Sugar Love (A Not So Sweet Story), National Geographic ...



Questions for Sugar Love (a not so sweet story) by Rich Cohen, National Geographic, Aug 2013

Directions: Read through the article carefully and answer all questions in your journals.

1. Construct a timeline to explain the history of sugar starting from New Guinea and to the New World.

2. Using information from page 84, explain how fructose is processed differently by your body than glucose (the main sugar your body uses).

3. Analyze the increase in diabetes type 2 from 1973-2010 by incorporating both the diabetes graph as well as the calories from added sugar graph.

4. From the sugar found in one can of cola, how many apples contain that same amount of sugar? Cups of rice? Ears of corn?

5. What is the connection between colonization of tropical lands, slavery, and the sugar trade? Can you think of another worldwide demand that leads to human rights violations still to this day? (Think “bling”!)

6. Just how much sugar (in lbs.) does the average American consume per year?

7. What evidence does Dr. Johnson from CU cite as proof that sugar is to blame for an increase in obesity and overall health problems?

8. How does the way your body metabolizes high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) affect your liver and pancreas?

9. When scientist mistakenly blamed cholesterol and fat for America’s problems, what impact did it have on our consumption of sugar as well as how “low fat” foods are flavored?

10. Is it fair to compare our craving for sugar as being an addiction, much like heroin or cocaine? Why or why not?

11. How does our evolutionary past explain why fruit sugar (fructose) is processed into fat so quickly?

Questions for Sugar Love (a not so sweet story) by Rich Cohen, National Geographic, Aug 2013

Directions: Read through the article carefully and answer all questions in your journals.

1. Construct a timeline to explain the history of sugar starting from New Guinea and to the New World.

2. Using information from page 84, explain how fructose is processed differently by your body than glucose (the main sugar your body uses).

3. Analyze the increase in diabetes type 2 from 1973-2010 by incorporating both the diabetes graph as well as the calories from added sugar graph.

4. From the sugar found in one can of cola, how many apples contain that same amount of sugar? Cups of rice? Ears of corn?

5. What is the connection between colonization of tropical lands, slavery, and the sugar trade? Can you think of another worldwide demand that leads to human rights violations still to this day? (Think “bling”!)

6. Just how much sugar (in lbs.) does the average American consume per year?

7. What evidence does Dr. Johnson from CU cite as proof that sugar is to blame for an increase in obesity and overall health problems?

8. How does the way your body metabolizes high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) affect your liver and pancreas?

9. When scientist mistakenly blamed cholesterol and fat for America’s problems, what impact did it have on our consumption of sugar as well as how “low fat” foods are flavored?

10. Is it fair to compare our craving for sugar as being an addiction, much like heroin or cocaine? Why or why not?

11. How does our evolutionary past explain why fruit sugar (fructose) is processed into fat so quickly?

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