Author Archives: BRANDON DANILOVICH

• The impact social media has on food businesses.
• Are artificial sweeteners really better than sugar in the long run?
• To what extent does diet affect your mental health?

For my podcast, I chose “The Trouble With Sugar”. This one stood out to me because I have been trying to gradually cut sugar out of my diet, therefore I wanted to see what the trouble with sugar was which they were talking about. What I found most interesting was that different sugars are digested by your body differently. For example glucose is digested by your intestines, and fructose is digested by your liver. Fructose does not impact your blood sugar, which was very interesting to learn. I would recommend this podcast episode to my friends, because this information could be part of a common misconception that all types of sugar are the same.

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A meal that I’ll always remember is one that I had at my soviet day-care for lunch. After nap time, they’d often serve us a dessert called Zapikanka, a Ukrainian cheesecake which consists of farmer’s cheese, pasta, eggs, sugar, as well as raisins or other fruit. It’d always make my day when I would peek into my daycare’s kitchen and smell the aroma of vanilla powder and pasta being baked. Once in a while my parents would make it at home too.