The average human consumes between 150 to 170 pounds of refined added sugar in one year. Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that provides calories for your body to use as energy. Naturally occurring sugar is sugar found in whole, unprocessed foods such as milk, fruits, vegetables and some grains. Added sugar however is the sugar that is added to processed foods and drinks while being made, making it very unhealthy. According to U.S. News, sugar sweetened beverages are the largest source of added sugar in the American diet, with approximately 9 billion cases of sugary drinks sold last year alone. The importance of this project is to better equip ourselves with the knowledge of what human bodies unknowingly consume. It’s important to know the amount of sugar that people intake to be aware of hazardous health conditions that may intrude their bodies.
As the sugar processes in the body it divides into two separate parts, fructose and glucose. Fructose, found in smaller foods, suggests that a body is designed to take fructose in much smaller quantities. Glucose is used for immediate energy or it is stored away for future purposes. These elements make their way to the liver, but there’s a problem. The liver does not have a system to deal with the fructose therefore, it cannot stay in the blood stream causing the fructose is changed into fat, knows as
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When doing preliminary research, we discovered that a heart rate spikes when high blood sugar interferes with the proper blood vessel function. Now it was time to put that theory to the test. After ingesting the soda, the test subjects were tested every five minutes to check their heart rate. It was discovered that the test subjects heart rates sky rocketed in the short span of five minutes. Each test subject noticeably had heavier breathing patterns, yet their temperature did not