The book Sugar Changed the World gives the reader a very informational tone throughout the events occurring in the story. The author's perspective and purpose for writing Sugar Changed the World is to tell a story of how sugar impacted the world negatively and positively,and they respond to conflicting viewpoints by addressing the facts and proving the historians wrong. The writer informs the reader about the positive impact of sugar and how it changed the world because in the book it said "The end of slavery was a great step for human rights”. “On August 1, 1838 all slaves would be free” (pg 104).
In Peter Macinnis’s book, Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar, he documents the history of sugar throughout world history. By exploring the book further, we can arrive at the idea that the history of sugar is “bittersweet” because of how it impacts social, economic, and political change over the course of history. To better understand the impact sugar made throughout history, we must address the summary points of Macinnis’s book. Macinnis starts by talking about how the earliest records of sugar cane can be traced back to Buddha in India (around 550 B.C.), a Persian military expedition (510 B.C.), passing through India, and the army of Alexander the Great in India (around 325 B.C.) (Macinnis 2).
In the articles, "How Candy Conquered America" and "This Cupcake Is Trying To Hurt You" by Lauren Tarshis and Kristin Lewis, it explains how candy became so popular in America, but also how to conduct away from all the sugar. First of all, you can stay away from sugar by drinking more water than soda. This indicates that drinking more water might seem small, but when you replace water when you drink soda most of the time, you won't consume that much more sugar.
People’s ideas about candy changed from the 1800s to today. According to the article “ How candy conquered America” is about 200 years ago, most people thought the candied was for medicine in early 1800’s. At that time candies was popular in Europe, but extremely expensive in America. It only had limited kinds of candies, because people make it by hand like small piece of cookie. There are also candies is mostly made by the sugar.
Humans bak then ate sugar to satisfy their hunger because the Chase Lozenges had just came out. Over time people had already spent $33.6 million dollars all because those dang sweet Lozenges. I think that is a lot of money just for Lozenges. I just hope they know that they could get diabetes from that sugarer drinking any. (My resource was from the article
When it comes to nutrition labels on food packaging, it only shows the amount of sugar in grams, never in percent. This gimmicks people into thinking that its not much sugar in the product they’re eating, because while the grams seem small, people are unaware of the actual amount of sugar placed into the product. Moving on, since the 1900s, obese rates in America have drastically increased in the 2000s. This meaning that people are starting to eat more food, with sugar they did not even know was in there. This is unfair to the people who develop diseases and illnesses, like getting obese, diabetes or cancer, because of the unknown amount of sugar placed into the food.
But candy can give you diabetes. Seriously, with the amount of candy that you consume in the few days following Halloween, you
Sugar was introduced to England during a time when citizens were struggling to stabilize their diets. “In 1650, the people of England lived on a starch centered diet” (13) and dealt with issues of hunger. The drop in the price of sugar created a shift from a starch centered diet to sugar supplying “one-fifth of the calories” (6). The increase in consumption led to increasing sugar imports and to sugar becoming a staple to the working-class diet (151). As the popular classes began to consume sugar, they found more uses for the product and incorporated it more in their diet.
A country’s choice of sweet treats is usually cultural and not all kinds of sweets are available everywhere. Some candies didn’t prove famous enough to make it from Europe to the United States, whereas some candies from the US were considered too harmful according to Europe’s exacting standards. Some sweet treats have been banned in particular parts of the world because they have been revealed to be deadly, offensive and dangerous. Let’s take a look at 10 candies that have been banned around the world.
For the most part the typical American diet consists of a lot processed foods, meats that are high in fat, refined grains and lots of sugar. This is the primary reason for the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. A lack of physical activity and exercise also plays a large role as well. The number of Americans that are susceptible to chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases is quite alarming. Two of the main sources of sugar in our diet and also happens to be a personal weakness of mine, is soda and sweets like cookies and pies.
The British have records of their historical uses of sugar; but sugar, as a raw material in the form of cane sugar, originated from New Guinea and Indonesia, which spread through the process of globalization. As a standalone substance, sugar could provide a hefty amount of calories for an individual’s dietary intake, but historically, at least by 1700, sugar has been used in a wide variety of ways, including: medicine, alcohol, preservation, and, most importantly, as a sweetener for other stimulants like tea, coffee, and chocolate. The combination of caffeine and sugar further stimulates the body physiologically, as opposed to consuming unsweetened tea or coffee. Not only was sugar used in sweetening beverages, but also with fruits in jams for bread, which became a staple of the lower- and middle-classes in 16th century England; the combination proving to be a cost- and energy-efficient (calories) meal for the working classes. This increasing use of sugar and sweets, especially in the British working class perspective, could be interpreted as individuals’ needs to have the energy, in the form of calories, to physically do work.
Introduction There are not many foods that people adore in every way, chocolate being one them. A creamy and delicious dessert, it’s not hard to understand why it’s adored by many. All though it may seems like there’s not much to know about chocolate, there’s a whole world out there about this tasty treat’s production, history and chocolate’s dark side that many of us don’t know about. Read further to uncover chocolates huge impact on society.
People that are on a diet can eat “healthy foods” but they still contain calories. I don't think they is a healthy food it just depends on the person and how they like to eat and what they are comfortable eating. But I do think the people should once in awhile try drink soda and try some candy. In Conclusion I don't think schools should ban candy and soda because it doesn't harm people.
With Europeans bringing over different types of candies from their hometown to America and different confectioners making different types of candies here in America, the spread of candy companies went on the uprise. As stated by the article “The History of Candy Timeline.” from the website Groovy Candies that candy was rare in the 1800’s and the only candy that was available was hard candies and peppermint sticks (para. 7). After the invention of Chase Oliver 's invention in mid-1800’s candy companies started becoming more common around America such as Hershey, Snickers, Baby Ruth, Milky Way, Whitman Chocolate, and Symphony Bar. Groovy Candies continues by noting that Milton Hershey was the first to create the first American chocolate in 1894 (para.
A major reason for regulating sugary drinks is to prevent non-communicable diseases among children. If children consume sugary beverages every day, they may experience symptoms such as: weight gain, poor diet and health and tooth decay in children. Meanwhile, there is less control of sugar level which leads to diabetes. Another reason for regulating sugary drinks is to reduce pollution. Literature Review Sugary drinks are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.
