“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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consumes 150 to 170 pounds of sugar per year. Sugar is a sweet‚ crystalline substance that is used as a sweetener for everyday food and drinks‚ making it very prominent in the average person’s diet. It is an unavoidable carbohydrate to say the least‚ it is even in lettuce‚ however‚ it is reasonable to limit the amount of sugar one indulges in. This impacts adults and teens by draining people’s lives and making people frightened to consume sugar. Consuming too much sugar undoubtedly has a negative
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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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How Sugar Affects the Body in Motion By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Gary John Norman/Getty Images Sugar is getting a bad reputation. A cover article in The New York Times Magazine several weeks ago persuasively reported that our national overindulgence in fructose and other sugars is driving the epidemics of obesity‚ diabetes and other illnesses. But that much-discussed article‚ by the writer Gary Taubes‚ focused on how sugars like fructose affect the body in general. It had little opportunity to examine
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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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and Sugar - The Chemistry must be right Jansen‚ C. Gymnasium Felisenum‚ The Netherlands 14-04-2010 Summary Yeast can metabolize sugar in two ways‚ aerobically‚ with the aid of oxygen‚ or anaerobically‚ without oxygen. In this experiment yeast ferment sugars anaerobically. When yeast ferments the sugars anaerobically‚ however‚ CO2 production will cause a change in the weight of the sugar/yeast-solution. This raises a further question: What is the effect of different kinds of sugars on the
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Determining the sugar concentration of food samples is very important especially in industries where quality control is monitored. One method to determine the sugar concentration of reducing sugars is by heating with 3‚5 dinitrosalicylic acid(DNS) which produce a red-brown product Miller(1959)The reaction is direct‚thus the method is preferred over the Benedict’s test method. The concentration of the coloured complex can be determined with the spectrophotometer at Absorbance 540.The sugar concentration
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containing refined sugar and MSG. While this is not extremely detrimental to your body‚ when consumed in large amounts over a prolonged period of time it can be disadvantageous. Studies have shown that if an individual were to eat an unbalanced diet with too much refined sugar they are more likely to gain weight and experience lethargy than those who eat a balanced and healthy diet. If you are experiencing the symptoms of a sugary diet then it is highly recommended you undergo a sugar detox diet. This
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