The article, ‘The Bitter Truth About Sugar’ written by Dr. Robert H. Lustig in Dear Doctor gives awareness to people that the avalanche of sugar in the food supply causes them to get fatter and sicker. Dr Robert H. Lustig received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. After three years, he completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in 1983, and his clinical fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 1984. He spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University in New York City, and also worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Dr Robert H. Lustig is currently
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She divided her article into few parts like Do you enjoy the taste of sweet things, The Food Industry : Keeping Us Hooked, A Calorie Is Not a Calorie, Blaming the Victim and Let’s Take Back Our Health. In Let’s Take Back Our Health the writer classified into Five Things You Can Do Today. The writer first mentioned that the effect of excessive intake of sugar in the part ‘Do you enjoy the taste of sweet things’. In the Food Industry : Keeping Us Hooked part, the writer gave some data to support that sugar addiction is a real phenomenon. In ‘A Calorie Is Not a Calorie’ part, gave examples on fat and carbohydrate. In the part of ‘Blaming the victim’, the writer emphasized more on the hormone that will cause obesity and type 2 diabetes. At the last part ‘Let’s Take Back Our Health’, the writer gave examples on how to reduce or avoid the excessive intake of …show more content…
In this article, the writer used a few types of tone in different paragraphs. In the beginning of the article, the tone of the author is threatening . For example, paragraph 1 line 3, ‘It’s ironic, because in the amounts we currently consume it, sugar is a chronic toxin and it is killing us — slowly.’ He used ‘killing’ instead of ‘harming’ and I believe that this is because he wanted to attract the readers’ attention. Then, the tone of his article become direct because he wanted to pass the information and message more clearly to the readers. In the last paragraph, the author’s tone become informal. For example, paragraph 16, line 1, ‘Read the ingredients on food labels. The fewer, the better. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat
She divided her article into few parts like Do you enjoy the taste of sweet things, The Food Industry : Keeping Us Hooked, A Calorie Is Not a Calorie, Blaming the Victim and Let’s Take Back Our Health. In Let’s Take Back Our Health the writer classified into Five Things You Can Do Today. The writer first mentioned that the effect of excessive intake of sugar in the part ‘Do you enjoy the taste of sweet things’. In the Food Industry : Keeping Us Hooked part, the writer gave some data to support that sugar addiction is a real phenomenon. In ‘A Calorie Is Not a Calorie’ part, gave examples on fat and carbohydrate. In the part of ‘Blaming the victim’, the writer emphasized more on the hormone that will cause obesity and type 2 diabetes. At the last part ‘Let’s Take Back Our Health’, the writer gave examples on how to reduce or avoid the excessive intake of …show more content…
In this article, the writer used a few types of tone in different paragraphs. In the beginning of the article, the tone of the author is threatening . For example, paragraph 1 line 3, ‘It’s ironic, because in the amounts we currently consume it, sugar is a chronic toxin and it is killing us — slowly.’ He used ‘killing’ instead of ‘harming’ and I believe that this is because he wanted to attract the readers’ attention. Then, the tone of his article become direct because he wanted to pass the information and message more clearly to the readers. In the last paragraph, the author’s tone become informal. For example, paragraph 16, line 1, ‘Read the ingredients on food labels. The fewer, the better. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat