"Food companies are adding an evil ingredient to their products that may turn your body into a fat-storing machine."

"During my first semester in graduate school, I took a course called food science, the study of ingredients in foods. It was 1980. 'High-fructose corn syrup has recently been introduced into the food supply,' my professor told us. 'It's a very inexpensive sweetener and will likely replace sugar in most processed foods.' I could tell she wasn't happy about that. She went on to explain that our understanding of how fructose works in the body was very limited, and we had no idea how it would affect the population.

"Now we know.

"High-fructose corn syrup is making America fat. How? By shutting off the switches that control appetite. It's more easily turned into fat than any other carbohydrate. And it's everywhere, from the obvious places like Coke and Mountain Dew to barbecue sauce and canned soup."

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"There isn't any doubt that obesity is on the rise, and it must be coming from somewhere."
-- William J. Whelan (Biochemist, noting a parallel in the rise of obesity and corn syrup use)

"Don't worry about natural sources of fructose that you find in fruit and honey."

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"Normally, when you eat a food that contains glucose or starch -- or any other carbohydrate -- your body releases insulin, a hormone that does a series of important jobs to regulate your body weight: First, it tries to push the carbs into your muscle cells to be used as energy and facilitates carb storage in the liver for later use. Then it suppresses your appetite -- telling your body, in effect, that you're full and it's time to stop eating. Finally, it stimulates production of another hormone, leptin.

"Leptin is manufactured in your fat cells and acts as a nutrition traffic cop of sorts. It helps regulate storage of body fat and helps increase your metabolism when needed to keep your weight in check.

"'Fructose doesn't stimulate insulin and therefore doesn't increase the production of leptin,' says [Peter] Havel [a nutrition researcher at the University of California at Davis]. This is the most important part of the case against fructose in general and HFCS [high fructose corn syrup] in particular: Without insulin and leptin, your appetite has no shutoff mechanism. You can drink a six-pack of Mountain Dew or eat a half-gallon of frozen yogurt, and your body will hardly acknowledge that you've consumed any calories at all. Eat the equivalent number of calories in the form of a Thanksgiving dinner and you feel stuffed.

"A 2002 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at whether soda itself, or the high-fructose corn syrup in soda, was the problem. The study took two groups of overweight people and had one group drink regular soft drinks while the other drank diet soda for 10 weeks. The regular-soda group gained weight and increased their body fat -- not surprising, given that they consumed 28% more calories than normal while on the soda regimen. Worse, they also saw an increase in their blood pressures."

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I once heard a pediatrician who is knowledgeable in nutritional matters, say that he always cautions parents to not give their kids sugar sweetened beverages, soft drinks, and prepared and powdered mixtures which are full of artificial colors and sweeteners and/or sugar. He tells parents that 100 percent fruit juice is a good alternative, but even it shouldn't be overdone. Some parents look perplexed and ask, "What's left?" When the doctor answers, "Water, of course," he says they look at him like he's from Mars. "But my kids won't drink water." The doctor asks, "Have you tried giving it to them?" The answer is inevitably, "Well, no." Children aren't so different from adults in habit patterns. We tend to get used to and enjoy what's placed before us, especially if it's what our bodies really need.

And once you get used to drinking as much water as you need, it's what you crave! That old junky stuff doesn't even sound good any more. Chilled fruit juice and iced herbal teas (perhaps sweetened with a little honey or pure maple syrup) are a good solution when you want "something else." But let your thirst be quenched the way nature intended - with water.

"Acknowledging that obesity is 'epidemic' among New York City schoolchildren, the city's Education Department is reducing the fat content in the 800,000 meals it serves daily and is banning candy, soda and other saccharine snacks from school vending machines."

"A recent study showed that according to Centers for Disease Control guidelines, almost 20 percent of third graders and 21 percent of sixth graders in New York City are obese. In poor neighborhoods like the South Bronx, East Harlem and Bushwick, Brooklyn, almost 15 percent of the population has diabetes, often caused by poor diet and lack of exercise."

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Main Entry: cat·e·chu·men
Pronunciation: "ka-t&-'kyü-m&n
Function: noun
Date: 15th century

1. a convert to Christianity receiving training in doctrine and discipline before baptism
   
2. one receiving instruction in the basic doctrines of Christianity before admission to communicant membership in a church