Health/Fitness Corner Sugar…….Friend or Foe??? Do you have a sweet tooth? Do you drink soda and other sugar filled liquids? If you answered yes to these questions keep reading. Did you know one can of soda has fourteen teaspoons of sugar in it? If you drink one can of soda a day for a week you are consuming 98 teaspoons of sugar. Even worse….one soda a day for a month equals 392 teaspoons of sugar. The average American eats about one hundred pounds of sugar a year. Sugar is added to prepared
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known as sugar cane. They planted it, and then they chewed it. Surprisingly, they liked it so much that sugar became a part of their religion! Humans have fallen in love with sugar thousands of years ago, and are still deeply attached to it today. In “Your Favorite Drinks Can Wreck Your Body” by Russ Lloyd and “Banning Large Sodas is Legal and Smart” by Lawrence O. Gostin, they examine the growing problem of sugary drinks in the United States. People and children are ingesting more sugar than ever
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Not Processed With all the focus on getting healthier through eating right and exercising these days, I am making a stand try to completely eliminate processed foods from my diet. If you see a food product in a box, a bag, or any type of packaging and it did not come from a health food store chances are it’s processed. Foods that are processed lose most of their nutritional value and substituted with unhealthy fillers like sugar and carbohydrates. Artificial colors, sweeteners, high fructose
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of a nutritional snack (Mooney 2011). Television, the internet, and movies bombard them with advertisements for the latest candy, soda, or chips. Vending machines and à la carte lunch options at school are filled with sugar and fat. Even very young children are regularly eating junk food. As per a Gerber Products study, parents permit ten percent of toddlers to eat candy each and every day. In addition, 21 percent of toddlers eat french fries daily, while 23 percent wash them down with sweetened
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Sodium Erythorbate 3 Flour 8 MSG 4 Sugar 8 Vegetable Protein 4 Iodized Salt 8 Cornstarch 4 Vegetable Protein 9 Sugar 4 Spices 9 Water 4,5 MSG 9 Iodized Salt 5 Flavor 9 Pork 5 Sodium Nitrite 9 Beef 5 4.) Heinz Tomato Ketchup 10 Mechanically Separated Chicken 5 Ingredients 10 Water 10 2.) PureFoods Corned Beef 5 Tomato Paste 10 Ingredients 5 Sugar 10 Cooked Beef 6 Vinegar 10 Beef Broth
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rumble because I can smell something delicious. I always remember how the lovely caramel perfumed her kitchen; it’s the kind of sweet smell any child would dream about. Watching her make caramel was a treat; it looked like magic, seeing the white sugar turn into a golden brown
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Candies are ideal choice when your product requires exceptional color, aroma, or flavor quality. Most commonly, candies are hard molded sugar that may be presented by designated forms or shards with highly concentrated color and rich flavor. On the other hand, tomato (Lycopersicum Esculentum) is a common name for a perennial herb. It belongs to the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and for its edible fruit. Botanically, the tomato is a fruit, but for purposes
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The Highs and Lows of carbohydrates How do foods affect blood sugar levels? The old myth that a sugary snack will cause a dramatic rise, and then a fall, in blood sugar levels has been overturned as researchers find out more about the physiological effects of foods on blood sugar levels. New ways to measure just how our blood sugar will react to various foods has provided insights into the prevention and control of conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease and has also revolutionised
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containing single, double, or multiple sugar units.Simple Carbohydrates are made up of one of two units and typically sweet tasting. Examples of these are table sugar, syrup, juices, and milk.Complex Carbohydrates are made of thousands of sugar units. Examples of these are Starchy Vegetables, Grains, and Fiber. | | | How They Broken Down?A digestible simple sugar and starches get converted into glucose, being utilized as the main fuel for the body. After eating a meal, the glucose rises signaling
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is an “artificial” sweetener. By definition it means; made by human skills. High fructose corn syrup was developed in the 1960’s and began being incorporated into the things we drink and slowly but surely replaced the natural sugar. Since it was produce much cheaper than sugar that derived from cane and beets, the wonderful government began subsiding the corn companies. According to the NPD Group, a market research firm, more than half of all Americans are concerned that high fructose corn syrup.
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