English 240 September 10, 2015 Component 3 Research Question: Are artificial sweeteners a safe alternative to sugar? Can they help people lose weight, or can they actually have the opposite affect? Working Thesis Statement: Americans should eliminate the regular consumption of artificial sweeteners because it could have a reverse effect on losing weight and can lead to chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease
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found that artificial sweeteners have a side effect. Sweeteners change the bacterial composition of the gut in mice and humans. The new bacteria causes higher blood glucose levels putting humans and mice in danger for diabetes. Many people question whether this study is real or not but scientists have been studying artificial sweeteners potential threat for a long time. Many new studies are being planned for the future that will determine the amount and need for artificial sweeteners in the future
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"Artificial Sweeteners." School of Public Health. 2015. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/artificial-sweeteners/. This citation describes the health benefits and concerns surrounding artificial sweeteners. It was written by Harvard University's School of Public Health which is renowned for their research. The article looks at a wide variety of studies surrounding the health benefits and concerns about artificial sweeteners. All of these studies were conducted within the
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NOT Use Artificial Sweeteners There are 3 BIG reasons to NOT use artificial sweeteners. I hope that you will read this information carefully and make the choice to stop putting these dangerous products into your body. Marketing campaigns around these products are powerful and enticing. The manufacturers want you to believe that they are useful in controlling your weight. The part of the story that they conveniently omit are the dangers connected to these products. Because the sweeteners have either
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ingredient before they buy products and they usually choose artificial sweeteners over natural sugar. They think artificial sweeteners will not add extra calories to the body and help them to control their weight. However, many health experts doubt the safety of artificial sweeteners after doing research about it. They have discovered several dangerous elements in artificial sweeteners. This paper reports the types of common artificial sweeteners, the reason why they are harmful, their bad influences
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First Draft for Sugar vs Artificial Sweetener Sugar is one of the best things that has ever happened in human existence because we have what’s called a “sweet tooth,” so obviously sugar is the only thing that would cure a “sweet tooth” whether it is in the form of a pastry, cake, cookie, chocolate, and every other thing that is sweet. “1822: Americans consume 45 grams of sugar every five days, or the amount of sugar in a can of coke.” (“Why sugar”).But Artificial Sweeteners has taken a major hit
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Ira Remsen discovered the artificial sweetener, saccharin. He tasted something sweet while eating rolls at dinner and realized it came from the coal tar he was working with earlier in his lab. Remsen did not get credit for discovering the artificial sweetener, Constantin Fahlberg did by patenting it. Artificial sweeteners such as, saccharin, is supposed to be a substitute for sugar. It has fewer calories than sugar. With it having fewer calories than naturally, it will help a person dieting with
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Granulated sugars contain monosaccharide’s that include glucose, fructose and galactose. Monosaccharides are the most basic units of biologically important carbohydrates. Glucose provides energy, fructose enhances the taste, and galactose is a less sweetener form of the three. Sugarcane made its appearance in the 8th century B.C. and has been lead to believe it was derived from India. Nutritional value for granulated sugar is that it contains about 99.98g of carbohydrates per 100g, .03g of water, about
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Cucurbitaceous (bitter gourds) family should not be mistaken for purple mangosteen, The plant is cultivated for its pulp and made into an extract that is 300 times sweeter than cane or beet sugar with almost zero calories and has been used as a natural sweetener native to southern China and northern Thailand for thousands of years. In those regions is has been known to treat obesity, diabetes, heat stroke and throat infections. It’s also called “Buddha fruit “, “Longevity fruit” or “Luo han guo”. Monk fruit
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Leah Arvay ENG 1020 052 November 11, 2013 The Truth about Sweeteners When you go to the store do you ever notice that all of these sweet foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar and zero calories? And if all these foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar in them, then why are our obesity numbers in this country continuing to rise? The American Heart Association says in their 2013 Statistical Fact Sheet that 23.9 million children ranging the ages of 2 to 19 are either overweight or obese
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