Sugar Informative Speech
Sugar is in almost every food we eat and it's contributed to numerous health problems that are affecting people throughout the world. And yet the food that we eat is still full of it and we still like it and crave it. In this speech I'll talk about how we became obsessed with sugar, why we like it so much, and the advantages and disadvantages to sugar.
Our obsession with sugar goes back thousands of years, but it all originally started started with evolution. Humans were evolved to have very limited sugar in their diets. This means we could have natural sugars, like in fruit, for energy, but our diets were not meant to have extra sugar added into our food. Sugar comes from a crop called the sugar cane which is about 3,000 years old, but it …show more content…
Added sugar doesn't provide any nutrients and as we all know, is bad for our teeth. Since added sugar has been introduced in our diets and is in most foods we eat, the amount of problems with our teeth has increased. Sugar gives us what is also called "empty calories", meaning there is not even an advantage to the calories we get from it. Sugar is believed to be a big issue for obesity today, especially childhood obesity. People, and especially children who have been brought up their whole lives with food dominated by sugar, can easily get addicted and this leads to having too much sugar in their diets. No matter what age you are, the more sugar you have in your diet, the more likely you are to become obese. Unfortunately, for the people who are more likely to become addicted to things, can become very addicted to sugar and other sweet, sugary foods.
So as we already know, sugar can have bad long term impacts. You can lose your teeth, get diabetes, heart disease and many other health problems, which is why too much added sugar is bad for us.
But sugar has taken over our food. It is a leading food essential. We've adapted to crave sweetness. But in terms of our health, we really haven't.
It's important for us to realise what too much added sugar can do to us, what it may be doing right now, and what it may do to us in the future.
So how much sugar do you eat? And if we continue to consume it like this, will it possibly affect our Health one
Our obsession with sugar goes back thousands of years, but it all originally started started with evolution. Humans were evolved to have very limited sugar in their diets. This means we could have natural sugars, like in fruit, for energy, but our diets were not meant to have extra sugar added into our food. Sugar comes from a crop called the sugar cane which is about 3,000 years old, but it …show more content…
Added sugar doesn't provide any nutrients and as we all know, is bad for our teeth. Since added sugar has been introduced in our diets and is in most foods we eat, the amount of problems with our teeth has increased. Sugar gives us what is also called "empty calories", meaning there is not even an advantage to the calories we get from it. Sugar is believed to be a big issue for obesity today, especially childhood obesity. People, and especially children who have been brought up their whole lives with food dominated by sugar, can easily get addicted and this leads to having too much sugar in their diets. No matter what age you are, the more sugar you have in your diet, the more likely you are to become obese. Unfortunately, for the people who are more likely to become addicted to things, can become very addicted to sugar and other sweet, sugary foods.
So as we already know, sugar can have bad long term impacts. You can lose your teeth, get diabetes, heart disease and many other health problems, which is why too much added sugar is bad for us.
But sugar has taken over our food. It is a leading food essential. We've adapted to crave sweetness. But in terms of our health, we really haven't.
It's important for us to realise what too much added sugar can do to us, what it may be doing right now, and what it may do to us in the future.
So how much sugar do you eat? And if we continue to consume it like this, will it possibly affect our Health one