
In A Decade It Will Be Illegal, Today It’s In Everything – High-Fructose Corn Syrup
UncategorizedPlease don't believe commercials funded by companies who profit off of high-fructose corn syrup. This caloric sweetener is especially common and fattening. High-fructose corn syrup's (HFCS) high sweetness and low cost makes it one of the most…

Sugar and Cigarettes, Shockingly Similar
UncategorizedIn 1998 Coca-Cola offered schools $10,000 to advertise Coke discount cards to their students. Deeply in need of the funds, Greenbrier High School in Augusta, Georgia, invited Coke employees to lecture in classes and added the analysis of Coca-Cola…

Study of 49,000 Women Shows Eating Less Doesn’t Burn Body Fat Effectively
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“…a general public health recommendation for weight reduction through dieting cannot be supported strongly with existing data.” – D.S. Weigle, University of Washington
Occasionally when people hear about SANE they react by saying…

Calories: What are they and are they important?
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by Catherine W. Britell, M.D.
When we talk about the "calories" in food, what does that really mean? A calorie is defined as enough heat to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade. Dietitians actually use "calorie" to mean the…

10 Reasons To Eat Real Food
Uncategorized10. The rate of obesity has MORE THAN DOUBLED since 1980.
9. There are as many overweight people alive as there were TOTAL PEOPLE ALIVE ~100 years ago.
8. More than 40 million children UNDER 5 are overweight.
7. Obesity is now the #1…

Study Shows Up To 70% of Weight Lost by Dieting Comes from Burning Muscle
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“The reduction of energy intake continues to be the basis of…weight reduction programs…[The results] are known to be poor and not long-lasting.” - George Bray, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
As we touched on last week,…



