Health-conscious Americans today count calories, fat, carbs, protein, and nearly every other nutritional category there is. In “Sweet Tooth Gone Bad: Why 22 Teaspoons of Sugar per Day Is Risky,” author Allison Aubrey explains why people should focus their concern on another nutrient: added sugar. Aubrey opens the article by presenting a new study done on added sugar, which claims that those who eat an excess of added sugar are twice as likely to die from heart disease than those who limited their sugar intakes. She unpacks this study by pointing out existing health regulations and proposing solutions to this potentially catastrophic problem. In this thought-provoking article, Aubrey successfully uses several appeals to ethos, relevant statistics
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Explaining how to avoid eating excessive amounts of added sugar, she recants the following short story:
For example, eliminating one 12-ounce can of sugar-sweetened soda can cut about 9 teaspoons of sugar. But other common sources of added sugar can take you by surprise. For example, this morning I ate a small, 4-ounce cup of low-fat organic peach yogurt. I chalked it up as a very healthful breakfast, but when I looked at the nutrition label, it had 17 grams of sugar. (Aubrey)
In this short narrative, Allison Aubrey gives very applicable information and gives invaluable advice: read the label. While maintaining authority, she lets the reader into her personal life a little bit – an excellent appeal to pathos.
In addition, Aubrey peppers in surprising statistics throughout the paper: an appeal to logos. She recognizes that her audience would appreciate hard and fast evidence, and she responds accordingly. For example, she points out that on average, Americans are consuming triple their recommended sugar intakes (Aubrey). This fact, among many others, taps into the reader’s logical mind, which makes her use of such statistics another strong element of
Explaining how to avoid eating excessive amounts of added sugar, she recants the following short story:
For example, eliminating one 12-ounce can of sugar-sweetened soda can cut about 9 teaspoons of sugar. But other common sources of added sugar can take you by surprise. For example, this morning I ate a small, 4-ounce cup of low-fat organic peach yogurt. I chalked it up as a very healthful breakfast, but when I looked at the nutrition label, it had 17 grams of sugar. (Aubrey)
In this short narrative, Allison Aubrey gives very applicable information and gives invaluable advice: read the label. While maintaining authority, she lets the reader into her personal life a little bit – an excellent appeal to pathos.
In addition, Aubrey peppers in surprising statistics throughout the paper: an appeal to logos. She recognizes that her audience would appreciate hard and fast evidence, and she responds accordingly. For example, she points out that on average, Americans are consuming triple their recommended sugar intakes (Aubrey). This fact, among many others, taps into the reader’s logical mind, which makes her use of such statistics another strong element of