Sugar Candy Research Papers

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Serenity Garcia Garcia
Grade 8 science
Mr. Loewen
3 February 2017
Period 7
Sugar Candy Sugary foods can cause many things, like heart problems. For decades fat, not sugar has been blamed for this particular health problem. For centuries heart disease has been caused by sugary food. About 610,000 have died over the sugar they had, heart attacks and strokes. If the word got spread around about the cause of sugar the sugar industry would have lots to lose. The sugar industry tried to influence what scientist said about sugar. The magazine I read consist of analyzing past research papers to develop a main conclusion on a topic. Decades ago the foundation paid three nutrition

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