At long last, the scientific “establishment” is starting to understand that it’s the sugar, stupid! At long last, they’re starting to relay the important message that sugar (and all caloric sweeteners) are the major cause of obesity and health problems in our country and in our world. “Sugar is toxic beyond it’s calories,” say researchers from UC/San Francisco. ”The public’s excessive consumption of sugar not only is contributing to a global obesity pandemic but also is critically altering people’s hormones, metabolism and blood presssure and causing significant damange to the liver.”
An article entitled “The Toxic Truth About Sugar” was published by the scientists in Nature, a journal. The article draws attention to the unhappy fact that consumption of sugar (and all caloric sweeteners including HFCS) has triped worldwide over the past 50 years and contributes to 35 million deaths each year. The biggest problem to be corrected is the false but popular belief that caloric sweeteners are relatively harmless because they’re just empty calories. Of course, sugar has no fat, which also makes it seem harmless. We’ve all been relentlessly brainwashed to believe that fat is the culprit in our diet, when it’s been sugar all along. People simply don’t understand that sugar is toxic and addictive. For one thing, excess sugar consumption mimics the effects of drinking too much alcohol, which of course, is made from distilling sugar! Also, as mentioned above, caloric sweeteners have a dramatic impact on metabolism, your body can’t handle the chronic overload. They raise blood pressure, disrupt mineral absorption, alter hormonal processing, and overload liver function. How bad is that!
The scientists recommend making sugar consumption slightly less convenient by imposing a licensing requirement to sell sweetened drinks and snacks in schools and in the workplace. This would control access in the same way that access is controlled to alcohol and cigarettes. In other words, it makes products loaded with concentrated doses of caloric sweeteners slightly more expensive and restricted. We’ll have to see what the food manufacturers. lobbyists and libertarians have to say about that! It won’t be pretty.
The bottom line is that this is really good news. This research is a tiny but hopeful chink in the low-fat, low-calorie message that has led us down a very long and wrong path for the past 50 years. Hooray for the Sugar-Free Miracle Diet Sytem that’s been extending this message a full 5 years ahead of the power curve! Listen up out-of-control eaters and sugar addicts! It’s absolutely essemtial to get caloric sweeteners (and foods that quickly convert to sugar) out of the diet! Eating sugar is like giving an alcoholic a drink. For get all the psycho talk, and do something practical with the way you eat.
I’m not sure how to react to celebrity chef Paula Deen’s delayed announcement of contracting diabetes. Do I give full vent to the same schadenfreude as when I learned that many tobacco executives die of lung cancer? I don’t think I can pull off kicking that woman when she’s down with a straight face.
Ms. Deen even before her announcement had always hedged her bets telling her audience to practice moderation. I wonder if moderation can be taught by people who don’t look like they walk it like they talk it. I have never expected total abstinence and a life without a little chocolate or Key Lime Pie in it makes you extremely boring. So does this make her the food TV equivalent of a professional football player willing to spend the rest of her life in extreme pain in return for fifteen years of gridiron glory as an example for the rest of us? She doesn’t score touchdowns or do funny endzone dances, so I don’t think her fans will give her the same free pass for the apparent stupidity of wrecking your body for other people’s entertainment.
News shows found pictures of Ms. Deen posed with stacks of butter and suddenly scrutinized every meal. Oooooooooooh! She had a cheeseburger and fries! I’m not going to defend that plate as healthy, but no one eats perfectly. I still occasionally bust out the real whipped cream for the once a year pumpkin pie. I pay for it a few days later and go back to my normal regimen. I suppose this sort of thing could be what Ms. Deen meant by moderation, striking a balance between her Key Lime Pie and living long enough to enjoy the experience.
Nancy Appleton PhD is a world expert on health problems due to over consumption of caloric sweeteners. She’s the author of Lick the Sugar Habit, Suicide by Sugar, Killer Colas and others. For more information about Dr. Appleton or to get on her mailing list, visit her website: 
This recipe is made with low-fat cream cheese, which is also called Neufchatel cheese or farmer’s cheese. Low-fat/neufchatel cream cheese is a sugar-free product that has about 1/3 less calories than regular cream cheese. It’s also softer than regular cream cheese because, well, because it has less fat and more moisture. 
BPA doesn’t have anything to do with out-of-control eating or weight loss, but it can make you, your kids, and your fetus sick. BPA is the acronym for Bisphenol-A. It’s a plastic component that’s used in many plastic bottles and containers. It’s also in the epoxy resin that lines most cans. Manufacturers use BPA-type products because they prevent spoilage, they’re resistant to corrosion, and they can withstand the high heats used in sterilization. There is no law against using BPA, so you have to think for yourself on this one. 
BPA has already been removed from most baby bottles, sippy cups and pacifiers, but it’s still present in cans (incuding, of all things, baby formula cans) and in other plastic containers, bottles and toys. The problem with BPA is that it leaches into the food or the drink, which means that BPA is being regularly ingested and stored in the body. Plastic with BPA is especially dangerous when heated because this inceases the likelihood of leaching. BPA mimics the effect of estrogen, a hormone, and it disrupts and interferes with normal homonal functions. 
The safest bet is to stop feeding infants formula that comes in a can, and to consider cutting way, way back on the amount of soup or canned foods you give your kids for lunch everyday. In general, look for bottles and cans that are clearly marked BPA-free. Eden Organic, for example, uses BPA-free cans for most of their products. Avoid polycarbonate (PC) bottles that have a #7 or #3 recycling code. Note that acidic foods like tomatoes, can’t be packaged in BPA-free cans, but there are brands that use cartons, like Pomi. For heating, always Use glass or ceramic products. Never use any kind of plastic or plastic wrap in a microwave. 
One teaspoon of salt is about 2,300 milligrams of salt, which is exactly the same as the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for salt consumption. In all the mania to cut down on salt, please remember that a teaspoon of salt everyday is absolutely essential for your health. You need salt for proper fluid balance, for muscle contraction and relaxation, and for nerve impulse transmission. The Sugar-Free Miracle Diet is not overly concerned with limiting salt in home-prepared recipes, because daily salt consumption is automatically reduced by eating less processed foods. 
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Okay, I have to tell you this right up front. I’m in love with Chris Crowley. Giddily, hopelessly, starry-eyed in love! Crowley is a hunky, 70-something guy who has the contagious kind of energy that turns me on and gets me excited about life. This is the biggest reason I’m recommending his book, Younger Next Year, to you.
Crowley and his co-author, Dr Henry “Harry” Lodge, wrote this phenomenal bestseller a few years ago, and it’s still going strong. Lodge is an okay MD who says all the right stuff, but it’s Crowley who makes the material jump off the page and into your heart. The key to the program is found in following the seven rules. Exercise six days a week. Don’t eat crap. Connect and commit to others. By following the rules, both men and women can become functionally younger, stronger, sexier and more powerful every year. There’s a version of the book for men and another version for women.
HFCS (or High Fructose Corn Syrup) and sugar are the two most popular and prevalent caloric sweeteners in the world. They’re both similar and different. Table sugar, which is technically known as sucrose is made from a recipe that’s 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose. HFCS on the other hand, is made from a recipe where there’s slightly more fructose, usually 55 percent or more. The other difference is that table sugar/sucrose typically comes from beets and is solid and HFCS comes from corn and is liquid.
Most people don’t know what to think about HFCS because they don’t know the meaning of fructose. “Fruct” sounds a little like fruit, and that’s a big clue. Fructose is the naturally-occurring sugar found in fruits. Everyone knows we’re supposed to eat more fruits, so the logical but false conclusion is that HFCS is a healthier substance than sugar. Of course, food manufacturers take advantage of this healthy association and do their best to convince consumers that foods made with HFCS are a wholesome, smart choice. There’s nothing wrong with the naturally-occurring fructose that occurs in fruits. Fructose is only problematic when it’s ingested in excessive, unnatural amounts which is especially the case in caloricaly-sweetened juices and sodas.
Another confusing factor is the fact that HFCS has a lower glycemic index (GI) than sugar, and this also falsely makes it seems less harmful. The glycemic index is a measure of how fast foods break down into blood sugar and the size of the insulin response it prompts. So, for example, the higher the concentration of blood sugar, the greater the insulin response, the worse the glycemic index. Unfortunately, the glycemic index only measures the effect of sucrose, not fructose. As you know, the HFCS recipe has more fructose than glucose, and this allows for the destructive overdosing of fructose to go unmeasured or monitored.
This fat floats around in your blood stream, gets deposited in your fat cells, and attaches to your blood vessels to form plaques. All this formidable fat action goes relatively unnoticed, however, because fructose is under the radar, so to speak. Even worse, triglyceride production accelerates when massive amounts of fructose are consumed over a long period of time. And lastly, high triglyceride levels have also been shown to drag up total cholesterol levels.
Can it possibly be a coincidence that the introduction of HFCS into our food supply in 1978 parallels the dramatic increase in obesity and overweight in our country? Unfortunately for you, the bulk of scientific research attention is still focused on dietary fat and dietary cholesterol, very little is on sugar/sucrose, and even less is on HFCS. That said, the destructive role that excessive amounts of fructose plays in high triglyceride production is slowly coming to light. As it turns out, for example, it’s much more likely that cardiac patients will have high triglycerides than high total cholesterol, and something called the atherogenic profile could become the single best predictor of heart disease risk. This profile is comprised of just two factors: high triglycerides and low HDL (the healthy cholesterol). Atherogenic is a new term that refers to conditions that result in plaque build-up in the blood vessels.
It will take another 20 years or so for nutritional guidelines from our government to change and for the message about the toxic effects of HFCS to become more mainstream. In the meantime, think and act for yourself and consider just saying no to HFCS. It’s the easiest, healthiest detox program in the world! While you’re at it, get rid of sugar, too, which is no better for you.
According to the Tufts Univesity Health & Nutrition Letter (December 2012 edition), the American Heart Association recently revised it’s heart healthy eating program. New dietary guidelines include up to 35% of calories from fat, especially monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats, which are now recognized as desirable and okay. Unfortunately, the American Heart Association and other organizations are way behind the power curve and have to undo the incorrect low fat message that resulted in skyrocketing overweight, obesity and diabetes statistics. The truth is that people who avoid fat products, but who eat foods that have a lot of sugar (caloric sweeteners) and refined flours get FAT and increase their risk of heart disease. That’s the damn cosmic joke of it all, and the Sugar-Free Miracle Diet has been broadcasting this message for years! 
Karen Bentley understands weight management. She knows that losing weight and gaining weight are predictable outcomes based on the way that you eat. Her book will help you to lose weight and to keep it off because it's written by someone who passionately lives, teaches and writes about successful weight management.
I'm the creator and director of The Sugar-Free Miracle Diet System, a weight loss program that's specifically designed to stop out-of-control eating. I've been working in this field since 1998 and have helped over 3,000 people to break free of the reliance on food for non nutritional reasons. Recently, my stopping program has been expanded to address all out-of-control behaviors. 
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