I just had a conversation with a woman who asked me what my New Year’s resolution was and I said I don’t have one. She seemed perplexed, but began complaining that she had been dieting like crazy since New Year’s and only lost 2 pounds.  Then she said to me, “You’re so lucky.  Look at how skinny you are.” Hold it right there. The lifestyle habits that I CHOOSE 365 days a year are what...

If there is one fact that rings true in the nutrition world, it’s that all sugars are NOT created equal!

That is particularly true when you’re talking about fructose and glucose.

Back when I was a health insurance underwriter in the mid-1980s, the adult obesity rate in this country was 10 percent (according to the CDC). Some states had rates as high as 14 percent, but the average was about 10.
Now?
We’re looking at nearly 40 PERCENT of adults, and about one out of five children!
It’s time we started asking ourselves what in the world is going on!
First let’s start with…

Slowly but surely the world is catching on that using chemical concoctions to sweeten food and beverages without adding calories will sooner or later come back to bite you in the derriere.   And all I can say is it’s about time.

The “Nutrition Facts” shown on food labels are supposed to give you useful information on the nutritional value of what you’re buying as well as disclose the ingredients, so you can decide if it’s right for you.  Unfortunately, it’s not that cut and dry.  Instead food manufacturers use several little tricks to mislead you, fool you or out and out lie to you to compel you to buy their products…even if that means jeopardizing your health!

Sadly, more and more of what we’re eating is not real food at all—it’s “stuff.”  Highly processed, loaded with chemicals, with lists of ingredients you can’t even pronounce and a far cry from anything that has ever appeared in Nature.