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Lawmakers should impose restrictions on the amounts of sugar each person ingests. For one it is a matter of national security in the article “Obesity in Young Hobbles Military” the author says “Our country is now waking up to another serious health crisis that has left many military leaders concerned about the future strength of our armed forces. The crisis this time is obesity. Over the last 30 years child obesity rates in this country have tripled, due to too many high-calorie, low-nutrition foods and not enough exercise.” This means that if the tendencies of this generation continues, then the amount of able bodied people serving in the military will be severely diminished as the older generations die off. The author also states that …show more content…

The article entitled “UN Health Agency Points to 'Solid Evidence' Backing Its Call to Reduce Sugar Intake” stars that “We have solid evidence that keeping intake of free sugars to less than 10 percent of total energy intake reduces the risk of overweight, obesity and tooth decay," said, Dr. Francesco Branca, Director of WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. "Making policy changes to support this will be key if countries are to live up to their commitments to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases." This essentially means that a reduction in sugar ingestion can lead to the prevention of dangerous diseases, but governments have to play a role in the process to this reduction.“The WHO's recommendations are based on evidence showing that adults who consume less sugar have lower body weight and that increasing the amount of sugars in the diet is associated with a weight increase. It also shows that children with the highest intakes of sugar-sweetened drinks are more likely to be overweight or obese than children with a low intake of sugar-sweetened drinks.” They are basically saying the amount of sugar you ingest is proportionally related to the increase in weight which in turns lead to other health issues that were mentioned in the 60 minutes segment “Is Sugar Toxic?” by Dr. Robert

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The article, Is Sugar Toxic?, by Gary Taubes is about how sugar may be the reason why we are all unhealthy and how sugar is not good for the body. This article is similar to the book, Year Of No Sugar, because in the book Eve, the author, talks about Lustig who was someone that she listened to on youtube and the article mentions him. Mr. Lustig states, “It’s not all about the calories”(Taubes), which in Eve’s memoir she says that it is also the sugar that is making us fat. The article exclaims that health effects about sugar go back longer than one may think. Taubes says that high fructose corn syrup has been replacing regular added sugar in soft drinks and other products because refined sugar, “had the reputation as a generally noxious

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In the article it reads, “...a sugar-soaked diet can lead to metabolic syndrome and from there to diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer.” (421). By saying this the author effectively reminds us of the seriousness behind this type of dieting by listing, and naming, such malignant

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In document three it reads,”The increased consumption of sugar, and increasing demand for it, exceed all comparison with any other article, used as an auxiliary, in food: for, such is the influence of sugar, that once touching the nerves of taste no person was ever known to have the power of relinquishing the desire for it.” There was no person that could give up their sugar, it was an addiction. This is one reason why different countries wanted sugar because everyone wanted it.

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Taxing Sugar Sweetened Beverages and the Resulting Effects on Obesity Margot Sanger-Katz’s article “Yes, Soda Taxes Seem to Cut Soda Drinking” in The New York Times is an interesting, albeit brief, cross-examination of different research on the effects that the implementation of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has on obesity and weight gain in the population. It provides brief examples assimilated together in an attempt to discuss a highly important current public health event that unfortunately comes across as a sloppy journalistic interpretation of significant scientific progress in the public health field. Though poorly executed, this article does start an important conversation: should public health policies exist that limit access to certain foods, especially if one of public health’s biggest issues is the lack of access to certain nutritious foods for low-income areas? Furthermore, does this “soda tax” actually decrease the amount of soda consumption? Although it appears that the author has missed the point, Sanger-Katz provides a link to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that actually answers both of these questions magnificently and insists that though thirty-three

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In one study, overweight people expended a day by day supplement of sucrose-sweetened or misleadingly sweetened beverages or nourishments for a 10 week period. A large portion of the supplement was as sodas. People in the sucrose gathering increased 1.6 kg, and people in the fake sweetener gathering lost 1.0 kg. A two week study had members supplement their eating regimen with sugar-sweetened soda pops, misleadingly sweetened sodas, or neither. Although the members put on the most weight when devouring the sugar-sweetened beverages, a percentage of the distinctions were questionable: the contrasts between men who expended sugar-sweetened beverages or no beverages was not measurably

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Obesity has many adverse outcomes that include: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, musculoskeletal problems, respiratory problems, cancer, depression, anxiety, frailty, dementia, and mortality. More than two-thirds of Americans are currently either overweight or obese since they are eating unhealthy foods. The government regulation of what we eat and drink is fair because it can prevent obesity and put an end to poor health. To begin with, unhealthy food causes young children to become obese at a young age. The text states, "The kids living in states where schools don't sell junk food are not as overweight" (Source 2).

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