Maple syrup

It is not the government’s job to tell us what we are allowed to put in our bodies. A lot of controversy has come up with the Soda Ban Bill. The bill wants to limit the amount of soft drinks sold over 16 ounces. Ultimately, it is an individual’s choice on what they put in their body, and it is arbitrary for the government to try and regulate how much soda people consume. The government is trying to treat us like children who cannot make their own drink choices and it is unwarranted. It is…

knowing how many calories in the food that the food truly has. Normally, sugar has more calories comparing to the same mass of food, which means eating sugar is easier to get fat. Besides, people are used to talking about the evils of high-fructose corn syrup but the new research shows that even pure cane sugar might be just bad for you. It had become an independent risk cause for not only cardiovascular diseases, but also other chronic diseases, including liver cirrhosis and dementia.…

While watching this movie, I was shocked to learn about sugar and how it metabolizes. I knew before watching the film that sugar was bad for, but I did not exactly know why. The man in the film made an interesting comparison between a 20oz Coke and almonds. Each item both had 160 calories, but they digested completely different. Almonds metabolize slower because of the fiber they contain. Coke on the other hand, metabolizes much faster in the liver and your body gets a sugar high. When your…

“Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to food and drinks… and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit concentrates” (WHO). Despite this report, sugar lobbyists recommend 25 percent which is two and half times the scientific recommendation from the WHO. Because these two numbers are largely different from one another and because…

Danica Schlome Grade 12W Life Orientation CAT Part A Activity 2: Visual Diary "Banting for Babies": Professor Tim Noakes Trial 1 "Banting for Babies" - Professor Tim Noakes Trial Banting is a high fat, low carbohydrate (LCHF) diet (Ketogenic Diet) that is named after William Banting. This diet has been made popular by Professor Tim Noakes and became the "nutrition hype" in South Africa in 2015. The aim of the diet is to break people's addictions to sugar, which they obtain from the…

I strongly believe that chocolate milk shouldn’t be served in schools. I believe this because there is too much sugar. Also, chocolate milk can lead to long and short term health problems. Jamie Oliver says that chocolate milk is liquid candy. Schools should be banned from serving chocolate milk. Ann Cooper, the head of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District in Louisville, Colorado says,“Chocolate milk is soda dressed up.” This is true because of the sugar content. In the…

Food is important to all life on Earth. Food is needed for energy, without energy there is no life. It also used in many cultures around the world, and brings all different people together, but if food is so important, why have we stopped caring about how our food is prepared? There are many different types of technology that have changed the food industry as a whole. Pasteurization, processing, factory farming, and genetically modified foods are a few ways the industry has been changed.…

American eats about 50 grams of this sugar each day, but this could be causing them serious health problems. High fructose corn syrup contributes to fat deposits in the liver, which increasing buildup of lipoproteins. This may cause plaque buildup and narrowing of blood vessels. Recent studies have also shown that nearly half of food tested with high fructose corn syrup contained mercury. Although the amount was small, researchers were concerned about the risk of mercury poisoning in children…

scientific community sought to find the truth as to whether high fructose corn syrup could really be responsible for this dramatic spike in obesity. Dr. John White is a leading opponent of Brady's hypothesis linking HFCS with obesity. Since the HFCS-obesity hypothesis was introduced by Dr. Bray in 2004, as White (2008) put it: ...it quickly took on a life of its own. This once mundane ingredient [high fructose corn syrup] became vilified in scientific circles and then in the public arena when…

In 1957, biochemists Richard Marshall and Earl Kooi developed the chemical process for making high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS is an alternative sweetener to sucrose originally derived from corn. Through a chemical and enzymatic process, corn is broken down through the molecular levels until the monosaccharide fructose is produced (Parker et al, 2010). The product was adopted by the food and beverage industry in the 1970’s. Due to it’s diversability and cost effectiveness, it was embraced…