A Series of Questions About Nutrition Essay

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added sugar, as distinguished from naturally-occurring sugars, are unhealthy; that consumers must read labels carefully; that limits for added sugar are manageable for people; and that natural sugars are not a free-for-all. What this means is that some products with high levels of naturally-occurring sugars, such as juices or dried fruit, can be unhealthy for different reasons. Of particular interest to me in this article was the way that the article presented its case. It is speaking to an audience that lack education on the subject, and maybe has trouble conceiving of how it could possible go a day on just 100 calories of added sugar. It's good to have these basic tips, though, to separate fact from fiction, as there is a lot of fiction in this world about diets.

The article by the FDA about gluten-free foods states that the FDA now officially set a gluten limit for foods to be allowed to be labelled as gluten free. This ruling was important for people with celiac disease, as they need to manage their gluten carefully. Furthermore, this ruling was necessary to curb the use of terms like "gluten free" in food marketing for products that still contained gluten.
Basically, gluten is "a mixture of proteins that occur naturally in wheat, rye, barley and crossbreeds of these grains" (FDA.gov, 2015). The FDA defines gluten free as having less than 20 ppm of gluten, the lowest level for which there is reliable testing.

2. The video about Mauritania highlights that in many countries, fatness is considered a sign of wealth. In these countries, famine is a real risk, and thus skinniness is associated with not having enough food to eat. Families seek to overstuff their daughters to make them fat, as this will make those daughters more desirable, and it is a sign of status for the family. Families often resort to child abuse in order to make this happen. In the second video, a morbidly obese man is seeking to, via surgery, get to a weight where he can lead an active life again. The was essentially eating himself to death. He is described as an example of how too much fat can cripple the body.

The two cultures do not have different views on obesity necessarily. The Mauritanian video did not talk about obesity. When it had shots of women in the city walking, they were.....

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