Purpose: I want to persuade my audience that sugar is a dangerous drug that is damaging America?s health. Thesis Statement: We need to know why we are addicted to sugar‚ how can stop the addiction‚ and the positive effects kicking the sugar habit will have on our lives. Attention: Are you a sugarholic? Do you eat refined sugar everyday? Can you go more than one day without eating some type of sugar containing food? Have you ever hidden candy in your home in an effort not to share them with anyone
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“Sugar‚ Why We Can’t Resist It” National Geographic 08/13 Author: Rich Cohen Sugarcane was domesticated 10‚000 years ago to the island of New Guinea Sugars added to processed foods enhance flavor & texture. They also act as a preservative to extend shelf life. The sugar that reached the west was consumed only by the nobility‚ so rare it was classified as a spice. If you worked at the sugar mill and got your
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brown sugar on the amount of CO2. To do this‚ white sugar was replaced with brown sugar and the amount of CO2 produced was calculated with a vernier gas pressure sensor. The control group was yeast and white sugar and the experimental group was yeast and brown sugar. The hypothesis that if brown sugar and yeast are mixed‚ then it will produce more CO2 than a mixture of white granulated sugar and yeast was accepted. The white sugar and yeast mixture had a slope of .003254 kPa/s. The brown sugar and
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When you think about sugar you think sweet‚ yummy and delicious! When you eat candy sometimes you think of how you might get cavities. Sugar doesn’t only cause cavities‚ it also causes obesity‚ and increases the chance of heart problems. Sweets are amazing but no one wants to have life threatening problems! But‚ we children don’t watch how much sugar we digest on a daily basis‚ which leads us to a question. How does sugar affect an average middle school students heart rate and blood pressure? Do
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No Sugar Essay Starters Sheradyn – Drama Essay ~ No sugar (Jack Davis) The play No Sugar by Jack Davis has various themes and issues covered in it. Understanding of society helps with the meaning of this text‚ through multiple aspects. These are shown in the text through various themes/issues. These themes NO SUGAR (JACK DAVIS) Jack Davis’ “No Sugar”‚ written in 1985‚ is a play that highlights Australian racism and cultural destruction caused by British colonialism. It is set in 1929 (Great Depression)
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American sugar industry lobbyists‚ and how harmful the effects are on our society. In 1998‚ the "sugar tax" cost American consumers about $1.9 billion per year‚ and between 7‚500 and 10‚000 jobs were lost from 1997 and 2003 as a result of high sugar prices. Sugar accounts for 1% of U.S. farms‚ but contributes 17% of all campaign contributions from the agricultural sector. This demonstrates the sugar industry’s power in lobbying. The U.S. sugar program encourages American farmers to plant sugar instead
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2012 Final Assignment : Sugar-Sweetened Beverages The article “A Randomized Trial of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Adolescent Body Weight”(2012) aims at examining the causal relationship between the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity among adolescents. The research for this article is a follow up of a previous pilot study that has been conducted on a period of six months involving normal weight‚ overweight‚ and obese adolescents who consumed sugar sweetened beverages regularly
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When sugar became the major crop produced my plantation owners in the 18th century‚ many slaves were needed to produce the commodity. It was a labourious and strenuous job due to the conditions. African slaves were imported to the Caribbean from the western coast of Africa. Some slaves though didn’t all work on the sugar plantation; some were exported to countries such as Honduras. In the paragraphs to follow‚ the differences between the slave labour and the way of life of slaves on the mahogany
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It is generally accepted that elderly people fare best when care is provided in their own homes. However‚ some conditions require more intensive management than can be provided in the community. The admission of elderly patients to hospital‚ their treatment and subsequent discharge can prove challenging. Whilst self-sufficiency depends a lot on the underlying condition‚ delivering a package of care to an acceptable standard can make the difference between an individual who is a self-sufficient functioning
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The Sugar trade. Oh the wonderful sweetness of money and sugar. What drove this so called sugar trade‚ you ask? Consumer demand‚ return on investment‚ and slavery were all very important aspects to the making of the historic events in which were the sugar trade. Consumer demand is the product of the addicting compounds which make up sugar‚ adding it to about everything sugar gradually became a very important aspect in the 1500’s normal lifestyle. Return on investment is when you put money into
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