Eating Sugar It has always been easy to judge other people before you know them – much easier than it is to open up to a complete stranger. Every day we judge other people by the way they look, and especially people with different backgrounds than ourselves. But isn’t it wrong to make first-hand impressions before you know the person? It might turn out that it is a nice person with a great personality hidden under a different appearance. The short story Eating Sugar, written by Catherine Merriman
Words: 1376 - Pages: 6
Eating sugar Try to imagine how you will react if a stranger starts talking to you at the supermarket. He could maybe ask you about something personal, like about your school or what you do for a living? In western we don´t usually go talking to a random person we don´t know, we stay to those people we know because we maybe are afraid. But what if he or she is a very nice person there just wants to have a nice conversation? He or she have maybe just moved to the town and tries to get some new
Words: 823 - Pages: 4
Eating Sugar - by Catherine Merriman (2001) Catherine Merriman has written the story Eating Sugar, which is about the couple Eileen and Alex and their twenty-one-year old daughter, Suzanne. Suzanne works as an English teacher in Thailand, and now her parents have come to visit her and join her in her week off work. It is obvious though, that none of the parents are very happy about Thailand. It says so in line 21, where Alex describes the vacation as ‘forced on them’. The three of them are on a
Words: 1235 - Pages: 5
ENG 102, Section E2 4/16/2015 Eating too much sugar causes diabetes Can eating too much sugar cause diabetes? Diabetes is a medical condition where there is too much sugar circulating in the bloodstream. The main sugar found in the body is glucose, and it’s essential for good health. Glucose is the main source of energy in the body. Blood glucose is regulated by a hormone called insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Insulin deficiency whether complete or partial is the basic mechanism
Words: 700 - Pages: 3
Sugar-Free for Mind and Body Eating well is becoming more and more popular. Finally people are beginning to realize that the secret to longevity is a healthy diet. The body must have the nutrients it needs to function effectively, for the energy you need, and to build and sustain a healthy body. Because of that one of the most important things that you can do is eliminate sugar from your diet. That may sound like pure torture – especially if sugar is a primary component of your diet. Refined
Words: 1202 - Pages: 5
cotton fields and flatlands rolling to the river, its Victorian mansions still beautiful, is at the center of a colossal American health crisis. High rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease: the legacy, some experts say, of sugar, a crop that brought the ancestors of most Clarksdale residents to this hemisphere in chains. “We knew we had to do something,” Kirkpatrick principal SuzAnne Walton told me. Walton, Clarksdale born and bred, was leading me through the school, discussing
Words: 3453 - Pages: 14
would normally, then after those three days we had to try to cut back on our added sugar intake, sleep longer, and increase our daily activity. Everyday we wrote down what foods we ate, how much added sugar we estimated was in them, how much sleep we got, and how much physical activity we did. We also wrote down our moods, productivity, and overall well being for that day. For the first three days my average added sugar intake was: about 27 grams. I wasn’t very health conscious , I would eat whatever
Words: 1031 - Pages: 5
POWERPOINT Sugars- Many people think of rice, potatoes and pasta as 'carbs' but that's only a few examples of the huge range of foods that contain carbohydrates. All fruit and vegetables, all breads and grain (cereals) products, sugar and sugary foods contain carbohydrates. Choosing the healthier carbohydrates is common sense. Fresh fruit and veggies, wholegrain breads, wholegrain cereals and pastas are all healthy foods and form part of a healthy eating pattern. Carbohydrates are made
Words: 290 - Pages: 2
Carbohydrate is a term used to describe food composed of sugar molecules. Carbohydrates are sugars, the two main forms are simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates, also referred to as sugars and starches. One of the main differences between the two is how quickly they can be digested and absorbed. They are one of the body’s main sources of energy as carbohydrates are broken down into glucose quickly. It has a more pronounced effect on blood sugar levels than fats or proteins. Foods rich in carbohydrates
Words: 2406 - Pages: 10
seasoned with Salt and Pepper. Work on the sugar Plantation now started, this is where the majority of the Slaves worked. It continued till 12:00 and was a very tiring time. The sugar cane can range from a height of 4 feet to 12 feet or more. Knives were used to cut the stems of the cane and then were at the end of the day, carried to a sugar mill. Here a different set of workers would squeeze the sugar cane to get the precious juice that is used to create sugar. This was a very important job so the smallest
Words: 401 - Pages: 2
