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- There is a breakthrough in fast food (otherwise considered junk food). On Long Island in New York, Willie Degel is starting to revolutionize the way people eat fast food. JACK'S SHACK, WWW.JACKSSHACK.COM offers food without chemicals, no steroids, no antibiotics, no hormones, no nitrates, no preservatives. The food is quality sourced, locally sourced whenver possible---with all sources identified. As another example, JACK'S SHACK does not sell Coke or Pepsi, but beverages with high quality, pure, natural ingredients. Willie Degel wants to see people eat healthy and make good diet choices.
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- The media is a business , they make there money from selling advertisements. The bigger the audience, the more money they they can charge. There job is not to inform you, but to make money!! Don't buy into everything that is reported. Sometimes they have to make a story.
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- I was waiting to comment here on this important issue... but these comments already are surprisingly timely and accurate. You took most of the words right out of my mouth. You people are spot on! Well, buck to reading the book "Wheat Belly."
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- We have been eating sugar forever. Anything in excess is probably not good for you. I really wish they would stop telling us what to eat. If you are stupid enough to eat too much sugar, than that is your fault.
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- Great job Dr Lustig. 60 minutes should do a follow up story regarding dietary fats. Americans have reduced dietary saturated fat since the McGovern report in 1977 and yet obesity, diabetes and heart disease are on the rise. Maybe these chronic diseases has very little to do with saturated fats and more to do with dietary carbohydrates! Dr Jeff Gerber http://denversdietdoctor.com
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- Yup. 75% of ALL medical COST comes down to *chronic*, (note that word..) diet-related illness.
HFCS is the root of the American junk-food, refined product diet and it's no wonder that medical costs are so high.
The uninsured have little to do with this - the majority of cost, being *chronic* is more likely the result of the average ~insured~ American thinking that vigilance in what they eat isn't required anymore since they're "covered", and they can (and do) abuse themselves with food because after all.. the doctor will 'fix' it.. right?
Right?
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- For decades, people working in remote highly hazardous jobs, where absolutely positively no alcohol is allowed, are fed lots of sugary foods. Anyone who works at a detox facility knows that addicts coming clean crave sugar. And the fact that sugar is addictive and affects the brain the same as alcohol and drugs is NEW NEWS???
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- This segment made me laugh...
Dr. Atkins covered all this about 20 years ago.
But the medical and media community made him out to be a quack even though he had studies including his own patients, history of the food supply and not to mention common sense.
Dr. Atkins as well as the book The Sugar Blues exposed the problem with food processing, the anti fat dietary guidelines and the government's subsidy of high fructose corn syrup business long ago.
It's good to see some other Doctors finally coming around to the OBVIOUS.
Duh.
We didn't become obese America from eating fat. It's the sugar/high fructose corn syrup added to everything.
And by the way, your body requires fat in it's diet to function properly. It's all the sugar we eat that is converted to fat that is making us obese... more than the fat in our diet.
Just as we are to politics, we are blind to the obvious and keep making the same mistakes over and over.
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- Nice segnment. I think things are WAY too sweet most of the time, especially cereal which is AWFUL. Even the ones that aren't pre-sweetned are way to sugary for me. Then there's salt. I HATE salty foods and everything you buy has WAY too much salt unless you look for products that say "no salt added". Convenience foods are nice, espcially for those who work and have little time for meal preparation but the manufacturers of these products don't have any concern for the health of ocnsumers.
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- Humm, isn't this what Dr. Atkins said back in the early 70's too? He was totally put down and called a quack. Finally he has been vindicated.
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