Health Sciences 1001A/B Chapter Notes -Generally Recognized As Safe, Leptin, Reducing Sugar
30 Apr 2012
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Chronic non-communicable diseases pose a higher risk worldwide than infectious disease: they contribute to 35million deaths annually. There are 30% more obese people in the world than undernourished people. Obesity is not the cause, rather a marker for metabolic dysfunction. Un targets diet, tobacco and alcohol as the main risk factors of these diseases. In october 2011, denmark created a tax on foods high in saturated fats: they are thinking about creating this for sugary foods as well. Added sugar = any sweetener containing the molecule fructose that is added to food in processing. Over the past 50 years, consumption of sugar has tripled worldwide. It has been linked to triggering processes that lead to liver toxicity: associated with metabolic syndrome (hypertension, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and diabetes, some early studies have also linked sugar consumption to human cancer and cognitive decline. People are consuming an average of more than 500 calories per day from added sugar alone.
