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December 18, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet Part 6:  Fructose:  America’s Most Dangerous Food Competency # 11 Sugar                         Reference: Review Article, American Journal Clinical Nutrition, Nov 2007Sugar is killing us!   Ok, ok.  It’s just a hypothesis.  But it’s the lead article in the prestigious American Journal… Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet Part 6: Fructose: America’s Most Dangerous Food

December 12, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet:  Part 5,  Sucralose, the “Yellow Stuff”   Competency # 11 Sugar Reference: Neuroimage.  20008 Feb 15; 39(4):1559-69. Sucralose.  Made from sugar, tastes like sugar.  End the word with –ose and that means, to us chemistry majors, that it’s a sugar.  Dextose, glucose, sucrose are all sugars.  How about sucralose. … Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet: Part 5, Sucralose, the “Yellow Stuff”

December 08, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet:  Part 4: The “Blue Stuff” Aspartame   Competency # 11 Sugar                                   Reference:  Sweet Deceptionby Dr. Mercola  We have all been assaulted by internet mail every couple months or so that circulate around stating that… Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet: Part 4: The “Blue Stuff” Aspartame

December 01, 2007 Resistance Training:  What’s That? The Battle Against Sarcopenia   Competency # 4 Activity                                Reference: (Circulation. 2007;116:572-584.)  Resistance Exercise in Individuals With and Without Cardiovascular Disease: 2007 Update  I can’t learn to exercise if I don’t know the facts.  How… Continue reading Resistance Training: What’s That? The Battle Against Sarcopenia

November 15, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet:  Part III Saccharin – “The Pink Stuff”   Competency # 11 Sugar               Reference: Sweet Deception by Dr. Mercola   We’ve talked glucose (our bodies gasoline), sucrose (table sugar and over a hundred pounds a year), fructose (natural sugar in fruit but problematic in purer forms and… Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet: Part III Saccharin – “The Pink Stuff”

November 07, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet:  Part 2  Fructose and HFCSs   Competency: # Sugar                       Reference: Dr. Chi-Tang Ho’s Presentation to the American Chemical Society, reported August 28th.   Let’s tackle fructose.  What is it?  It is a single sugar molecule, a cousin of glucose (your body’s… Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet: Part 2 Fructose and HFCSs

November 02, 2007 The Trouble with Sweet:  Part 1   Competency # 11 Sugar Reference:   Dr. Chi-Tang Ho’s Presentation to the American Chemical Society on Corn Sweeteners, reported August 28th   This is a complex topic.  I’m changing the sweeteners I use and just about everywhere I go, people ask me, “What’s the good sweetener?  The pink one,… Continue reading The Trouble with Sweet: Part 1

October 15, 2007 Move Dem Bones   Competency # 4 Activity                          Reference: Karsenty et al, Cell, August 2007   Those old dry bones of yours may have a very interesting role to play in keeping you healthy.  You thought your bones were all about holding your… Continue reading Move Dem Bones

October 03, 2007 Salt’s at Fault   Competency # 16  Minerals                           Reference: He, Ogden et al JAMA, Dec 1999;  Cook and Cutler:  BMJ April 20, 2007   Let’s talk salt.  It’s one of America’s four main food groups: the others being chocolate, sugar, and fat.  And that’s… Continue reading Salt’s at Fault

September 10, 2007 Interesterified Fats: A New Form of Fat Poison   Competency # 13 Fats                           Reference: Sundram et al, Nutrition & Metabolism 2007, 4:16 (12 July 2007) http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521041/ (Web site for monkey research on trans fats)   Interesterified?  That should be something to do with ”interested” and “terrified”.  We should… Continue reading Interesterified Fats: A New Form of Fat Poison