Assignment 6 - Hampton Jefferson

One research topic that has interested me recently is the negative health effects of sugar and the effort of big sugar to cover it up. This was the topic I chose for my summer assignment in AP Lang and Comp and beforehand I had little to no previous knowledge over the subject. I watched a documentary called Fed Up and it opened my eyes to what exactly is going on in the sugar industry. For example, it talked about how when people were beginning to find out about how sugar was bad, soda corporations changed the ingredient to high-fructose corn syrup. This ingredient sounds healthier and it even has corn in it, but in reality, the body processes it the same way it processes sugar. I thought this topic was interesting because it was something that applied to my everyday life and it changed the way I viewed sugar.