Photo Simon:
Photo Josef: Photo Johanna:
Web-Contribution
(Title with a selfmade picture)
(Introduction)
(The journey, transport, technical aspect and impact on the environment) with pictures and diagrames.
(How sugar became involved in our society)
(The bad aspects of too much sugar consumption)
(Preparations for our self-experiment & introduction of our collaboration partners)
(The experiment itself)
(Results of our experiment)
(Reflection of our experiment and how we can eat less sugar)
(Final words)
Lucky for us, we live in the same household so we could each take turns cooking. So the whole thing was not so stressful when you had to do more for school the other person could cook. We were surprised about the hidden sugar that is unfortunately in almost every product. But we had to do the week without many products that we normally need. Johanna has survived the week even if it was not always easy. Josef unfortunately became weak on the weekend, because he won a tennis tournament and then celebrated this with a Ice Cream.
Johanna & Josef Heidel
We made an Interview with Mr. Stänz about our topic. Fortunately, we were able to have lunch with him and ask our questions.
What is the difference between industrial sugar and natural sugar?
Basically, there is natural sugar in every raw material or food you harvest. However, during processing, the substances to process this sugar in the body are destroyed. For this reason, processed foods can not be well processed in the body, because he has to fall back on his reserves. When there are no more reserves, the sugar is stored. For this reason, people get fatter.
What does an optimal nutrition day look like for you?
As much natural food as possible. I personally grind my own oatmeal, because many substances are lost during processing. Nevertheless, I also produce my own chocolate when I want to eat dessert.
What are the dangers of sugar?
In the past, there were poor people who worked a lot in the sugar field and ate sugar beets all day. They had extremely white teeth. The rich people ate the processed sugar and got rotten teeth. This is again due to the substances that are lost. However, back pain, headaches and of course diabetes are also part of excessive consumption. When you try to give up sugar you also have much more energy than normal. I have done this 3 times in my life and the feeling is unbelievable. Many of people's ailments would disappear if they gave up sugar.
Referring to our self-experiment. Will we already notice changes after one week without industrial sugar?
Probably not. You would have to do the experiment for a whole month to really notice anything. However, the beginning is always the most difficult and I think that one week is already hard enough for you. Maybe you have the motivation to extend the experiment. If you can do it for a week, you can also do it for a month.
Thank you for your time!
Interviewed by Nicola & Simon
(Simon & Nicola)
How will you build a collaboration team across borders & cultures? With whom?
We would like to create a collaboration team on the topic sugar.
We would like to reach people in Germany, so that they can do a self-experiment with us how to life without sugar. Aswell, we would like to do a survey about the topic sugar.
Nutrition or food consumed in Switzerland
- Processed products and their production (harvest - product in Migros)
- Unhealthy diet
- Sugar (Thematize how many everyday foods contain sugar)
- Additives (chemistry)
- A self-experiment (giving up sugar) is carried out with the collaboration partners. They tell us about their experiences with sugar in their culture.
Eating Habits
Air pollution is already a serious issue. It is responsible for numerous diseases and deaths.
To prevent this, the Swiss government has already taken various measures.
Massnahmen zur Luftreinhaltung des Schweizer Bundes
Teamwork (Leara & Nicola)
The Dodo is a flightless bird that became extinct over 300 years ago. In fact, it is probably the first extinction ever caused by humans.
Since the extinction of animals is a growing topic, I will report on the dodo, the first animal exterminated by us humans.
Vom Menschen verursachtes Aussterben – Was wir über den Dodo wissen - Blogg.de
In my opinion sugar is and is an enormous problem in our world. Already today many people in our world are diabetics and do not know how to eat right or how to stay away from this drug.
Unfortunately, there is far too little education in this area. I want to change this.
Zucker ist Gift für den Körper (zentrum-der-gesundheit.de)