. Studies with rats show that your body really does know the difference between sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.

GAINING WEIGHT?

High Fructose Corn Syrup And ObesityBy Dee Takemoto Joanne McIntyre

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2012 Dee Takemoto, Ph.D. and Joanne McIntyre, R.D.C.S
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-4359-8

Contents

Introduction.........................................................vCHAPTER 1. 140 IS THE NEW 110 –................................1"Gaining Weight?"....................................................1Vanity Sizing........................................................4Kids Too?............................................................7"Food" Additives.....................................................8CHAPTER 2. READ THE LABEL!...........................................11Salt.................................................................11Carbs, and, I Love Dessert!..........................................17Eating For Health....................................................21Zits.................................................................23Beware of Blue Food!.................................................25What is Cheese-Food?.................................................29Ramen Noodles........................................................31My Food Comes in Plastic.............................................32CHAPTER 3. DOES YOUR BODY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?.......................37HFCS vs Sucrose (Table Sugar)........................................37Where Does The Stuff Come from?......................................42What Does HFCS Do to ME?.............................................44Are We, In Fact, Getting Fatter?.....................................45Fat Rats and People Too..............................................50What Controls my Appetite?...........................................50OK, But, What Controls my Appetite?..................................52A Couple of Research Results.........................................54Fat Rats.............................................................56But I Drink Diet Sodas!..............................................58Aspartame, a Toxic Sweetener.........................................59CHAPTER 4. METABOLIC SYNDROME........................................61What Happens if I Keep Eating It?....................................61CHAPTER 5. YOU CAN DO IT! HERE'S HOW.................................75Month #1 - Fast Food Eating..........................................77Month #2 – Your Kitchen Fast Turnovers.........................79Month #3 – Replacing the Slow Moving Items.....................80Month #4 – The Replacement Package.............................80CHAPTER 6. APPENDIX..................................................83Caloric Intake Assignment............................................93Ingredients Assignment...............................................94Label Assignment.....................................................96References...........................................................99About The Authors....................................................103

Chapter One

140 IS THE NEW 110 –

"Gaining Weight?"

Last summer my sister and I were painting in my studio in the backyard, commenting on this and that. We got around to health issues since she has been teaching in that area, to college students, for about 32 years. Both of us always struggle to keep our weight down, and, had been discussing the trend in weight gains among students. She told me about her students who had lost weight by just giving up high fructose corn syrup. Thus, the idea for this book was hatched. I begin with a story about my son.

Last year, my son had been searching a popular free dating website and was growing discouraged by the fact that prospects were worse in the smaller city where he was now living. My husband suggested to him that he just let me take over, for him, on the site. To our surprise he agreed. Being his mother, of course I looked at all the best looking women who said all the right things. I was thinking about having beautiful grandchildren and being able to get along well with my future daughter-in-law. I was also worried about the fact that he was looking a lot at women from outside of his geographic area, because he could find women that were more girlish looking for their ages. I didn't want him to drive too far, after all, I am his mom.

The few women that he had dated previously were hard to talk to because they weren't accustomed to our family habit of sarcastic humor. They did appear, however, to be slimmer and more feminine than the group of women listed on the website as living nearer to him.

I've struggled to maintain a normal weight all my life, due to some social and family pressure, of course, but probably mostly due to the fact that, growing up in southern California in the 1960's, the men all wanted a woman who weighed less than 120 pounds. There were so many fat jokes among the men that we were afraid to gain a single pound. Those same men could grow a huge beer gut and feel they were still "Mr. Macho". But we couldn't.

If a young woman ever wanted to sample all the holiday treats, she would have to diet the week before or the week after the party to make sure her husband or boyfriend wouldn't be able to say anything about the obvious three pounds that she had gained. I remember my older sister fasting for four or five days before Thanksgiving so that she could eat anything that she wanted. The problem with that approach is that, when you fast like that, your stomach gets used to it and, when you try to eat a lot, you fill up too fast. And, you get full even before the dessert comes!

Even after having three children, I was expected to stay thin. I remember a couple of times that I gained five pounds over the holidays and thought that my favorite pants had gotten shrunk in the dryer. I couldn't get the button hole over to the button and was appalled at the little mounds of fat between the two sides of my jeans zipper. Looking back at my old photos, when my friends and I were in our mid 30's, and had two or three children, I can see that we all looked like we weighed around 115 lbs. But most of us still felt fat and we were trying to get down to that ever elusive 110.

So, for my son, I was looking for a female, 30 to 40 years old who was, in the terms used on the website, "thin or athletic". To my surprise, all the athletic women appeared, in their pictures, to be overweight. The weirdest part, to me, was that the obese women, (according to the body mass index chart), thought that they were only a few pounds overweight, and, those that looked overweight classified themselves as average. And, the athletic girls looked, at least to my son, like they had better go to the gym two more times a week.

Since I know how easy it is to gain weight when you get pregnant, (yes, I was thinking of grandchildren) I wanted my future daughter-in-law to be a normal weight to begin with. So, at that point, being a determined mom, I decided to do an advanced search. This time I specified "thin." I was amazed to see that, with a couple of other specifications, such as a "nonsmoker" and someone between 5 foot and 5 foot 8 inches tall, the search, within a 10 mile area, came up with zero. I broadened the search to 25 miles, then to 50, and then to 100, and finally came up with two ladies. Los Angeles was within that 100 mile area! What happened to us?

In the next few weeks, I started looking around at the beach where my husband and I take walks on the weekends. This was southern California;...