Analysis Of The Article 'Deather By Sugar'

I grew up playing the game “Candyland”, and I dreamed of finding the golden ticket and living in Willie Wonka’s factory. I was also given a Gatorade after every sporting event I ever played in so what could be so bad about sugar? Sugar, real and artificial, can be found in almost every product we consume and although sugar is a simple carbohydrate that the body uses for energy, its impact on our body is far from simple. The consumption of sugar has been linked to a host of chronic health problems, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The addictive nature of sugar is also a significant problem that leads to the other detrimental effects listed above. Sugar has also been useful to help preserve goods, fuel fermentation, balance acidity, and add flavor to other foods. Whether it’s cereal, spaghetti sauce, or yogurt, sugar is everywhere and has become unavoidable in our daily diets. As Americans, we have become accustomed to the sweet addictive taste of sugar, and our dependence on excessive amounts of sugar in its different forms has become alarming to many health experts. In analyzing preference and dependency with sugar, I will trace the addictive nature and major risks sugar has placed on society.

This is a fact that is not only staggering, but also shocking that we’ve let this happen to the modern age what with all the technology that could perhaps help reduce this. Paragraph 3’s testimonial is in short order, the UN says that sugar is now in the same league of products as tobacco and alcohol, especially when consumed in large amount, can pose a serious health threat, however it is OK, but only if used in moderation.

In the article "How Candy Conquered America by Lauren Tarshis" and the article “This Cupcake Is Trying to Hurt You by Kristin Lewis" they both talk about candy and how it became so popular and how it is unhealthy. In the first article it says "They removed the chemical flavorings and colors. Big mistake! Loyal customers were furious. sales dropped 35 percent, and the company decided to return to the original formula." (Tarshis 25). In the second article it says "New studies have linked high-sugar diets to a host of other terrifying diseases too--Diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and stroke. Sugar may also contribute to depression, tiredness, and learning and memory issues (not so great on the day of a big test).”

Today, despite technological and scientific discoveries of the past century, we live in a country filled with mysterious sicknesses. While America continues to prosper in other ways, our health continues to decline. What has helped to cause this terrible battle? Sugar. Even though it may pack a great taste, sugar has captured and addicted us to it. Our addiction to sugar has negative consequences such as severe chronic disease and obesity. Americans need to reduce sugar consumption to prevent, cure, or limit problems of chronic disease, addiction, and obesity.

Trust me! “The sweet way to die” is not the way you want to die. Why? I know it may sound ridiculous for telling you not to die sweetly, but sweets have killed countless lives. Sweets have a high-level of sugar that people consume in their body every single day.

It’s in the food, the beverages, almost everything sweet. It has not only influenced Americans’ lifestyle, but is responsible for acute and chronic health problems that plague America as a whole. The consumption of added sugars has skyrocketed in the last few decades and has literally become a part of our lives, responsible for our deadly addiction, before you know it, you may become another suspect of this killer. In Nanci Hellmich, of USA Today, “Eating too much added sugar may be killing you”, Hellmich attributes sugar is not only causing us to become fat, but also is slowing killing us from within. Sugar is killing people because it is responsible for increasing the risk of health complications, growing prominence, and America’s obesity epidemic.

Gary Taubes argues that sugar is a killer. The major flaw of his argument is that he doesn’t have any concrete evidence that shows that sugar is indeed the killer. However, a lot of the evidence hints that sugar may be the cause of many of the catastrophic health problems. He has built a case that leads back to the 1600’s about different studies and how they have might of hinted to the dangers of sugar. He shows how places like Southeast Asia who once lived off a lot of reined grains had a low level of obesity and health problems, but once they adopted a Western diet those rates increased. Sugar may not be the only possibility this happened, but it has a lot of potential to be. Another key point to this whole argument is how a lot of studies

Sugar is, and has always been, unavoidable; conversely, sugar has not always been toxic. Naturally abundant and technically enhanced, this substance has followed in the footsteps of tobacco and alcohol, becoming just as unhealthy and ultimately lethal. And, without the implementation of government

Most people are quick to blame Americans waistlines bigger on sugar. But until now, people didn’t realize that sugar increases your rate of getting heart decease. Scientist where recently paid to too research the dangers of fat while not eating sugar. They did that to make people diet for the years to come. Fat and sugar is the leading cause of heart decease.

It is not that if you eat sugar once in a while as a treat, you are going to drop dead, but if you decide it is going to be a good idea to eat a dessert every day in very large amounts, you are probably going to end up dead before you know.

Your parents may tell you don’t eat too much sugar. Actually your parents are right. I know you don’t want to listen to them but you should. Sugar will most definitely hurt you in some way. Sugar is a good thing when you don’t take advantage of it like eating a whole candy bar in two minutes. In this essay you will learn how sugar could help in death later on.

Sugar is one of the leading factors in health problems. Sugar is a natural sweetener that everyone craves.Sugar can break down and cause problems to people's teeth,joints,your dopamine levels,skin,liver,heart,pancreas,kidney, and body weight. That is a long list of things in our body that we need to make sure are healthy. Humans can easily ruin our body with a sweet thing called sugar.

Sugar is sweet and addictive, and yet all we want to do is eat it all up, right? Well that’s the problem, where consuming so much sugar these days, that it's killing us. Sugar is everywhere; it’s in all the usual aspects, although you might not realize that it’s in a lot of other foods. For Example: Peanut Butter, Lunchmeat, Bread, Fish Sticks, and Salad dressing etc. It is proven that our daily intake is up to 95 grams, it may not seem like much at first, but it adds up to 77 pounds of added sugar every year. It’s a wonder why 1 in 3 adults, and 1 in 5 kids are obese. Its not just because sugar tastes good its also addictive, consuming it and even thinking about it. It causes a euphoric effect that triggers the production of Dopamine in your brain, under a transmitter that controls pleasure and is responsible for reward motivated behavior.

fructose and trans fats. Foods like these are really bad for you and can really harm

Advertisement and commercial industries portray table sugar, and other artificial sweeteners as fuel needed by the body. Though body and body cells need sugar as fuel source. The body mechanism is just like the case of engine, there are bad fuels which can destroy engine. Table sugar is just a bad fuel for the body. Several research studies have arraigned sugar first culprit for the epidemics of complicated health problems such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease and cancer. Worst of it, several research now ranking sugar as addictive substance as drugs.