"Here's an interesting website - Sugar Stacks!" Topic

Ever been told that the soda you're drinking or the cereal you're eating has way too much sugar in it? Well, here's a website that best illustrates how much refined white sugar your favorite food or beverage has in it (thanks to the link from MSN that I found yesterday):

sugarstacks.com

I think this is a very novel idea, and I hope that they'll be successful and able to illustrate even more pre-packaged foods that most of us use. Personally, I'd like to see a site that graphically illustrates the amount of salt that's in manufactured and ready-to-eat foods, as my family has an issue with high blood pressure.

Eat healthy!

Well I got no surprises there. It's good to see it done like this but as a compulsive label reader for me maybe not needed.

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Some people have a hard time visualizing what a gram of sugar must be like. Particularly here in the US, where we haven't gone fully metric (or even mostly metric. OK, hardly metric at all). A visual like this is a good idea for them.

I particularly liked the increasing size of the sugar cube stacks with the soda cans and bottle. I don't think my students have the faintest clue how increasing the size or number of the serving(s) affects their caloric intake, since to them it's just a beverage.

Well, here's a website that best illustrates how much refined white sugar your favorite food or beverage has in it

It doesn't show that at all.
It shows how much of any sugar is in the food, using refined white sugar cubes as a visual aid.

For example, US Coke generally has no refined white sugar in it, since it uses corn syrup. Carrots have no refined anything in them, since they've never been refined.
-Kle.

Good point, Kle. Still, whether the sugar is refined or natural, visualizing it like this website does can definitely help a person see how much sugar is in a certain food, especially since most people aren't label readers, and won't take the time to do that. I try to read labels, but it can be rather confusing.

Neo, here's an idea: maybe you can make some prinouts from the site and hang them up in your classroom. I wonder how many "Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot" facial expressions you'll get from your students after seeing what they constantly ingest from their sodas and, especially, energy drinks?

Good suggestion, Saginaw.

This is a really good idea. It really helps put denial in its place. Its hard to ignore what you actually see.