AOW #16: Eating too much added sugar may be killing you

This weeks article of the week is about how eating too much added sugars in food could be killing people. We all know that all the bad sweets we love to eat is bad for us. Sodas, cakes, cookies, and any kind of candy you eat has so much unhealthy added sugars in it. People do not realize that when they go to the doctor most causes of diabetes, high blood pressure, and most commonly obesity is caused from eating too much of added sugars that's in food. It would not hurt for people in the United States to stay on a healthy diet and actually replace all these sweets with fruits and vegetables.

I can honestly see why obesity is so bad in the United States, just one can of the regular can of soda contains over 140 calories of added sugars. That is insane, imagine how many cans a soda a day just one person drinks? All Americans diets consist of anymore is sugar-sweetened foods like ice creams, cakes, candies, etc.. I think it all starts in their early childhood years because all you see is little kids walking around eating this kind of stuff anymore. I think that the companies that distribute and make this stuff should be made to make it with healthier alternatives besides all those added sugars.

Most people’s daily 2,000 calorie diet is taken up from all the added sugars, over 300 calories a day is just from added sugars in our food. If people would just learn to eat healthy, it would help get rid of all these unwanted added sugars in their body. As stated in the USA Today’s article “People who consumed seven or more servings a week of sugar-sweetened beverages were 29% higher risk of death from heart disease than those who consumed one serving or less”(Hellmich 2). I honestly believe it, when people are consuming all those added sugars and fattening foods they are taking away from their nutrients in their body. They have a higher risk of getting blocked arteries in their hearts from all these added sugars which will cause problems with your heart like heart disease. Eating unhealthy has become such a problem, not many people follow proper diets in this world anymore.

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