...the ingredient before they buy products and they usually choose artificial sweeteners over natural sugar. They think artificial sweeteners will not add extra calories to the body and help them to control their weight. However, many health experts doubt the safety of artificial sweeteners after doing research about it. They have discovered several dangerous elements in artificial sweeteners. This paper reports the types of common artificial sweeteners, the reason why they are harmful, their bad influences on the body, and why they are not helpful to control our weight. The first artificial sweetener, saccharin, was discovered in 1879 in America. In the beginning, artificial sweetener was only used by diabetics who couldn’t absorb too much natural sugar (de la Pena, 2010). Since 1980, people have started to use chemical sweeteners to control their weight and improve their health. Suddenly, artificial sweetener products became very popular in the United States (de la Pena, 2010). Millions of Americans use chemical sweeteners instead of natural sugar in order to enhance their health. However, it does not mean that chemical sweeteners are health foods. Actually, they are not. They are not like vitamins, whole grains, or proteins that can contribute to our health (de la Pena, 2010). In fact, investigators found many potential dangers of using artificial sweetener. Sucralose is one kind of chemical sweetener that is used most extensively in the marketing of products such...
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...11, 2013 The Truth about Sweeteners When you go to the store do you ever notice that all of these sweet foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar and zero calories? And if all these foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar in them, then why are our obesity numbers in this country continuing to rise? The American Heart Association says in their 2013 Statistical Fact Sheet that 23.9 million children ranging the ages of 2 to 19 are either overweight or obese, 154.7 million adults (ages 20+) are overweight or obese. (American Heart Association) Everybody knows that if you eat too much sugar or too many processed foods and don’t get enough exercise the result is weight gain. But in a society that is next to obsessed with weight loss and trying to find the quickest way to get rid of the weight and to keep it off without truly changing the look or taste of the food we have had to become creative with what we are now including in food. For a food to be sweet but not contain any sugar or calories, it needs to contain a type of sweetener, typically an artificial sweetener or a sugar substitute. There are many sugar substitutes on the market right now, and even though they help lower the amount of calories and eliminate the sugar, those sweeteners will actually have a negative effect on your body and your children’s body so much so that you’re better off consuming the calories and sugar by using either the real thing or a natural sweetener. Sweeteners are in almost every food...
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...11, 2013 The Truth about Sweeteners When you go to the store do you ever notice that all of these sweet foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar and zero calories? And if all these foods and drinks are claiming to have no sugar in them, then why are our obesity numbers in this country continuing to rise? The American Heart Association says in their 2013 Statistical Fact Sheet that 23.9 million children ranging the ages of 2 to 19 are either overweight or obese, 154.7 million adults (ages 20+) are overweight or obese. (American Heart Association) Everybody knows that if you eat too much sugar or too many processed foods and don’t get enough exercise the result is weight gain. But in a society that is next to obsessed with weight loss and trying to find the quickest way to get rid of the weight and to keep it off without truly changing the look or taste of the food we have had to become creative with what we are now including in food. For a food to be sweet but not contain any sugar or calories, it needs to contain a type of sweetener, typically an artificial sweetener or a sugar substitute. There are many sugar substitutes on the market right now, and even though they help lower the amount of calories and eliminate the sugar, those sweeteners will actually have a negative effect on your body and your children’s body so much so that you’re better off consuming the calories and sugar by using either the real thing or a natural sweetener. Sweeteners are in almost every food...
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...Sugar-free sweeteners and diet drinks risk factors of dementia, cancer, and many more diseases. When you have diabetes, you are not supposed to have a lot of sugar, so would having sugar save them? Diabetes messes with your blood sugar. You use insulin to control your blood sugar, and people with diabetes don’t like to use insulin, so they drink sugar-free drinks. However, there have been many signs of dementia and cancer from drinking excessive amounts of sugar-free drinks. Researchers have seen that the sugar-free sweeteners are causing different types of cancer. The FDA approves all of the artificial sweeteners before they can be used. They have realized that excessive amounts of these can damage your body on the inside. Diet soda and drinks are not nutritious and risk bad health levels. Diet soda and artificial sweeteners are very bad for your health....
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...David A If one were to look at the aisle containing sugar in a modern grocery store, there would be a plethora of artificial alternatives residing on the same shelves as sugar. These sugar alternatives are either loved or hated based on a wide variety of opinions. Obviously, the taste of sugar and the taste of artificial sugar vary. In addition, the health effects of these two are of significant interest. The main argument against real sugar is about the amount of calories it contains. Artificial sweeteners are low calorie, but some claim they have long-term health side effects, which make them not worth the hassle. Artificial sweeteners are compounds that induce the same or a comparable sweet flavor like those from sugars. Some are low-calorie because they are usually so much sweeter than sugar that only a tiny amount is needed to flavor something. Some alternative sweeteners are low-calorie because our bodies cannot metabolize them. They just pass through our digestive system without being absorbed. Fear of artificial sweeteners rose shortly after the first sweeteners were introduced in the food market. Although the Food and Drug Administration approved all of the artificial sweeteners found in local markets, they have also been known to cause cancer in lab rats. In one Purdue study, some rats that had been given both artificially sweetened liquids and regular sugar-sweetened liquids for about 10 days proceeded to eat more of a sugar-sweetened chocolate snack than...
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...this toxic substance. In fact, this very same substance is claimed to actually being healthy for you. It is hidden inside a small yellow packet, with a large label “Splenda”, the best selling artificial sweetener in America. This substance has been proven to have an extensive amount of dangerous side-effects. Not only...
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...Threats of Aspartame Article Review Aspartame is widely used through out the world. It is a product used to replace sugar in a diet. Accourding to Dr. Joseph Mercola’s October 2009 article “Artificial Sweeteners – More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined” on Mercola.com the product is very dangerous. I chose this topic as a way to prove myself right. I was hopping to find more information on why Aspartame is not bad but I was not able to. I chose this article in particular because of the in depth review of the product. The article is about the effects of Aspartame on the body but Dr. Mercola goes into the history of the product as well. Before he goes into great depth on the effects he shows the how this product came to be and the process it took to become FDA certified. According to Mercola Aspartame was found by accident. A chemist was working on some kind of chemical that would help treat Peptic Ulcer disease. The chemist realized how sweet the product was and that started the clime to creating the products for consumer use. Many test were ran on the product and most showed the negative aspects of using Aspartame. The only group Mercola mentions in the article that could find no issue with Aspartame was the Searle Company. The problem was that the Searle Company was the company trying to bring the product to market. Even the FDA found the product to be unsafe for human consumption. The FDA found flaws in Searle’s testing along with side effects such as, brain tumors in...
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...demand shift of sugar in a market economy. Furthermore, we will address supply and demand and price elasticity as well as whether our chosen commodity is a necessity or a luxury. Supply and Demand Shift There are limited explanations of why the demand and shifts in sugar vary. One of these reasons is because of the federal tariffs that are put on sugar. A tariff or tax on the import or even export increases the price and make it less in demand. No one wants to pay more for anything that we were paying less for a week ago. Also now there are a few different substitutes of sugar then using the real things. There are brands such as Equal, Splenda, and Sweet and Low. These are known as artificial sugar substitutes. These artificial sugar substitutes are sometimes found in food that we consume daily depending on our likes. Items that are, labeled as “diet” or “sugar free” use artificial sweeteners. There is “sugar free gum” and “diet soda”. These products typically have artificial sweeteners. The demand for the sugar is how much the consumers are willing to pay at diverse price points and during a certain period of time. The higher the consumer pays the less they will consume; but when the price of sugar is low the more the consumers will use. According to the December 2012 issue of American Sugarbeet Growers Association; “U.S. sugar supply for fiscal year 2012/13 will be decreased by 266,000 short tons, raw value, from last month, due to...
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...With high-calorie, high-fat, cheap food available on every street corner, it has become easy to blame food consumption for America’s obesity epidemic. However, what we choose to drink can affect our health just as much as, if not more than, our eating habits. That is why more and more people are cutting high-calorie sodas and going for little-to-no calorie, supposedly healthier options. Sure, we’re told that drinking eight glasses of water daily should be one of our health goals, but drinking only water can get a little boring. And why would a person choose to pack on the extra 155 calories from that can of Coca-Cola when she can have a can of Diet Coke and get almost the same taste for no calories? Diet sodas attempt to cut the calories that are in regular soda by developing sweeteners that don’t contain the calories of corn syrup, which is used in regular soda. Even though they do not contain calories, though, these sweeteners still do pose some potentially serious health concerns. There are many reasons people prefer soft drinks to juice or plain water. Most sodas have a taste that water can’t compare to. Some people like the light, citrusy flavors of 7Up and Sprite, while others go for a sweeter tasting soda, like Coca-Cola. They’re all carbonated, so the fizziness adds to the already-sweet flavor. But even though there are tons of different flavors, most of the non-diet soda is sweetened with the same thing: corn syrup, which is being used as a cheaper alternative to sugar...
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...Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, contends in her health.com article, “5 Steps to Quitting Artificial Sweeteners,” that artificial sweeteners actually increase cravings, and thus, addiction. In a Harvard Health Publication from Harvard Medical School entitled, “Artificial sweeteners: sugar-free, but at what cost?” former editor, Holly Strawbridge, shares several experts’ findings that “use of artificial sweeteners can make you shun healthy, filling, and highly nutritious foods while consuming more artificially flavored foods with less nutritional value. Artificial sweeteners may play another trick, too. Research suggests that they may prevent us from associating sweetness with caloric intake. As a result, we may crave more sweets, tend to choose sweet food over nutritious food, and gain weight.” These artificial sweeteners are even worse than the processed “natural” sugars. What about other highly processed foods? In a recent study published by the peer-reviewed journal, “PLOS ONE,” entitled, “Which Foods May Be Addictive? The Roles of Processing, Fat Content, and Glycemic Load,” researchers at various Universities, Erica M. Schulte, Nicole M. Avena, and Ashley N. Gearhardt found highly processed...
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...Lemonade Stand, Part 1 Develop a creative name for your lemonade stand, and then explain why a name is important when you are considering branding options. The name that I have chosen to go with for my lemonade stand is “The Lemonators”. The reason I picked this name is because it sounds like my lemonade stand is the destroyer of all lemons to make nothing less than the perfect glass of ice cold liquid gold; or as others like to call it, lemonade. I believe that my lemonade stand name is important when I am considering branding options because I believe that the name is genius. It’s catchy; there is no way that a customer that stops by for a quick quench of their thirst will forget a name like The Lemonators. Create a mission statement for your lemonade stand (Chapter 6); then explain why a mission statement is important for any company. To me a mission statement is what should help a person to keep spending their money at an establishment. Some examples of the mission statement is to help the people of the community, satisfy the consumer needs, etc. The Lemonators stand’s mission is to raise money to further research in pediatric cancers. We strive to raise money to hopefully make a change in at least one little boy or girl’s life, even if is a couple cents of profit. It makes everyone feel better about themselves that a percentage of their money went to help a little child in need of help. I believe that a mission statement is important...
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...Glycemic Index for Sweeteners The glycemic index for sweeteners is a function of three things: 1. The amount of carbohydrate present. 2. The type of carbohydrate present. 3. The presence of other substances (soluble fiber for example) that slow metabolism of carbohydrates. Glucose has a glycemic index (GI) of 100 and fructose is 25. Sucrose (Ordinary sugar) which is made up of a combination of these two has a GI of 65. The search for a low GI natural sugar based sweetener is somewhat futile as they all contain combinations of the above, or similar sugars. Although fructose has a fairly low GI , it has other harmful effects and must be considered unsafe to take in large quantities. Agave Syrup has a low GI because it is mainly fructose. Agave has been delisted and banned by theGlycemic Research Institute of Washington DC because serious side effects were observed in clinical trials. Coconut Palm Sugar contains mainly sucrose and one would expect a GI of about 65. However it scores well in the glycemic index for sweeteners list. Tests have indicated a GI of only about 35. This may be partly because of other substances in it such as soluble fiber. However, the testing was very limited. More testing may well produce a higher GI. Yacon Syrup, scores best in the Glycemic Index for Sweeteners that are sugar based. It derives it's sweetness from Fructo-oligosaccharides, a type of sugar with a very low GI. It is probably the only truly raw, organic, natural, low calorie, and...
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...The same cannot be said for artificial sweeteners. Just because something replaces sugar, if it is refined and made by man, that does not necessarily mean that it is good for you. Diane Sanfilippo is a certified nutrition consultant and author of The 21 Day Sugar Detox, which teaches you how to effectively remove sugar from your diet in just 3 weeks. She agrees with the 2010 review posted in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine that says sugar-free foods and artificial sweeteners actually promote weight gain. This is because they disturb your brain's natural taste for sweetness. They do not deliver nutrition and calories along with their sweet taste. And that is exactly why they are known to cause weight gain. Reaching for fake and artificial sweeteners can actually drive you right back to eating unhealthy, refined sugar. Replace sugar with...
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...Strategically, what must Pan-Europa do to keep from becoming the victim of a hostile takeover? What rows/categories in Exhibit 2 will become critically important in 1993? What should Pan-Europa do now that they have won the price war? Who should lead the way for Pan-Europa? Pan-Europa’s ball and chain is its debt. With a debt-to-equity ratio of 125%, the company is leveraged more than its competitors. Pan-Europa’s bankers have become unwilling to provide additional credit, which is unfavorable if conditions call for the purchase of a large block of common stock to prevent a hostile takeover. As a preventative measure, Pan-Europa must bolster shareholder confidence by continuing to pay the dividend and driving up earnings, which should drive stock price up. Showing annual revenue growth through wise capital investment is crucial in 1993. Exhibit 2 below shows the company’s flat trend in gross sales, declining net income and earnings per share. Clearly these are signs of an overleveraged organization. Investment firms are already recommending selling Pan-Europa stock, driving the market price down. Fiscal Year Ending December 31 | | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | Gross sales | 1,076 | 1,072 | 1,074 | Net income | 51 | 49 | 37 | Earnings per share | 0.75 | 0.72 | 0.54 | Dividends | 20 | 20 | 20 | Total assets | 477 | 580 | 656 | Shareholders' equity (book value) | 182 | 206 | 235 | Shareholders' equity (market value) | 453 | 400 | 229 | To remedy this situation, Pan-Europa must...
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...supplements are packed with ingredients that create the exact opposite result that people want when they go to purchase protein. With the wrong ingredients protein shakes and bars can make you feel hungry, bloated, crave sugar and completely stall your weightloss. Heres why: Dirty Protein Secret Number 1: Added Sugar Many Protein supplements are packed full of added sugar. Sugar is the number one enemy when it comes to getting into shape. When you body digests sugar your body converts sugar into fat. Sugar also creates crazy cravings, so even though you are trying to do the right thing by having a protein shake before you know it you have uncontrollable cravings for all the wrong types of food. Have a look at how many ways sugar has been sneaked into this protein supplement: Check the list of ingredients on a protein supplement and if you find any of the following ingredients you have found sugar: Corn Syrup, Glucose Syrup, Invert Syrup, treacle, fruitrim (fruit juice and brown rice syrup (sugar!) and Sugar Cane juice. Dirty Protein Secret Number 2: Craving Causing Chemicals. If your protein supplement hasn't been packed full of sugar your can be pretty sure you will find artificial sweetener in it. Artificial sweeteners are known to create cravings for sugar. Just like protein supplements packed full of sugar soon after eating them you will be craving some thing sweet, the exact opposite of what you planned in the first place by having a supplement. © Copyright 2012 Flat Tummy...
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