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Weight-Loss And Water-Intake: The Ancient “Fat Switches” Of Water, Fructose, & Salt Help Reverse Obesity

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Weight-Loss And Water-Intake: The Ancient “Fat Switches” Of Water, Fructose, & Salt Help Reverse Obesity
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Researchers Discover 3 Switches For Weight-Loss, Starting With Water:
So with the problem of weight-loss, there are all kinds of approaches.

Crazy celebrity fad-diets, calorie-restriction, Weight Watchers, special magic foods, etc.

Some people even try to out-exercise bad nutrition; which is of course, impossible unless you’re Lokelani McMichael.

Because the problem is so thorny, medical & nutrition researchers are going to all kinds of lengths to find some kind of key that might make things easier through diet magic.

And Dr. Richard Johnson’s team might just have found another one…

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Sugar & Fat: Consumption Of Added-Sugar In Diet Supercharges Fuel For Health Problems

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Sugar & Fat: Consumption Of Added-Sugar In Diet Supercharges Fuel For Health Problems
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Added-Sugar In Diet Worse For Fat Than We Thought:
So we’ve railed on about sugar and also fast-carbs, many times over the years.

Including the evils of the Inflammation Spiral that it can create.

It’s not doing your body-composition any favors, and may also be affecting your gut microbes, too.

But some crafty-researchers took time off from studying cuckoo clocks in Switzerland to find out it might be as bad or worse than we thought before…

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Tsar Wars, The Phantom Influence: Sugar & Corn Play Spy-Vs.-Spy Shadow War To Swipe Sweet Profits

Filed Under: Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Tsar Wars, The Phantom Influence: Sugar & Corn Play Spy-Vs.-Spy Shadow War To Swipe Sweet Profits
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A lot of times when you read new health info on the internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt.

Well Eric Lipton helps shed some new light on just how bad that can get with his piece at the NYT on the shadowy showdown between the Sugar and Corn Industries and their operators (which hopefully doesn’t include the Rutgers work on Soda).

The digest reads abit like one of those old “Spy Vs. Spy” cartoons,…

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8 ½ Reasons You Should Eat Whole Fruit Instead Of Drinking Juice

Filed Under: Featured, Nutrition

8 ½ Reasons You Should Eat Whole Fruit Instead Of Drinking Juice
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So this interesting study came out echoing some previous thoughts on fast-carbs, and ultimately supported the idea of eating your fruit instead of drinking it.

One of the more clever things it Did do, was to note that some fruits more than others were associated with health problems like Diabetes.

But some of the other things it wasn’t really focused on, was to suggest reasons Why, or to fill in too many of the blanks.

So on that note, here are a few thoughts on it you might want to consider:…

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TOUCHDOWNNNNNN!!! Cargill Gets Stevia Past Los Federales. -TRUVIA Is Here!!!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Favorites, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

TOUCHDOWNNNNNN!!! Cargill Gets Stevia Past Los Federales. -TRUVIA Is Here!!!
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OLÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ!!!!!

FINALLY you don’t have to go out all the way to the Health Food Store to get your hands on some non-lethal, non-sugar sweetener.

Years and years after the Nutrasweet corporation helped to scuttle Stevia into the “Supplements” category,

Even though it’s been on the GRAS list in Europe for quite awhile, it -or at least MegaCorp Cargill’s version of the sweetener is now GRAS as far as El Fed is concerned…

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Review: Zevia, The First Soda Sweetened With Stevia

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Favorites, Nutrition, Reviews, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Review: Zevia, The First Soda Sweetened With Stevia
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Track 4 from “Transistor”, by 311

-or a Star Wars Trilogy Sandwich.

Okay, this one’s been on the shelf and now the hot weather is officially here, I thought it was time to send it out.

Awhile back, I noticed a google ad here on the site and thought, “Soda with Stevia? -NO WAY!”

-I immediately shot out an email & Stacey Fujimura + the good folks at Zevia sent us out a sixpack of their soda…

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High Fructose Corn Syrup In Soda Linked To More Health Problems

Filed Under: Nutrition

High Fructose Corn Syrup In Soda Linked To More Health Problems
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EN GARDE, high fructose corn-syrup junkies! Your soda is trouble.

:( No, this is not an entry on how to make a sub-nuclear pipe bomb out of a 2-Liter Splenda-fied bottle of Diet Coke, 2oz. Ammonia, #0000 Steel Wool, and a pack of Mentos.

(try BoingBoing for that)

Researcher Extraordinaire, Dr. Chi Tang Ho and his associates at Rutgers Food Science Department have tested several carbonated sodas containing that longtime HT “Agent Smith”…

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