Sugar – All Sweetness and Light? Sugar in all its forms is officially a simple carbohydrate. This means the body will convert is into glucose which is then available as energy. Then it gets less simple. Depending on the type of sugar used our health will be impacted rather differently‚ sometimes bad‚ sometimes very bad depending on using either natural or refined types of sugar. Whereas the usual over use of any sugar is likely to add fat and body weight and also play havoc with blood sugar levels
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artificial sweeteners vs. Regular sugar differs drastically. As you enter aisle 5 in the super market‚ you may notice that there is regular coke and diet coke. When reading the nutrition labels‚ diet coke contains 0 grams of sugar and 0 calories. The idea of a coke that tastes exactly like the regular version being sugar free and calorie free‚ the offer just seems too good to pass. But what most people don’t know is that the products that are claimed to be sugar free actually contain artificial
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Having a sugar addiction is harmful to your health. If you continually give in to your cravings and eat that donut‚ cookie‚ candy or other sweet product‚ it leads to a rapid spike in blood sugar followed by the inevitable crash which leads to even more cravings for sugar. Over time this sugar addiction can lead to serious health problems. Sugar has no nutritional value but lots of calories and it goes straight to the bloodstream where it raises blood glucose levels‚ stimulates the release of insulin
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Sugar replacers Definition: Sugar replacers are a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste‚ usually with less food energy‚ commonly used on a one-for-one replacement basis for sugar in recipes. Issues: The replacement of high energy sugar with sugar replacers limits food energy intake so as to allow us to eat our usual food‚ at the same time control a desirable weight and prevent tooth decay. However‚ extensive consumption may lead to side effects. Example: Xylitol‚ Date‚ Sugar
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How Sugar Impacted the World In the dispute of sugar‚ one debatable issue has been whether sugar is beneficial or harmful to the world. People who believe sugar is harmful argue that it is one cause of diabetes. On the other hand‚ those who believe that sugar is beneficial claim that sugar taste good and it is in every food so it cannot be avoided. Sugar has not had a positive impact on the world because it causes obesity‚ diabetes‚ and sugar also helped promote slavery in the past. What is your
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in most other industrialized nations. So where’s the money going? The Credit Suisse Research Institute’s 2013 study1 "Sugar: Consumption at a Crossroads" found that 30 to 40 percent of US healthcare expenditures are for diseases directly related to the overconsumption of sugar! We spend more than a trillion dollars each year fighting the damaging health effects of sugar. This‚ combined with the massive waste‚ fraud‚ and inefficiency of our healthcare system‚ make it completely unsustainable
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When reading “The Toxic Truth about Sugar” the reader may believe it is just another essay telling Americans they are all obese and will die at an early age if they don’t start eating healthier. However‚ it brought up some different points the reader may not be aware of. The authors brought up some valid points to support their argument. The title was creative because many people do not believe sugar is toxic to their body. In the world today people love sugar and it is all around. Many foods people
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The production of reducing sugars by acid of carbohydrate cereals powder‚ jams (total sugar content) and jams (reducing sugar content) were performed in order to study reducing sugar production. The study involved hydrolysis carbohydrate cereals powder and jams by immersing in boiling water at environmental temperature. Acid hydrolysis was carried out through reflux boiling for 20 minutes with 10ml 0f 1.5M concentrations of diluted sulphuric acid. Reducing sugars concentrations were determined
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First‚ we must establish whether sugar over-consumption is damaging to one’s health. In the Vice article‚ the writer made an eyebrow-raising statement when she said‚ "sugar is devoid of any real nutrition‚ messes with your metabolism‚ and rots your teeth...How bad could it really be?" This was interesting to me because I always thought sugar was an extremely important source of energy and that our body had a built function to regulate the amount of sugar we consume. Hilary Pollack reported on a study
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To Study the Filterability and Quality of Raw sugar for Refining ABSTRACT This study was particularly designed to evaluate the quality parameters of raw sugar which ultimately affect the filterability of raw sugar. It is a cane sugar which has been minimally processed and product of the first stage of cane sugar refining process which has some very distinctive characteristics. Filterability of raw sugars is one of the primary sugar quality parameters. To the refiner‚ the filterability of
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