Fructose Anyone?

Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Really Good for You?

Time - September 17, 2008 - By Lisa McLaughlin

Shopping last week in her local New York City grocery store, Elise Mackin, 32, filled her cart with items she knows to be good for her family — whole grains, fruits and veggies — and shied away from products that contained less wholesome ingredients. "Trans fats are out," she said, "and anything with high-fructose corn syrup."

The American Medical Association recently announced at its annual policy-making meeting in Chicago that high-fructose corn syrup does not contribute more to obesity than sugar or other caloric sweeteners. Even Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has to agree. He criticized early versions of the CRA's ad campaign for its claims that high-fructose corn syrup is a "natural" product. "High-fructose corn syrup starts out as cornstarch, which is chemically or enzymatically degraded to glucose and some short polymers of glucose. Another enzyme is then used to convert varying fractions of glucose into fructose," says Jacobson. "High-fructose corn syrup just doesn't exist in nature." But he admits that the sweetener gets a bum rap. "The special harmfulness of high-fructose corn syrup has become one of those urban myths that sounds right, but is basically wrong. Nutritionally, high-fructose corn syrup and sucrose may be identical."

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Greens Keep You Thin!

Lack of Veggies Can Lead To a Life Of Obesity

July 31, 2008 - Reuters - By Terri Coles

TORONTO (Reuters) - Many teenage girls are not getting the nutrients they need to ensure healthy development, putting them at risk for weight-related problems and cardiovascular disease.

Female adolescence is an important time for setting up adult health, as nutritional needs change because of increased growth and the beginning of menstruation, said Andy Bellatti, who runs the popular nutrition blog Small Bites. But studies have shown that on average, teenage girls are not getting enough fiber, calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium or vitamins A, E and B in their diets, and are eating too much saturated fat and sodium, said Bellatti, who is also a graduate student in New York University's Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health.

"There's a lot of work that needs to be done," he said.

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The Cost of Eating in BC

The Cost of Eating in BC

Dietitians of Canada, BC Region in partnership with the Community Nutritionists Council of BC produced this 2007 report to demonstrate that some groups within our population are denied the right to safe and nutritious food due to limited financial resources. In the repot, BC dietitians call for practical and achievable solutions to poverty – to establish its reduction as an important policy goal, to base income assistance rates on actual costs of shelter, food and other necessities, to increase minimum wage and to adequately support social housing and food security initiatives.

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Calgary Bans Fat!

Calgary Cracks Down on Trans Fat - Regulations hit eateries Tuesday

Globe and Mail - December 31, 2007 - By Dawn Walton

CALGARY - That quick hit of greasy food to ease the New Year's Day hangover will come with an unexpected bonus in Calgary as the city becomes the first in Canada to regulate use of artery-clogging trans fats served in restaurants.

As of Tuesday, city eateries will not be allowed to cook with fats and oils that have more than 2-per-cent trans fats in total fat content. The same rule applies to all margarines and margarine-based spreads served in those outlets.

"That is an unacceptable health risk," Dr. Friesen told reporters, noting that cutting consumption of trans fats can help reduce the incidence of heart disease by 6 to 22 per cent, depending on what it is replaced with.

But the downside to the switch was a 20-per-cent higher price tag than the old-fashioned trans-fat-laden vegetable shortening, Ms. Derowin added.

The Calgary Health Region surveyed 400 food permit holders in the city and found the majority had already swapped the bad oils for better ones and two-thirds were using spreads that were in line with the new rules.

New York City has gone even further and was the first jurisdiction in the United States to implement an outright ban on trans fats from its restaurants. It recently found 94-per-cent compliance.

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Keywords - Healthy Eating, Trans Fat, Obesity,

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