The average child spends six and a half hours a day at school, eight hours sleeping, a few hours of bus time, and an hour to get ready in the morning. This leaves children approximately four hours of time awake at home. So children are spending more time at school than home during the five day school week. With that in mind one would hope schools are providing a nutritionally, as well as educationally, sound environment for children to develop. Unfortunately, as long soft drinks are in schools
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Diet Soda, Good or Bad? Edward Muna COMM/215 August 22, 2011 Mary Ann Troy Diet Soda, Good or Bad? Would you like some water? No thanks, what do you have that is diet? One of the easiest ways to lose weight and control calories is by switching to something diet. On average, a normal soda pop runs roughly around 150 to 200 calories per can, and that depends on the size. Remember the movie, “Supersize Me”. So you decided a long time ago to go with artificial sweeteners and after a while
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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
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Who is to blame for all the fast food restaurants that nearly everybody criticizes, yet makes millions and millions of dollars every year? Why is America considered one of the laziest countries in the world? It is not fair to point a finger at the soda and candy industries, the fast food restaurants, or the grocery stores because they are not the ones at fault. The United States is a free country. Living in this free country, we are allowed to pick and choose what restaurants we eat at, what we
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Soda and vinegar, have you ever thought of what it does to teeth. Soda gives cavities and vinegar gives your teeth erosion, but what happens when our teeth aren't clean every day. Soda and vinegar are both very strong compared to the enamel on are teeth. When drinking vinegar and soda, are teeth will start to erode and get cavities. What does soda and vinegar do to are teeth. Soda is dangerous to teeth because every sip is destroying the enamel on the teeth. The acid from the mouth mixes with the
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Russ Lloyd and “Banning Large Sodas is Legal and Smart” by Lawrence O. Gostin, they examine the growing problem of sugary drinks in the United States. People and children are ingesting more sugar than ever. Sugar is in everything we eat, a lot of sugar in some drinks, and people are just eating way too much of it now. Some people say that the sugary beverages they are drinking aren’t all that bad; however, I believe that sugary drinks are terrible because it is bad for your health, addictive, and
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in which you include the following: Explain some of the health risks associated with obesity. “Premature Death, Obese individuals have a 50 to 100 percent increased risk of death from all causes compared with people of normal weight. Among 25- to 35-year-olds, severe obesity increases the risk of death by a factor of 12.” Heart attack, Incidence of all forms of heart disease is increased among overweight and obese people. Identify and describe three new fitness habits that you could reasonably
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While it is true that anything done in excess can certainly be unhealthy for you, the same can be said about diet soda or any diet soft drink that uses artificial sweeteners. Diet soda is very popular amongst dieters everywhere who watch their calorie intake. Although diet soda is free of calories, it is certainly not free of health side effects. The three major side effects of drinking two or more diet sodas per-day, include Kidney damage, weight gain, and enamel tooth damage. According to Earth
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Assignment Brittney Preece RES/320 Gretchen Oltman 9/30/2013 I reviewed an article title “Health effects of soda drinking in adolescent girls in the United Arab Emirates.” (Mahmood, Saleh, Al-Alawi, &Ahmed, 2008). As the title suggests, this research study focuses on the effects of soda drinking. I chose the article because of its highly detailed and informative title. This seems to be a great indication of the potential quality of the research. The
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teeth or you can’t pick up hot chicks anymore. So what causes teeth to stain? The temperature causes teeth to expand or contract making it easier for stains. So hot and cold drinks affect that. Color in foods and beverages come from chromogens. Chromogens are intensely pigmented compounds that stick to teeth enamel. Chromogens cause a lot of trouble when they mix and react with other stain causing and stain promoting factors. Tannis may be natural or synthetic tannis is another
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