Before I get to the news…
If you have not noticed by now, for the past few weeks I have been placing a spotlight on both High-fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oils. Both of these ingredients are big contributors to the streak of bad health that plagues our community. Please take the time to read the labels of the products you purchase from you local grocery store (convenience stores are havens for these ingredients).
Last year I invited readers to join me in a low/no sugar and salt diet for a week after the Christmas holidays. If you are interested in joining me this year, leave a comment and we can take it from there.
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Sweet obsession
BY CAROLYN POIROT
FORT WORTH, Texas – High-fructose corn syrup isn’t completely responsible for the nation’s six million overweight children – but Dr. George Bray says it’s a big part of the problem.
Nurture trumps nature in the current childhood-obesity epidemic, says Bray. It’s the environment we’re creating for our kids that’s the problem, and that environment includes increasing numbers of products high in high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS.
Bray, who served as founding president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and organized the first international congress on obesity in 1973, points out that between 1970 (when HFCS was introduced) and 2000 (when average yearly consumption of the ultra-sweet liquid sugar hit 73.5 pounds per person in this country), the prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population. (more…)
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