{"id":1309,"date":"2018-05-07T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2018-05-07T05:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T05:15:25","slug":"contemplative-practices-and-sugar-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/07\/contemplative-practices-and-sugar-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative practices and Sugar content"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before knowing Contemplative practices, I did not think about the sugar content in my food. However, Contemplative methods, discussed in lecture, was fascinating because helped me feel more deeply and deliberately. Contemplation helps one to be self-disciplined and helpful in training your body and spirit. Initially, sugar was only allowed for rich people and was a highly valuable and luxury item by A.D 1000. Besides, sugar was an ingredient in virtually every medicine and used for preservative. This shows that sugar was rare and people did not consume it a lot. However, in current society sugar is produced artificially in factories, so sugar prices have decreased rapidly. This mass production system met with a good result that people can purchase it easily with lower rates in anywhere, on the other hands, it caused many problems that their sugar intake also increased as much as people buying sugar with the lower prices. For example, the sugar in most sweet drinks harms your teeth and may result in excessive weight gain, and when the body detects overload of sugar, it forces the pancreas to go into overdrive. After I just got off work and had late dinner. Now under my very nose, there is chocolate. What shall I do?\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before knowing Contemplative practices, I did not think about the sugar content in my food. However, Contemplative methods, discussed in lecture, was fascinating because helped me feel more deeply and deliberately. Contemplation helps one to be self-disciplined and helpful in training your body and spirit. Initially, sugar was only allowed for rich people and was a highly valuable and luxury… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}