The concept of youth is like a double edged blade. On one side I have the feeling of invincibility on the other hand I have the inevitability of time. Being young could be deceiving; it could mean we do foolish things at times, or that we could be carless of our actions. We don’t think of the consequences. Because we live in the moment. It may not always be easy to make the right choices. We may pick or do certain actions just because it’s convenient at the time. I am well aware of all the poor decisions that I and many others make throughout the day. I used to volunteer at a hospital, where I saw life and death. I saw many people receiving the joyous news and the grief of bad news. I used to think it was hard being in a hospital because
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The way I eat can shape my life; the way I maintain myself can show whether I will have a long healthy life or a short complicated life. Just like most people I am always tempted by sweets anything that’s accessible to me at that given moment. But I haven’t really considered the dangers of sugar. Sugar can affect my liver and trick my body into gaining weight. According to the article “What Happens One Hour after Drinking a Can of Coke”, there is a process on how our body takes sugar, insulin bursts through, as of result of the insulin coming through the liver responds by turning the sugar into fat, forty minutes past by so the liver dumps the sugar and moves it into our bloodstream . Having a constant amount of sugar in your everyday diet can cause your body to be overworked, leading to many diseases. There are three types of sugars glucose, fructose, and galactose each causing a different effect to the body. The article “How an artificial sweetener increases appetite” says that “Sucralose is a chemical relative of sugar and the study of sucralose found that the brain system detects that lack of energy and adjusts to increase appetite to compensate”. Due to the recent high consumption of sugar, obesity rates have started to become a rising threat, causing problems, pain, and death. I am constantly surrounded by examples of why I should better myself and take care of myself. So I have recently started to document how much calories and sugar I consume in a day. The first day I consumed 15 grams of sugar, the next day 17 grams, and the following 11 grams. In those three day I consumed 43 grams of sugar. So if I continue the way I am eating in a month I would have consumed 430 grams of sugar. In a year I would have consumed 5,160 grams of sugar; which is only 11 pounds. The average amount is said to be 150-170 pounds of sugar in a
The way I eat can shape my life; the way I maintain myself can show whether I will have a long healthy life or a short complicated life. Just like most people I am always tempted by sweets anything that’s accessible to me at that given moment. But I haven’t really considered the dangers of sugar. Sugar can affect my liver and trick my body into gaining weight. According to the article “What Happens One Hour after Drinking a Can of Coke”, there is a process on how our body takes sugar, insulin bursts through, as of result of the insulin coming through the liver responds by turning the sugar into fat, forty minutes past by so the liver dumps the sugar and moves it into our bloodstream . Having a constant amount of sugar in your everyday diet can cause your body to be overworked, leading to many diseases. There are three types of sugars glucose, fructose, and galactose each causing a different effect to the body. The article “How an artificial sweetener increases appetite” says that “Sucralose is a chemical relative of sugar and the study of sucralose found that the brain system detects that lack of energy and adjusts to increase appetite to compensate”. Due to the recent high consumption of sugar, obesity rates have started to become a rising threat, causing problems, pain, and death. I am constantly surrounded by examples of why I should better myself and take care of myself. So I have recently started to document how much calories and sugar I consume in a day. The first day I consumed 15 grams of sugar, the next day 17 grams, and the following 11 grams. In those three day I consumed 43 grams of sugar. So if I continue the way I am eating in a month I would have consumed 430 grams of sugar. In a year I would have consumed 5,160 grams of sugar; which is only 11 pounds. The average amount is said to be 150-170 pounds of sugar in a