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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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    Place of Sugar in Modern History‚ Sydney Mintz aimed to prove that sugar consumption is an effective way to understand the economic‚ social‚ and political underscoring of an era. He followed the history of sugar from its initial cultivation in New Guinea and its gradual spread westward to India‚ the Middle East‚ the Mediterranean‚ and the Caribbean. In each place (and period)‚ he described who used sugar‚ and the implications that had on the overall culture of the society. Looking at sugar over such

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    How can we increase the rate at which sugar cube be dissolve in water? Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that the hot water will dissolve the most sugar among most of our other methods. I picked the hot water because hot water molecules tend to move very fast. which increases the speed of how the molecules take away the sugar molecules which make sugar dissolve quicker inside of the hot water. Materials: 3 cups Water and hot water Spoon Sugar cubes Stop watch Mortar and pestle

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    relationship between what foods mean to those who consume it. Sidney Mintz in “Time‚ Sugar‚ and Sweeteners” investigated what foods mean to those who consume them‚ specifically focusing on the versatile substance of sugar. Over the past centuries‚ sugar and its usage have undergone vast transformation from being a costly‚ prized medicine for royalty to a commonplace staple in nearly every household. She states‚ that “sugar gradually changed from a medicine for royalty into a preservative and confectionary

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