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This article fails to make a distinction between sugar and high fructose corn syrup, which is a "cheap" alternative to sugar and found in most processed food products today. High fructose corn syrup is nasty stuff and they seem to put it in everthing these days. But whether you are talking about sugar or HFCS, you are talking carbohydrates. This is what is making America fat (our increasingly sedentary lifestyles only making a bad situation worse).

Sugars are almost always found in processed foods in large quantities. Especially foods that are labeled "low-fat." Having lost 44 pounds since April 1, I have started paying much more attention to food labels. I was surprised, for instance, to find high fructose corn syrup as a major ingredient in even my barbeque sauce. As a result, I have eliminated virtually all processed foods from my diet and this has accelerated my weight loss.

But instead of being obsessed with sugars (carbohydrates), our society is obsessed with fats. It is almost amusing to watch, as I have lost my 44 pounds while having all the things that the "fat" police try to warn us about. Eggs, steaks, pork, sardines, dark chicken meat, etc. I eat all that stuff and I don't bother taking the skin off the chicken or trimming the fat from the beef. I especially don't eat "egg whites." Who the heck came up with the idea that you should discard the best part of the egg? I also use butter instead of margarine and plenty of olive oil, also high in fat.

Now my diet is not the Atkins plan but simply a modified version of it. For example, I will still have rice from time to time and I still have my nightly two beers. But I have cut back on carbs drastically and it has made all the difference. I also walk several miles a day for exercise.

We have been drinking the Michelobe Ultra with only 2.6 gr. of carbohydrates. It actually tastes better than a lot of other light beers, but not as good as Sam Adams light.

Now my diet is not the Atkins plan but simply a modified version of it. For example, I will still have rice from time to time and I still have my nightly two beers.

Actually, on the Atkins diet, you eventually get to the stage where carbs like rice and beer are perfectly acceptable, in controlled amounts. It is only during the weight loss stages of Atkins that such items are verboten.

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.... This is what is making America fat (our increasingly sedentary lifestyles only making a bad situation worse)......

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Man was made to eat proteins and fats, just think of what the Indians ate in your area from October - May every year: animals. I've had these sites on a wordpad.doc for a while from posting to other bulletin boards. We weren't made to eat processed wheats and other carbs. Many soda's used to contain sugar, now it's high fructose corn syrup, big difference. The rise in Insulin makes you fat, no just calories as we have beed led to believe.

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