Louise Adrienn D.

Yumul
BS Nursing 1-E

The Sugar Film

1. Sugar has become so prevalent in today's society that if you removed all the items
containing it from a standard supermarket's shelves just 20% of items would remain.
2. The first reports of sugar came from New Guinea in 8000 BC.
3. In the 12th century, sugar arrived in Europe and it became a status symbol for
royalty.
4. Queen Elizabeth I had a real love of sugar, so much so that her teeth rotted and went
black from it.
5. On September 23, 1955, the US President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack
and the issue of heart disease was thrust into the public domain. Two strong theories
emerged: 1. Fat was the problem, 2. Sugar is to blame
6. 1 teaspoon of sugar is already equivalent to 4 grams.
7. When we eat certain foods, they break down to glucose which our body uses for fuel.
8. Lactose is the smoothest and first sugar mammals have, examples are milk, cheese,
and yogurts.
9. Sucrose is the sugar that all the fuss is about, it is the table sugar we use in coffee or
tea. Some says it’s dangerous because it made up of two sugars; 50% of glucose plus
50% fructose.
10. Fructose was very rare, it was only found in fruits, veggies and honey but now we
find it everywhere in so many foods we eat.
11. One apple is about four teaspoon of sugar.
12. Tsunami effect may happen when excessive sugar gets into the liver and it has a lot
of consequence.
13. In low-fat yogurt there’s 10 teaspoons of sugar.
14. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is an enzyme in the liver that helps the reactions to
go out.
15. The liver doesn’t have a system to regulate the fructose because it was so rare in
nature.
16. Some fat is going to stay in the liver and you’re going to increase the risk for insulin
resistance and diabetes.
17. When we are eating a lot of sugar and other carbohydrates like bread and pasta, we
are producing lots of glucose.
18. The more glucose in the blood, the more insulin is released.
19. There are these chronic diseases that are related to obesity and diabetes, heart
disease, many cancer, gout, hypertension, high blood pressure and possibly
alzheimer’s disease.
20. The brain and body run on glucose, if the level is unstable – brain and mental
function is also unstable but if the glucose level is stable – it brings more clarity.
21. Your brain is really happy because it has enough sugar to keep it going.
22. In 2008, Coca-Cola claimed that Australia’s Northern Territory was their highest
selling region per capita in the world.
23. Any sugar, brown, white, high fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrate has equal
effect on your health.
24. 1.25 liter bottle of Mountain Dew contains 37 teaspoon of sugar and 40% more
caffeine than the same size bottle of Coke.
25. Refined sugar and excess fructose give serious damage to the health and well-being
of people.