing one thing, your sugar intake, you could benefit so many
others. Real food is what people turn to when they feel more unhealthy or go on a diet. Robin Konie states that sugar is essential to good health (line 2). Eating natural foods with sugars, like fruit, would be healthy if the consumer was able to gain enough physical activity to cancel out the sugars. Cutting out sugars completely will be unhealthy because human bodies need sugars to survive, but it would be in the best interest to keep sugars at a minimal so you don't become unhealthy. My aunt is actually suffers from diabetes and it's really hard to watch her live day by day. I sometimes think how if she had only watched her diet more carefully, she could've avoided this situation and could have been there for her family and friends. It's strange how little things like sugar can affect so many people. Do you really want your health to impede the lives of the ones around you, like your family and friends? Thinking of ways to improve your diet is a great start to a better life. One decision can have a chain reaction to a plethora of other things.
The book Sugar in the Blood was written by Andrea Stuart recalling the migration of her family from Britain to Barbados and their establishment as owners of their sugar cane plantation. Early on in the book, when recalling her most distant maternal relative, George Ashby’s, departure from his life as a blacksmith in England to the unknown “New World” Stuart states, “The why of George Ashby’s departure is something I will never know;” (10). She then goes on to make an inference based on prior research that he may have been lured by the “positive pull of the opportunities represented by the New World” (10). This paragraph is a great example of how the overall book is constructed. It is generally made up of research on Stuart’s genealogy and then
The New York Soda Ban is a step in the wrong direction and efforts should be put towards making life better, rather than focusing on a movement that will have little to no effect. Realize that I am not stating the soda should be drank, because even I know that soda is harmful towards the body and is one of the leading causes of obesity. However, I believe that the soda ban will have little effect and that time and money should be applied somewhere where the act would have an effect of making life better. The reason I do not believe this ban will do as much good as stated, is because the ban is flawed. This brings me to my first point, which is, one cup of boysenberry juice has 256 grams of sugar, equaling to 225 calories. One cup of Cola only
Aaron, Daniel G. and Michael B. Siegel. "Sponsorship of National Health Organizations by Two Major Soda Companies." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 52, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 20-30. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2016.08.010. The United States has the “highest rates of obesity in the world” which can be caused by the consumption of soda. A American drinks about 46 gallons of soda in the year of 2009, which gave the United States one of the highest rates of soda consumption. Americans consume sodas every day and is one of the reason people start to gain weight. To find ways to reduce consumption of soda is very important because it
"How Tatiana De Rosnay Turned French History Into ‘Sarah’s Key’." Speakeasy RSS. N.p., 14 July 2011. Web. 21 Nov. 2015.
you are on the wrong path a 20 oz. serving of Coke contains 240 calories, compared with 200 calories in a 16oz. size; for people who drink a soda a day or a week, That can add up to 14,600 calories a year. So you can gain 4lbs of weight gain each year if you continue to drink 16oz. a day or even twice a week. There are companies that are mad about this because it can make their business bad and make others better because they can simply not sell 16oz. of soda to a individual but, they probably don’t even realize that each time they sell a product they are making them gain weight and making them unhealthy. These companies don’t care about your health they just care about making money and moving on while we are over here drinking and eating stuff that’s not good for
According to The World Health Organization, “Obesity is the imbalance between declining energy expenditure due to physical inactivity and high energy in the diet (excess calories whether from sugar, starches or fat) …. Increasing physical activity, in addition to reducing intakes of food high in fat and foods and drinks high in sugars, can prevent unhealthy weight gain” (Who). The World Health Organization has recognized that soda and other sugary drinks a...
People do not often stop to think about why the world is how it is today and when people do, they tend to think about war, victory, defeat, and even their heritage, however many of them neglect to think about daily necessities that have influenced the outcomes of many different empires. One major impact on the rise and fall of multiple domains that is often overlooked is food, and in particular, sugar. Sugar has affected economies, the way of life, and industry all over the world. Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power, stops to discuss how sugar has been a basic building block that has developed and transformed Europe and America and how the world has changed the production and consumption of sugar from a luxury into a staple of our diet by ultimately altering eating habits and work patterns in modern times.
According to the article, Too Much Can Make Us Sick (http://www.sugarscience.org/too-much-can-make-us-sick/), “Heart disease. Diabetes. These chronic conditions are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Increasingly, scientists are focusing on a common set of underlying metabolic issues that raise people's risk for chronic disease. It turns out that the long-term overconsumption of added sugars is linked to many of these dysfunctions.” This means that people living today, have a lot more trouble with diseases because of our unhealthy sugar intake compared to the
If you are not convinced, a very prominent side effect of this shift is seen in the Australian child obesity statistics. According to the ABS, in 2008, a staggering 25% of Australian children were suffering from obesity and the amount of obese boys aged 5-17 has doubled since 1995. That is a quarter of children gasping for air as they merely walk. A major cause of these terrifying statistics is due to sugar alone. A report from the Australian newspaper said “Children consume three times more sugar than is recommended. Soft drinks are the biggest source, accounting for 29% of the sugar intake of 11 to 18 year olds and 16% for younger children.” Soft drink consumption in Australia has shot up from an average of 65 litres per year in the early 1970s to about 100 litres today. We as a nation can no longer hide away from this epidemic, if we continue with our current habits then our children’s futures are already written for them. Their lives will become ones of suffering and short life expectancies. We need to stop this now before obesity kills our
The article, Soda Consumption Does Not Equal Obesity, states that soda is not the only reason people are obese. When people are more active, they are less likely to have an obesity-related illness. Being active plays an important role because people are constantly burning fat, which makes it less likely for them to be overweight or obese. Economists from Emory University declare that soft drinks do not have a big impact on weight. The reason is that when untaxed, soft drinks only represent 7% of a soda drinker’s calorie intake.
Mosbergen, Dominique. "Diet Soda Health Risks: Study Says Artificial Sweeteners May Cause Weight Gain, Deadly Diseases (VIDEO)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 11 July 2013. Web. 09 Jan. 2014.
A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Consuming two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500% greater than those who do not consume diet soda.Diet sodas contain mold inhibitors. They go by the names sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate, and they’re used in nearly all diet sodas. “These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it – they knock it out altogether,” Peter Piper, a professor of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., told a British newspaper. The preservative has also been linked to hives,asthma, and other allergic conditions, according to the Center for Science in the Public
The poem Making Sarah Cry shows a lot throughout the poem but the theme is perseverance, as also shown in the story Don't Give Up the Fight. In the story Don't Give Up the Fight, a girl shows perseverance through being bullied and then later standing up for herself and telling the principal about the situation.Even though the girl tells the principal about the situation and deals with it different than sarah does in Making Sarah Cry. In the poem Making Sarah Sry sarah can't stick up for herself when it comes to it, but when she sees the little boy being bullied she stands up for him right away. This shows her perseverance to be able to withstand being bullied by the little boy, but when the little boy is bullied she shows perseverance because the boy does not like it.
It could be said that, soda can harm our teeth.In health prep.com it says that soda has a high pH level.Soda can also influence our other dietary choices like "deficient in dietary fiber,vitamins, and minerals".If you just have "one can of soda a day, an individual can go into a sugar crash". So soda is bad for our diets and health.(health prep)
Sugar was once thought of to be a special treat, but now the average American gets one third of their daily calories from sugar (Duff). This incredible statistic has caused sugar addiction to be more common, resulting in common health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, all of which are the adverse effects of consuming more sugar than the human body can handle.