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Sugar Consumption Persuasive Speech

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In this passage, Alan Levinovitz uses many paths to persuade his audience that the danger of sugar consumption may be exaggerated. First, he starts out by showing examples of how scientists ideas on how sugar affects someone, have been proven wrong. Then, Alan goes on to say that some of the claims are ridiculous if they really thought about. Last, he talks about how food shouldn't be stressful because one is thinking about what is in the food they are preparing. As mentioned earlier, the first way he built his argument was to show all the incorrect accusations on sugar. First, Levinovitz stated that in 1974, pediatricians believed that sugar was the leading cause of hyperactivity. Now, more research is against this idea, than for it. Back

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