effects of sugar speech
Informative Speech
Specific Purpose: To educate my audience on sugar and its effects on the body.
Central Idea: Many sugars have detrimental effects on our body and it is important that we pay closer attention to avoiding these foods.
Intro:
I. Did you know that the average American consumes around 130 pounds of sugar per year? I’m going to assume that you are surprised by this fact, as you should be, because this is way above the amounts that we should be consuming.
II. Sugar is all around us in many different forms and, more often than not, we don’t even know we are eating it. Today I am going to tell you all about sugar by describing what it really is, the main forms it exists in, its effects on the body, and how we can avoid it.
Body:
I. Sugar is the simple name for the sweet, short-chained, simple carbohydrate used in foods. Sugar is broken down into two categories; simple monosaccharides such as glucose, fructose, and galactose, and complex disaccharides such as sucrose, maltose, and lactose.
a. Sugar is a very calorie dense food with no nutritional value. Not all calories act the same way, calories from sugar are more fattening than any other calorie. A study done by Mind, Body, Green concluded that “In the American diet added sugar alone accounts for 496 calories per day”.
b. A major problem in the food industry is that sugars are hidden in almost all of our foods and we don’t even realize we are eating them. Hidden names for sugar include High Fructose Corn Syrup, Maltodextrin, glucose, cane crystals, and many more. Some high sugar foods that we may not expect are; BBQ sauce, with 16 grams of sugar per 2 tablespoons, low-fat yogurt, with 30 grams of sugar per 8 ounces, fruit juice, with 23 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces, and soda with 29 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces.
c. According to Forbes, an adult should not be consuming more than 40 grams of sugar per day. However, the average American consumes over 90 grams per day. Many companies are now
Specific Purpose: To educate my audience on sugar and its effects on the body.
Central Idea: Many sugars have detrimental effects on our body and it is important that we pay closer attention to avoiding these foods.
Intro:
I. Did you know that the average American consumes around 130 pounds of sugar per year? I’m going to assume that you are surprised by this fact, as you should be, because this is way above the amounts that we should be consuming.
II. Sugar is all around us in many different forms and, more often than not, we don’t even know we are eating it. Today I am going to tell you all about sugar by describing what it really is, the main forms it exists in, its effects on the body, and how we can avoid it.
Body:
I. Sugar is the simple name for the sweet, short-chained, simple carbohydrate used in foods. Sugar is broken down into two categories; simple monosaccharides such as glucose, fructose, and galactose, and complex disaccharides such as sucrose, maltose, and lactose.
a. Sugar is a very calorie dense food with no nutritional value. Not all calories act the same way, calories from sugar are more fattening than any other calorie. A study done by Mind, Body, Green concluded that “In the American diet added sugar alone accounts for 496 calories per day”.
b. A major problem in the food industry is that sugars are hidden in almost all of our foods and we don’t even realize we are eating them. Hidden names for sugar include High Fructose Corn Syrup, Maltodextrin, glucose, cane crystals, and many more. Some high sugar foods that we may not expect are; BBQ sauce, with 16 grams of sugar per 2 tablespoons, low-fat yogurt, with 30 grams of sugar per 8 ounces, fruit juice, with 23 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces, and soda with 29 grams of sugar per 8 fluid ounces.
c. According to Forbes, an adult should not be consuming more than 40 grams of sugar per day. However, the average American consumes over 90 grams per day. Many companies are now