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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Sugar cane is one of the oldest cultivated crops. Sugar along with honey are the oldest natural sweeteners. It is not known where sugar originated‚ but people thought it has first been used in the Polynesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean. The Polynesians fuggier out that the stalks of a giant grass‚ contained a sweet tasting liquid and could be used in the preparation of food‚ so sugar was taken from to India to other different countries to be grown and spread around the world. After that the counties
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consumed approximately 12 pounds per year” of refined sugar‚ as of 2006‚ we now eat and drink an astonishing 180 pounds annually (Rosen). And how can we not? Sugar is in almost everything we eat and drink and it can be hard to figure out which types of sugar are more beneficial for our health than others. For instance‚ you have natural sugars such as those found in fruits and dairy in the forms of fructose and lactose while refined sugars come from sugar cane through an extract process and is often found
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English‚ Hour 3 10 October 2013 Sugar Makes Children Hyperactive Every person has been told at least once in their life that they have “had too much sugar”. This is something that is heard often and is most likely said when one becomes a little bit too hyper for another one’s liking. As Halloween comes creeping up on us‚ we all prepare ourselves for those kids that have eaten too much sugar and have become hyper. There seems to be a rumor going around that says sugar makes children hyperactive.
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This thesis is a collection of three independent essays on the causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were appointed by upper levels of government have a stronger incentive to continue to use local patronage networks to signal their alignment to upper levels of government
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Statement #3: The difference in IQ test scores between African Americans and non-Hispanic white Americans can be attributed almost entirely to different patterns of socialization and environmental factors. The history of the race and intelligence controversy concerns and focuses on the historical enlargement of a debate‚ mainly in the United States of America‚ with the indication to potential explanations of group differences in scores on intelligence tests or IQ tests. Also the correlation between
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The Truth About Compulsory Bike Helmet Laws Reducing Injuries Tute Task 1 Scientific Thinking and Research Skills CORE 11-113 Sarah Anderson ID: 13137519 Tutorial class: Tuesday 1-3pm Word Count: 1099 The Truth About Compulsory Bike Helmet Laws Reducing Injuries WRITTEN REPORT As a child growing up in Australia one of the first birthday presents we may receive after we have learnt to walk‚ is a bicycle. Our parents would always guarantee that we would wear a helmet when we went
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This is a documentary released by BBC titled “Sugar VS Fat”‚ starred by Alexander Van Tulleken and Chris Van Tulleken. It is obvious that this is a program about the disadvantage and benefit of sugar as compared to fat. Yet‚ one should not judge the book by its cover‚ for the highlight of this documentary is the deadly combination of processed food with a ratio of 1:1 fat and sugar in it. Obesity is an anciently known problem. Over hundreds of years‚ scientists have estimated some possible cause
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diabetes and sugar. However‚ a diet high in sugar isn’t just a hazard for diabetics. The risks are greater than ever thought before. According to the University of California San Francisco‚ (https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2009/06/8187/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-fructose-sugar-diet) sugar is poison and it is driving America’s obesity problem. Of course‚ with obesity comes inflammation and chronic pain. Tooth decay and weight gain are seen as the obvious consequences of a diet high in sugar‚ but we
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Ergonomic Interventions for Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders: An Overview‚ Related Issues and Future Directions Robert Norman and Richard Wells Department of Kinesiology Faculty of Applied Health Sciences University of Waterloo Waterloo‚ ON N2L 3G1 May 1998 For the Institute for Work & Health To the Royal Commission on Workers Compensation in British Columbia Ergonomic Interventions for Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders: An Overview‚ Related Issues and Future Directions. Robert
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