Well, he also shows that the GI rating of a Mars bar is 68, in other words when it comes to sugar content and effects upon blood sugar levels, eating wheat bread and shredded wheat is comparible to eating a Mars bar! A Snickers bar's GI rating is only 41, “far better than whole grain bread” as he says in the book. And get this, the GI rating of pure table sugar is 59. Allow me to repeat myself; table sugar 59, wheat bread 72. Think about that for a second, ok? Early on in the book the author makes
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Add less sugar to your diet B When you hear sugar, you go “MMMMMMMMMMMM!”. However, sugar can do serious damage to your body. In this paragraph, I am trying to convince you that there should be less added sugar in your diet. Added sugar means sugar that is added to your food to make it taste better. An example is white sugar that you put in your applesauce to make it sweeter. Sugar that is in the apples by nature is called natural sugar. This is great to eat! Less added sugar in your diet is
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Agave may be one of the most popular natural sweeteners today, but its rise in popularity in the U.S. didn’t begin until around 2003. Now it’s commonly used as an alternative to sugar, honey, or maple syrup for cooking, baking, and sweetening everything from coffee to oatmeal. Agave nectar (or syrup) is produced from the agave plant – the same plant used to make tequila. It tastes similar to honey with a hint of molasses and is manufactured by extracting the juice from the plant’s core, which is
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Nutrition – Carbohydrate – Carbs Carbohydrate is arguably the most important source of energy for athletes. No matter what sport you play, carbs provide the energy that fuels muscle contractions. Once eaten, carbohydrates breakdown into smaller sugars (glucose, fructose and galactose) that get absorbed and used as energy. Any glucose not needed right away gets stored in the muscles and the liver in the form of glycogen. Once these glycogen stores are filled up, any extra gets stored as fat. Glycogen
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and your daughter has pounds of candy from Halloween trick or treating. Sugar is everywhere. It is a celebration, it is a festivity, it is a love. It is also a hazard. In a recent study we showed that sugar, perhaps more than salt is a vast contributor to the development of cardiovascular disease. The evidence is growing too, in New York Times Sugar Season Article written by James J. Dinicolantonio he says “Abundant sugar intake is leading to fatty liver disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes,
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and effective solutions to major problems of the over usage of high fructose corn syrup. Introduction Today, it is inevitable to face negative effects of high fructose corn syrup because high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has replaced cane and beet sugar in processed foods and soft drinks over the past 25 years. When you read the food labels in your kitchen you’ll find that we now consume HFCS in all kinds of processed foods, not just desserts and drinks also in breads, cereals, ketchup and yogurt
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paper states that sugar is an addiction and that when people stop consuming it at the rate they are used to, their bodies go through withdraw. This article is trying to inform us about the effects sugar has on our bodies and to persuade us that sugar can have the same effects that a drug can have. This article pointed out many good facts that I found very interesting. I agreed with many parts of the article. The point that I agreed with the most was when the article stated that sugar is an addiction
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Diseases Come From Eating Too Much Sugar? Last Updated: Oct 14, 2013 | By Linda Tarr Kent Sugar-sweetened beverages and processed foods add to sugar consumption.Photo Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News/Getty Images Eating too much sugar raises your risk for gaining weight and the health problems that are associated with being overweight. You are more likely to suffer diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and many other health conditions when you indulge your sweet tooth too
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Tagline “You can imitate it, but you can’t duplicate it!” History The business started on year 1980’s, from The Owner’s grandmother who made a product called “Peanuchoco Balls” she’s been selling this product for 15 years started selling it at her own store, due to economic changes the “Peanuchoco Balls” wasn’t popular to customers eyes and tastes at her generation, but as time goes by, The Company Owner once again tried to revive his deceased grandmother product on year 2002, due to his partnership
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abundant forms are sugars, fibers, and starches. The basic building block of every carbohydrate is a sugar molecule, a simple union of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Starches and fibers are essentially chains of sugar molecules. Some contain hundreds of sugars. Some chains are straight, others branch wildly. Carbohydrates were once grouped into two main categories. Simple carbohydrates included sugars such as fruit sugar (fructose), corn or grape sugar (dextrose or glucose), and table sugar (sucrose). Complex
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