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Sugar Love (A not so sweet story)

#12 #23. Roby Pérez Dany Villarreal. September 3,2013. 9ºD. Sugar Love (A not so sweet story). Why we chose this article.

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Sugar Love (A not so sweet story)

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  1. #12 #23 Roby Pérez Dany Villarreal September 3,2013 9ºD Sugar Love (A not so sweet story)

  2. Why we chose this article • We chose this article because it looked very interesting and especially because we (as healthy people) want to show other people the consequences of sugar in our organisms.

  3. Sugar! • The top five foods with sugar are: soda, cupcakes, cereal, candy and syrup • The average American eats about 22.7 tsps. of sugar daily, mostly because of all the sugar processed foods contain • “Sugar was the oil of it’s day. The more you tasted, the more you wanted” • Diabetes has increased massively over the last couple of years, it when from only 4.2 million Americans (1973) being diagnosed with it to 21.1 million Americans (2010) • A lot of foods contain HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) which is even worse than regular sugar and cheaper! • Many years ago, sugar was originally used as medicine as cure for headaches, stomach flutters and that type of things

  4. Concept Webs Dany Villarreal Roby Pérez

  5. WOW (Words our Way) • Elixir: a substance held capable of prolonging life indefinitely (a “magic potion”) • Sucrose: a sweet crystalline dextrorotatory disaccharide sugar( C12H22O11)that occurs naturally in most plants and is obtained commercially • Triglycerides: An ester formed from glycerol and three fatty acid groups. Triglycerides are the main constituents of natural fats and oils

  6. TheOriginsof Sugar • 10,000 years ago in the island of New Guinea, where sugar cane was first processed, people ate it straight from the cane. • In religious ceremonies priests would sip sugar water from coconut shells, later this shells were replaced with cans of Coke. • Sugar reached Asia around 1000 B.C. • By A.D. 500 it was made into powder in India and used for medicine. • By 600 this art had spread to Persia, rulers used it lo entertain guest with plethora sweets. • By 1500 workers who surged sugar where they were considered the lowest of laborers. • In 1943 when Columbus sailed to the New World he took cane with him to plant.

  7. Bibliography • Cohen, Rich. "Sugar Love (A Not so Sweet Story)." National Geographic 13 Aug. 2013: 78-97. Zinio.com. Web. 2 Sept. 2013. <https://mx.zinio.com/www/user/library/?access=read>

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