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Make your food from scratch at home. Stop making your dinner from a box. If you see preservatives in your food, don't use them. Use the slow cooker and/or cook extra on your days off and freezing them for use later. Your health and your life may depend on it.

Remember the Roman Empire. Yeah, there are still a bunch of academics who claim it's hooey- but- the decline and fall of Rome parallels almost exactly the installation and widespread use of - lead pipes for drinking water. "Nonsense!" the Roman Lead Makers Association screamed. "It's perfectly safe!" Meanwhile- their leaders, and citizens, got crazier and crazier...

This is not new information, rather information that was earlier dismissed by the Harvard Elite. Wanna be fat eat more carbs. Wanna be thin read what Dr. Atkins had to say, among others.

I'm fat. I'd love to blame fructose, but it's only the fault of my fat self.

This is kind of a no-brainer study. Sugar is a stimulant thus it temporarily heightens the senses. I agree with Landshark about reading what Atkins said about sugar and carbs and was very successful on a slightly modified version of that diet some years back (I'll give up coffee when they pry my mug out of my cold, dead hand! But you can make it work by drinking it black and limiting yourself to one or two cups per day). That said, anybody who thinks they will get away with eating nothing but meat, cheese and eggs three times a day had better think again. The biggest key to success on a low-carb, low-sugar diet plan is eating vegtables...lots of them, and strictly limiting if not outright cutting starches and sweets made with granular or processed sugar. Apples and grapes are the best options in terms of fresh fruit. Stay on the outside of the supermarket and stay out of the middle of the middle of it.

The test doesn't prove anything but of course scientist have to add their opinion anyway. Scientists are becoming politicians you can't believe anything they say anymore.

If fructose turns out to be a real villain, don’t go after HFCS. Instead, go after apple, pear, and grape juices. They’re commonly found in “all natural” products and juice drinks aimed at children, and they’re higher in fructose than HFCS.

"If fructose turns out to be a real villain, don’t go after HFCS. Instead, go after apple, pear, and grape juices. They’re commonly found in “all natural” products and juice drinks aimed at children, and they’re higher in fructose than HFCS."------I agree that using concentrated fruit juice as a sweetener is just a marketing ploy to call it "all natural, no added sugar". But that doesn't let HFCS off the hook. That stuff is in EVERYTHING. And it's highly chemically processed, making it an artificial sweetener. Better to avoid it entirely.

This makes perfect sense. Over the course of our evolutionary history sugary foods were rare. In certain seasons of the year we could obtain fruit, but that's about it. Most regions of the world did not have sweet foods year round. Even 150 years ago for most people an orange was a once a year treat. Humans crave sugar because it is very high in calories and energy. During the times of the year that sugary foods were available it would have been advantageous to eat as much as possible and store all that energy as fat for the rest of the year when food is more scarce. It would only make evolutionary sense that if we eat sugary foods it would prompt us to want to eat more (as overeating is what cues our body to start storing energy as fat). Of course now we can get sugary foods everywhere we turn. This artificially triggers our evolutionary and biological eating cues and throws our eating habits out of whack. I think that understanding this makes resisting these foods and sticking to a healthy diet easier.

"Stay on the outside of the supermarket and stay out of the middle of the middle of it." ----- Or as Michael Pollan would say. If your great grandmother wouldn't recognize it, you probably shouldn't eat it.