Sugar Bowl

Yourself! Candy is a sweet confectionary made from sugar. Some candies are known as Chocolates, Hard candies, Gummies, Gum, Gobstoppers and so much more. Sugar is too bad for you because according to research, sugar tricks your brain into thinking that you need more sweets. Also it can overload your liver. How this is affected is when there is fructose in our body which we don’t need. Instead we need glucose in our body which we anyways produce. Sugar can sometimes be a good thing. Dark…

The article “9 Shocking Facts You Need to Know About Sugar” by Larry Schwartz was published on alternet.org on 24 August, 2014. The author reveals shocking statistics about today’s sugar consumption in relation with the increase of certain diseases and explains why most people have a hard time controlling it. I have a weakness for sweets. Chocolate, candy bars, cakes with frosting, ice cream, and soda; I crave all the sweet stuff. Not only did the variety of new sweetish products grow, even the…

Sugar Changed The World Introduction In today’s world, sugar is a common ingredient in a person’s diet. According to a Forbes study in 2012, the average American adult consumes one-hundred thirty pounds of refined sugar per year (Walton, 1). Prior to sugar, honey was used as a primary sweetener. Honey does not have a consistent flavor because bees use local flowers in making their honey. Honey’s flavor can range from sweet to bitter, depending on the flowers available in a local area. In…

This hypothesis is formed by combining the two literary reviews mentioned in the beginning of this essay. Sugar is being used in this experiment because Doris Kimbrough’s article mentions that sugar is added to some commercial deicing products. However, the sugar in the commercial product is used as a binding agent to keep the deicing solution from melting off of the road. Because sugar is not a primary ingredient as a deicing solution, it is assumed that it will not increase or decrease the…

diet soda have been shown to cause weight gain. An experiment published in the scientific journal Appetite in 20__ found that rats who consumed aspartame and saccharin, artificial sweeteners, gained more weight that those rats who were given regular sugar. • But rats aren’t the only ones affected by artificial sweeter; we are just as susceptible to weight gain when consuming artificial sweeteners. A 2010 scientific review, conducted by the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, found positive…

Sweet Twin, Sugar Twin); and advantame are six alternatives to natural sugar that are commonly added to foods and incorporated into store-bought foods. Rebaudioside A (Stevia) is a natural sweetener that is also quite common (para. 3, 5). The benefits of artificial sweeteners include their concentrated flavor and their low calorie content. In fact, many companies claim…

Around the 1940’s, when there was a sugar shortage due to World War II and being thin was becoming a desired body type artificial sweeteners started to be consumed by the general public.1 This trend has continued into modern times, and has even increased. In 2003, 15% of Americans consumed Non-nutritive sweeteners compared to just 3% in 1965. 2 Artificial sweeteners, also called non-nutritive sweeteners, have a significantly reduced energy density in comparison to sugar.3 Another artificial…

(Mercola). Most people chew gum for stress relief, to achieve fresh breath, and to overcome cravings or simply just for the taste. However is there more to gum than what meets the eye? Is chewing gum even safe? Well I hate to be the one to pop your sugar coated bubble but chewing gum is very harmful for the body. Gum contains harmful ingredients such as artificial sweeteners, BHT, titanium dioxide, and gum base which not only can damage your teeth but can also destroy your overall health.…

couple of years there have been more and more sugary sweets that are becoming increasingly accessible to anyone at a lower price than fruits and veggies. It is just too easy to get the daily recommended dose of sugar in a single dessert. To make it worse, nowadays you can see different forms of sugar circulating social media, edging people to either make or get some so they can take a picture and post it. This topic is interesting to me because i am wondering why people keep eating and sharing…

sweeteners. These are synthetic sugar alternatives, which are way sweeter but have no significant calorie contribution. Sucralose and aspartame are some of the most popular artificial sweeteners with a unique combination of high sugar and low-calorie content. However, there are lots of controversies surrounding artificial sweeteners. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Aspartame has gained popularity since it was first approved for use as a table-top sugar alternative in 1981. Two years…