Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Sugar, Or No Sugar? That Is The Question.

A Few Facts To Start With

The average person eats more than his body weight in sugar each year.
Sugar is known to create drug like addictions.
Did you know that the average 20oz soda contains about 16 packets of sugar?
Sugar leads to type II diabetes, and cancers?
Other names for sugar:barley malt, beet sugar, brown sugar, buttered syrup, cane-juice crystals, cane sugar ,caramel, carob syrup, corn syrup, corn-syrup solids, date sugar, dextran, dextrose, diastase,diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, evaporated cane juice, fructose, fruit juice, fruit-juice concentrate, glucose, glucose solids, golden sugar, golden syrup, grape sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose malt syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, molasses, raw sugar, refiner's syrup, sorbitol, sorghum syrup, sucrose, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar. got sugar?
America has increased it's sugar consumption more than 500% since 1950
Finally did you know that you are the source of death threats disguised as soda advertisements?

Sugar The Harmful Effects!

Sugar is one of the leading causes of obesity.

Sugar turns to almost five times as much fat as a regular starch in the human body. Fat is the leading cause of death in the United States. Too much body fat leads to Heart failure, emphysema, and many other diseases. Fructose, a type of sugar, is known to cause the early onset of type II diabetes. It kills 3.2 million people a year. Obesity is so prevalent that we even have many stores dedicated to providing supersize caskets.

6 comments:

  1. Hey Quint! nice blog post! Um...I want you to know...I SWEAR I have never copied anything off your blog. I saw your "sugar or no sugar, that is the question" and I couldn't believe it. Mine says "To believe or not to believe, that is the question" I was like, ok this is crazy, so I checked what time we did our posts and I did mine after yours!! so...anyway, sorry about that. I might change it later, but I promise I didn't steal it lol. :)

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  2. Quint that was sort of depressing, the part about the caskets?!! haha but very well written, good job :)

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  3. You could be a trivia collector for Jeopardy or something based on this post haha they're all pretty interesting facts. You were brutally honest about the bad effects sugar has on your body, like Alyssa mentioned about the casket remark. :p It's a good, to the point post though; I liked it :)

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  4. So I kind of got a little depressed reading your blog...haha! Great information though! The video really makes you think! :)

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  5. Your post was very honest which is good. It was also a good length. The casket thing was quite interesting...lol Overall good job!

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