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Negative Effects of Sugary Beverages It is summertime, one of the hottest days of the season and it is like a sauna outside due to the humidity. In the refrigerator a nice cold Pepsi is just waiting to be popped open and poured into a glass of ice. The fizzy drink is simply waiting to be consumed! Wipe the sweat from the brow, sit back and unwind while savoring the cold beverage. Countless amounts of people do not realize what these sugary beverages do to our body. These sugary beverages are:…

High fructose corn syrup was first introduced in the United States, in the 1960s. Due to cheap corn prices in the 1970s, high fructose corn syrup was inexpensively made, and its use became widespread in the US food supply. By 1985, 35% of the food supply was being sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, mainly because it was cheaper to produce than glucose based sweeteners that were used previously. When high fructose corn syrup was being used in the food supply…

According to a this term life infographic, drinking soda can cause asthma from the sodium benzoate, heart disease from the high fructose levels, and kidney issues from phosphoric acid. It can also cause obesity, and “70% of cardiovascular disease is related to obesity. 30% of gallbladder disease is related to obesity.” It is clear that soda is leading to obesity, but strictly limiting…

Food is a chemical and all cooking is chemistry. It is a mixture of many different chemical components. It is one of the essential things of every living being. Worldly, interest in food science have increased in recent years because of increasing awareness of vital role of food in the health, well-being and economics status of individuals and nations people’s curiosity of trying new and different dishes. Although using chemicals in the food provides good taste and texture, sometimes adding…

since given way to the Republic of Fat. According to the Surgeon General, fat is actually a certified epidemic. The corn accounts for most of the surplus calories we eat; therefore, much of it in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. Americans, on average, consume 66 pounds of High Fructose Corn Syrup a year. Much of that is in soda. Since HFCS is cheaper than sugar corn refiners secured tariffs on imported sugarcane. Supersizing has also led to this problem, from McDonalds to a 21-ounce soda.…

The average American eats about 50 grams of this sugar each day, but this could be causing them serious health problems. High fructose corn syrup contributes to fat deposits in the liver, which increasing buildup of lipoproteins. This may cause plaque buildup and narrowing of blood vessels. Recent studies have also shown that nearly half of food tested with high fructose corn syrup contained mercury. Although the amount was small, researchers were concerned about the risk of mercury poisoning in…

conditions. The system is skewed towards unhealthy foods, which leads to obesity as well as type 2 diabetes. Nobody is stopping that as well as the corn production, Corn is in all types of food. Therefore, corn has conquered the world in a way, such high fructose corn syrup, giving the flavor and feels to our mouths that humans enjoy. Finally big corporations such as Monsanto are the ones who own the soybean crop which is to be a terminating seed, so farmers cannot replant these seeds, therefore…

observation I made post-lab was that the diet coke was less dense than regular coke. This may be due to the fact that diet coke contains aspartame sweetener instead of high fructose corn syrup, which is found in regular coke. Additionally, the amount of aspartame sweetener in diet coke is 118 milligrams, whereas coke has 41 grams of high fructose corn syrup. In conclusion, diet coke is less dense that regular coke because it…

to the assumption that there wouldn’t be any sugar. However, McDonald’s released a statement announcing that they have, “plans to remove high-fructose corn syrup from its buns and replace it with sugar, as ‘part of its drive to target increasingly health-conscious consumers,’” (motherjones.com). Motherjones.com also points out that sugar and high fructose corn syrup, chemically arent that different. And when you finally put all of the ingredients together to make the hamburger, “A Quarter…

without knowing how many calories in the food that the food truly has. Normally, sugar has more calories comparing to the same mass of food, which means eating sugar is easier to get fat. Besides, people are used to talking about the evils of high-fructose corn syrup but the new research shows that even pure cane sugar might be just bad for you. It had become an independent risk cause for not only cardiovascular diseases, but also other chronic diseases, including liver cirrhosis and dementia.…