How to identify sugar.

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Sugar.
How to identify and avoid sugar?.

Sugar appear in our foods with many names and in many forms. Listed below are the different
'names'  for sugar.Look out for these names if you want to avoid sugar. A food is likely to be high
in sugar if one of the terms appears first or second in the ingredient list or if several of them are
listed.No form of sugar is "more healthy" than white sugar.


                                             Sugar is also known as:

• Glucose.
• Lactose.
• Invert sugar.
• Glucose syrup.
• Brown sugar.
• Raw sugar.
• Black treacle.
• Fructose.
• Maltose.
• Sucrose.
• Maple syrup.
• Honey.
• Molasses.
• Golden syrup.
• concentrated fruit juice sweetener.
• Dextrose.
• Sorbitol.
• Levulose.

 Set a healthy  example for the young. Avoid soft drinks,sweets, chocolates and other high-sugar
junk foods. And don't stock your fridge with soft drinks and confectionery.

Don't give your children chocolates and sweets as  a form of reward or to show your love
for them. Make vegetables and fruits appealing to children and explain the benefits of these
foods to them.Make them attractive and colourful- children love colours, bright rows of carrots,
green beans, cauliflower "trees" or cookie-shape sandwiches will appeal to children.

Choose food wisely and read food labels to avoid sugar.

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What chemicals are added to your food.

Preservatives.
Preservatives are widely used in the food industry to extend the shelf life of food.
With preservaties in it,food can last much longer without going mouldy orbecoming infested with bugs and bacteria. It can be shipped across the world
and kept "fresh" for years.

Unfortunately, the chemical characteristics that make preservatives effective in
killing bacteria and other organisms in food can effect our heath.

- Sulphur dioxide and sulphites.

•   Sulphur dioxide (E220).
•   Sodium sulphite (E221).
•   Sodium bisulphite( E222).
•   Sodium metabisulphite (E223).
•   Potassium metabisulphite (E224).
•   Potassium sulphite (E225).
•   Calcium sulphite (E226).
•   Calcium hydrogen sulphite (E 227).
•   Potasssium bisulphate ( E228).

 Sulphur dioxide is a gas that is formed when sulphur burns. It also occurs
 naturally. It dissolves in water to form sulphurous acid. The acid form a
 series of salts called sulphites and metabisulphates,which are used as food
 preservaties.

Sulphites prevent vegetables and fruit ( including dried fruit like appricots)
from going brown after they have been peeled and keep vegetables looking
fresh even if they are old and stale.

Dried fruit slices can be kept standing for hours in a sulphite solution until
the sulphur dioxide has completely penetrated the slices.sulphites are often
used on french fries in fast-food outlets and restaurants to stop them
going brown after potatoes have been peeled.

The wine industry uses sulphites to stop wine turning to vinegar and
to preserve its colour.Grapes are often fumigated with sulphur dioxide
to prevent fungal growth.Sulphite are also used to prevent yeast and
bacterial growth in food and to stop oils and fats from turning rancid,
thus extending their shelf life.

They are also uses as a colour preservative in seafood such as
shrimp and lobster.

Health effects.
> Sulphur dioxide - linked to mutation and cancer.
> Sulphites - Severe asthma attacks,stomach problems, blured vision
    dizziness,irregular breathing and nervous irritablity.

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Avoid chemicals in your food.

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CAFFEINE.

A drug that is rapidly absorbed into the body. Like other drugs, it has to be detoxified in the body
and excreted. it occurs naturally in tea leaves,coffee beans,cola beans, cola seeds and guarana
(a berry with a natural caffeine content).

It is present in many coffee,tea and guarana drinks, cocoa,hot chocolate and chocolate. It is
also persent in many soft drinks and even some orange and other flavoured drinks.
Most "enegy", "sports" or "smart" drinks contain large quantities of caffeine.


Health effects.
Caffeine is mildly addictive, act as a stimulant  of the central nervous system and
has many other side effect of the body.
Caffeine stimulates the brain and nervous system, the heart, muscle and kidneys.


Useful tips.
> Children should avoid cola drinks "energy" or "soft: drinks  containing caffeine.
>Women should eliminate consumption of coffee and coffeine - containing drinks during
pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
>If you must drink coffee, buy decaffeinated cofee that has been processed with
water, not chemicals.( Methylene chloride, used to decaffeinate coffee, is an acknowledged
carcinogen linked to liver and lung cancer.