English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

9. How much of refined sugar is fructose (111-12)?GROUP 410. Sugar that is found in nature, in fruits and vegetables, is different from refined sugar in whatimportant way (112)?11. In what two important ways does eating so many refined carbohydrates, especially sugar,contribute to obesity (112-13)?12. What problems result from industrial fertilizers (114-15)?GROUP 513. Pollan laments the “vast monocultures of a tiny group of plants [that] have replaced thediversified farms that used to feed us” (116). What does he mean?14. What two crops dominate the market now (116)? Why those two (117)? Why is this of concern tohumans (117-18)?15. Pollan explains, “We have been breeding crops for ________________________ not____________________________” (120-21). What does this mean?16. As a result, for the first time in history, human beings have managed to “be both overfedand ________________________” (122).GROUP 617. Who is Bruce Ames, and what is his (yet unproven) theory about why we eat morecalories now than ever before (123-24)?55