Corn syrup

McDonalds is somewhere everyone has eaten at, at least once in their lifetime. What they do not know is what they are eating. People today trust anyone with their food in order to save time for work and other important tasks. The time spent on cooking meals in America has "fallen by half since the mid-sixties" (Pollan, "Cooked" 3). Nutrition has been put in the hands of fast food corporations around the world. Unfortunately, fast food corporations such as McDonalds are mainly concerned about…

Childhood Obesity in America: Blame Fast-Food! Throughout the United States, the young people of America are among the portion of the increasing rate of various health effects. A diverse amount of children is affected by an assortment of health issues which are caused by a lack of physical activity and a nutritious diet. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “Obesity now affects 1 in 6 children and adolescents in the United States” (“Childhood Overweight,” 2015).…

Ch 2: Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) Unpronounceable C) More than five ingredients in number or that include D) High fructose corn syrup a). Pollan says any food with these characteristics has crossed over from being a food to a food product. He thinks that food scientists’ attempts to make food more nutritious just make them more complicated, not necessarily better for you. b). I chose this suggestion because I normally do not look at the ingredients,…

rapidly with an animal foods based diet. So if you know ahead of time that you have caner genes in the family it would be wise to be checked for cancerous cells and then lead more to a plant based diet. We should continue to remove high fructose corn syrup in our…

Sugar is a story full of money, work, and lost lives. The story begins in 326 B.C. with Nearchus, a captain in the army of Alexander the Great, that stumbles upon the "sweet reed". Sugar cane originated in New Guinea in 9000-8000 B.C., but Nearchus is recognized as the first person to discover sugar cane. From New Guinea, sugar spread to North India (1000-500 B.C.), China (200 A.D.), Persia- Judi Shapur (500 A.D.), Egypt (700 A.D.), and Hawaii (1100 A.D). In the 600s, people did not know what…

coats, mittens or gloves, hats, large boots, and many other things to stay warm. With the Iroquois, a lot of their clothing is embroidered by the women, as mentioned previously. They use a lot of the environment to make their clothes; using fur, hides, corn husks, plants, tree fibers, animal sinew, and twisted elm-bar fibers. Some of the decoration that they used for their clothing porcupine quills and moose hairs. Some of the basic traditional clothing of the Sioux includes moccasins, ponchos,…

Glyphosate or Roundup is the mostly commonly used herbicide in the world. A Monsanto scientist discovered the chemical in 1976, and its use has risen dramatically over time. This is in part due to the introduction of Roundup ready seeds in 1996. Glyphosate has increased from 5.7 million kilograms in 1990 to 125 million kilograms in 2014 (Benbrook 2016). Honeybee hives have also decreased over this period from approximately 3 million in 1992 to 2.5 million in 2011 (Monsanto & HBAC 2014).…

They are even more dangerous than regular white sugar. Processed food is where the deadly substances are found the most. Studies show that 74% of goods sold at the supermarket contains added sugars. High-Fructose corn syrup (HFCS), found in many processed foods. resultant from corn starch, this might be the most terrifying sweet yet, contains left over mercury, a by-product of chemical processing. This can be 75x! sweeter that white sugar. Also some health enthusiasts use agave as an…

In the book “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It,” published in 2010, the author, Gary Taubes, discusses the observations of Hilda Bruch, a German physician, who arrived in New York City during the depression in 1934 to be astonished by the abundance of obese children especially since the only food one could get was standing in the bread line or at the soup kitchen. So why were children getting fat in a time when food was scarce but outside activity was abundant? Did environmental factors…

aware of the dangers present in these foods. Processed foods contain additives and ingredients which have often been manipulated in such a way to make the product “better” in some way. Processed foods are often high in sugar and High fructose corn syrup (HFCS). (Gunnars, 2017). HFCS is made when an enzyme is added to glucose to make half of the glucose, fructose. (Shewfelt, 2017). Glucose and fructose are both types of sugars. Sugar, when consumed in excess, is extremely harmful to the human…