Sugar Consumption In Canada

The quality of life for the average American faces many threats, one being obesity and malnourishment. Although, many Americans do not see this as a pressing threat due to the other serious issues going on around the world such as terrorism or global warming. However, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and digestive and Kidney Diseases, “Seventy percent of Americans are overweight and forty percent of children are overweight.” Many find this concerning and question the creditability of this statement. Though this may seem hard to believe, as posted on National Geographic, America’s main food group as of 2016 is sugar and fat. This disheartening statistic spotlights how the addiction to artificial, processed foods and sugar pose the biggest threat to Americans’ quality of life.

Robin Konie wrote “Let’s stop blaming fat, sugar, or any other “one” thing. Let’s get on the side of real food”. One must learn to limit the amount of sugar that they put into their body, although of course not all sugars are bad for one, nor are all fats. “More than 70% of Americans eat at least 22 teaspoons of added sugar daily.” (Richards). The majority are not aware of how much excess amount of sugar is going into their body. Sugar is addictive, and the body will crave more and more, if this generation, and the generations after are not educated, these numbers will go

Soda companies “dramatically announced that they would aim to cut the number of sugary drinks calories by twenty percent over the next ten years by reducing the portion size and trying to sell more zero-calorie and low calorie options.” By reducing the portion size, Americans could be drinking more cans, and possibly drinking more ounces than they were originally. As for the zero-calorie and low calorie options, the drinks are considered by doctors to be worst than the original because they contain artificial sweeteners that are not ‘natural sugars’, but chemically made sugars that puts an individual at greater risk of being morbidly obese by slowing their metabolisms, and is also known to elevate their blood pressure. Mexico’s soda consumption and obesity rate was once worst than the United States a few years ago, Mexico then established “a significant tax on soda and junk food.. Soda consumption in Mexico fell by a couple of percent points almost immediately.. there was almost as large increase in the sale of bottled water (not taxed).” Mexico had went ahead with its initiative to stop their nation’s problem, as for the United States, soda has become a major part of our diets. I believe that is restricting us from progressing from this aggravated problem.

Barclay’s article speaks about the triumphant effects of the tax on soda and junk food in Mexico. Mexico is one of the only few countries that have implemented this tax and so far has shown much success and promising results. In 2014, tax on soda and other sugary drink went up about 10%, one peso per liter. Researcher shows that since this increase, there has been a 6% drop in purchase of these sugary drinks. According to one study conducted by Gitanjali M. Singh et al. it was shown that 4,500 deaths per year in Mexico seemed to be caused by consumption of sugary drinks. Barclay states in her article, “Not only did people in Mexico drink fewer sodas with the tax, but they also drank more

A few months ago I watched an interesting documentary on sugar and the world’s health crisis called that sugar film. It is about an Australian man who consumed a diet of no processed sugars as his usual diet and then ate a diet that contained the average person’s amount of sugar for two months to watch the transformation of his body; however the crazy part was that he ate all foods that one may normally consider healthy but still contain the hidden sugars like low fat yogurts, juices, and granola bars. By the end of the experiment the man had all sorts of ailments like pre-diabetes and fatty liver disease which really surprised me since the foods were considered healthy. This lead me to reassess my personal diet as well as my family’s before

In North America, 2/3 of the population is overweight and ½ are obese due to high intake of sugar through consumer products. Sugar is an additive. The food industry knows this, that’s how acquire consumers to buy more. We believe sugar should be regulated because without restrictions and limitations placed on the products that contain sugar, the population in North America will soon have a higher rate of overweight and obese people.

If you are American, you ate too much sugar today, twice the daily limit, about 60 to 90 grams of added sugars. Americans consume two to three times the daily limit of added sugars, a silent, yet serious issue. Many people are confused about what added sugars are, which are unnatural sweeteners with extra calories that are added into foods and beverages, through cooking, processing, or on the table (Today’s Dietitian Magazine). From October 2011 to December 2012, ChooseHealthLA ran a marketing campaign to combat excess consumption of sugar sweetened beverages in America with more effectiveness compared to other similar campaigns, “resulting in more than 515 million impressions” throughout “mass media, billboards, buses, and railways” (Barragan).

“Dieting.” With the amount of unhealthy food around us, we tend to go against our healthy eating rules. When we twist our rules, we end up being the prey of bad diets unknowingly. Did you know that 50 million Americans eat fast food every day! That is the entire population of Canada! Fast food tricks us into thinking that it’s better for us than fresh and healthy foods. Many Canadians know the damages of unhealthy foods but deny all that might happen to them. Due to that stubbornness, over 12,000 people go to hospitals because of adult-onset diabetes. If we don't change the way we eat, we will gain more chances of high cholesterol,

The time has come that we address the problem of over consumption of sugar efficiently. Not just one person or one state has to address this the whole of Australia has to along with the entire world. No one realises what this poison is slowly doing to us. The over consumption of sugar is on the rise and no one will notice until it’s too late. According to Robert Lustig and Gary Taubes, Mark Bittman these three argue that sugar poses far greater dangers than rotted teeth and cavities, Sugar is a toxin that harms our organs and disrupts the human normal bodily functions. Over consumption of sugar is one of the primary causes of obesity and diabetes. More than one-third of American adults and approximately 12.5 million children and adolescents

The government hopes to raise the prices to see if the consumers will make better choices when buying a drink. Sugary drinks are the single biggest source of “added” sugars in our diet today, that is, sugar that does not occur naturally in foods. All of our favorite drinks: orange juice, pop, and sweet tea have very little, if any, healthy ingredients in them and now there is strong evidence that these drinks are linked to weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. Drinking soft drinks increases your likelihood of getting type 2 diabetes and having a heart attack. Risks are even greater in young adults and Asians. One way to reduce soft drink intake is to say no as a

A balanced healthy diet contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required to maintain energy, strength and a healthy immune system. It has rich nutritional values that lead to a healthy lifestyle without any developmental problems and risks of obesity. Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or over an individual’s ideal body weight (TheFreeDictionary.com, 2016). This increases the risk of diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Obesity is proven to cause 35 million deaths each year globally. According to Sharon Labi (Bodyandsoul.com.au, 2016), an average Australian consumes 41.79kg of sugar a year. As such, it holds blame as the primary reason for obesity.

Americans are obsessed with the idea of losing weight. The health and fitness industry in the United States is a billion dollar industry. If this is the truth, then why is our country the most obese country in North America? The reason is that we underestimate how poor diet affects both our physical appearance and our health. It seems as though every year, a new fad diet sweeps across the country. There’s the low fat-high carb diet, the high fat-high protein diet and many more that we hear about. However, we do not seem to address the root of our food issues: sugar. People need to understand that sugar addiction is a real epidemic and the United States government needs to step in to regulate the sugar and additives that are so accessible

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years (CDC). It is estimated that, on our current track, in about 50 years 1 out of 2 Americans will develop diabetes. These are startling facts, and it gets even weirder when you look into the causes for this sudden change. Since the 1980s, the amount of added sugar in our diets has increased exponentially. In fact, these days, around 90% of the food products in our grocery stores contain added sugar. Why? This is partially due to the diet/low-fat craze that started in the 1980s. Food companies cut down the amount of fat in their products, but

When I completed my evaluation of the sugar free diet I recommended that reducing the amount of added sugar regularly consumed within a standard diet was a good idea. While the links between overconsumption of sugar and poor health is still so what controversial, there is an increasing amount of evidence that links added sugar to a range of sever health conditions such as cardiovascular disease. The exact link between added sugar in the diet and heart damage is unclear, however, the chances of dying from heart cardiovascular increase with the percentage of sugar in the diet independent of other health factors (Croliss, 2015, Johnson, et al. 2009). Although the connection between added sugar and poor health may not be clear the amount of research that indicates some connection is enough for me to maintain my

Most of the American adults and children have the addiction of craving sweets, either if it is a treat or drink. The sweet drinks that are mostly consumed are soda and are affordable, a man-made package full of sugar. Even though the drinks are affordable, sugar can lead to lifelong health problems like diabetes and obesity. With diabetes, excessive sugar consumption lowers the metabolism, and then it becomes an addiction to create obesity. Sugary consumption benefits the company that makes the sugary goods, yet the people with addiction of sugary goods lose their health and have diabetes and/or