Why Is America So Fat?
Excerpted from: The South Beach Diet
Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life © 2008 by
Arthur Agatston, MD. Permission granted by Rodale, Inc., Emmaus, PA 18098.
Available wherever books are sold.
In this country, our epidemic of obesity and diabetes really took off over
the past three decades and has continued at a fast clip right up to the
present. Coincidentally, the 1980s was when the federal government, along
with medical groups such as the American Heart Association, began to
aggressively promote the benefits of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. This
was eventually reflected by the first USDA Food Pyramid, published in 1992,
which emphasized bread, rice, pasta, and cereals as the basis of a healthy
diet. Fats and oils were to be used sparingly. Was this the wrong advice?
Did it have a role in the fattening of America? I believe the answers to
these two questions are yes and yes.
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Sugar Pushers at Work: How to Refuse Sweets & Embrace Sanity
By Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C.
If you go to an office every day, you’ve undoubtedly been at the mercy of co-workers, who can best be dubbed "sugar pimps."
No disrespect intended, but I’m sure you know to whom I’m referring.
You know, those sweetly smiling, eager-to-please colleagues who continually proffer cakes, cookies and donuts with such polite insistence that, despite your best efforts, your diet goes belly up. (Pun intended.)
You know, those annoying people—either amazingly slim or embarrassingly overweight—who always seem to have jars of candies on their desk to tempt and torture all who pass. Read More...
Blueberries for the Family
By Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers
www.FreshBaby.com
Blueberries are available in many forms: fresh, frozen, juice, puree,
concentrate and dried. Fresh blueberries should be firm, dry, plump and
smooth-skinned. Ripe berries are deep purple blue to blue-black. Stay away from
containers of berries with juice stains, or that contain moldy, soft, watery or
wrinkled fruit.
Storage: Store covered in the refrigerator for five to seven days. Don’t wash
blueberries until to you are ready to use them.
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