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Do you know the both stimulating the same part of the brain.
This means sugar acts the same way a drug
truth about your does, that’s why most of the people can’t stop
consuming food and drinks with a high per-
food? centage of sugar, because they are addicted.
Por Celeste Blanco, Mariana Barboza y Patricia Correa.
Did you know that more than 9 million chil-
dren and teens from 6-19 years old are con-
sidered overweight? Or that individuals who
drink one to two sugar-sweetened beverages
per day have a 26% higher risk for develop-
ing type II diabetes? Food, specially fast food
and sweet beverages, might be delicious but
food does not taste good by its own, it needs
sugar and fat to “be delicious”. Do you know how your
Some companies sell products that, even body processes the sugar
though they know they are bad for our health,
contain high portions of sugar and fat and you consume?
that are mainly the cause of obesity in Mexi-
co and the whole world because people are When your body receives more sugar than
not aware of the consequences of this two in- you’re supposed to consume, your heart starts
gredients. beating faster, so your whole system works
faster than it should and the liver, to keep the
This food companies such as McDonald’s, beat and because it can’t process sugar any-
Coca-Cola, KFC, Dominoes’ Pizza, Pepsi, more, starts turning the sugar into fat. Most
Starbucks, Krispy Kreme and so many others people don’t exercise and that’s why belly fat
keep selling this products because they get keeps producing and it’s not burnt. Belly fat
huge amounts of money from the sold stuff is the most dangerous of all.
and governments. They have tried to con-
vince the whole world that their products are We have to consider that running 5 minutes
good for us, there’s even an association that won’t do anything to our bodies, in fact, it
has fought other associations like Michelle will take a 110-pound child 75 minutes of
Obama’s, “Let’s Move”. bike riding to burn off the calories in one 20-
ounce bottle of soda. It’s really hard to burn
Leaving the food companies by a side, there calories, that’s why you have to measure the
is a scientific test that shows that sugar caus- sugar and the calories a product contains.
es a similar, if not the same effect as cocaine,
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