Sugar comes in many forms – high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), sucrose, glucose, maltose, dextrose, lactose, corn syrup, white grape juice and other fruit juice concentrates, honey, barley malt, sucanet, cane sugar. Food suppliers are required to list only the total grams of sugar not whether any was added. Two factors that influence our food intake and appetite are HFCS and fiber. HFCS is different from regular sugar. It is absorbed more quickly and does not require insulin to be absorbed into the cells. Foods containing HFCS trigger none of the normal controls for appetite. It makes us even more hungry for sugar.

Artificial sweeteners – aspartame, neotame, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, sucralose, dihydorcholcones have become a significant component in our diets. Many questions of their safety remain. Known effects include stimulation of our appetite by increasing insulin production. Aspartane may disrupt brain chemistry and increase seizure risk, depression and headaches. Sorbitol, malitol, and xylitol are common nonabsorbed sugar alcohol sweetners that increase gas production, bloating and abdominal pain.

Meal composition: Not all calories are created equal. Low fat diets slow your metabolism more than low glycemic load diets.

"The Overnight Obesity Cure that giant food firms are covering up

       "You're not lazy, you're not a glutton - and you can cure the real cause instantly. Just say "no" to the make-you-fat "drug"  they're sneaking into your food! 

      "When you and I were in grade school, there might have been one heavy kid in our class. But now there might be only one kid who's not overweight. WHY?

       "A new study just concluded that 9 out of 10 adult men (and 7 in 10 women) will become overweight before they die. Even if you're fit and trim now, watch out - you're doomed to balloon. WHY?

       "Biting into a supersized burger makes you hungrier than before, even though it technically fills your belly. You can't help yourself. Suddenly, you're overcome with cravings. WHY?

       "Sure, some people lack self-control and need more exercise. But mere gluttony and laziness just can't explain this raging pandemic. It's destroying an entire generation of our kids, many of whom already have "adult" diabetes. And if we don't nail the secret culprit, someday it's probably going to kill YOU.

        "How do I know? Just ask the drug giant, Eli Lilly. As I write this, they're spending $325 million to build one of the biggest factories ever devoted to making a single drug - INSULIN. This isn't some wild bet. They see the writing on the wall.

        "What's going on? It was almost the perfect crime. Most people aren't even aware that the murderer exists!

       "HINT: It's not fat, it's not carbs and it's not refined sugar...

       "It's an addictive "designer chemical" That's killed more people than heroin. And it's silently being added to hundreds of best-selling foods - so much, that the average American swallows 56 pounds of it a year.

       "Not refined sugar! The ordinary sugar the used to be in these foods has increasingly been replaced by... THE "ANTI-DIET DRUG": High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

       "Now I realize you may have been told that fructose is "natural" and "healthier" than refined sugar (sucrose). But HFCS is neither. It's a killer in "natural" disguise. Let me lay my evidence on the table - you be the jury. 

         "FACT: HFCS is not a natural product. It's manufactured from corn starch by a process worthy of Rube Goldberg. Picture vats of murky fermenting liquid, fungus, genetically modified enzymes, ion exchange and lots more chemical tweaking, all taking place in one of 16 chemical plants located in the Corn Belt. 

        "FACT: It operates exactly like an "anti-diet pill," raising your levels of the very same make-you-fat hormones that diet pills are engineered to block....

        "FACT: It Makes your body ravenous.  Unlike table sugar, HFCS doesn't trigger the release of leptin, the substance that makes you feel full and stop eating. Worse still, it doesn't suppress the release of ghrelin, the substance that makes you hungry. That's why you can't help wanting another big burger and giant fries!

        "FACT: Department of Agriculture data directly links HFCS to skyrocketing diabetes and obesity. HFCS first entered our food supply back in the Nixon administration. Between 1970 and 1990, our intake increased by a staggering 1,000%. There's simply no other food or food group whose intake has increased so fast.

         "Conspiracy? Not originally.  The food industry started using HFCS because it's much cheaper than regular sugar. Only later did researchers find it makes you uncontrollably hungry.

         "But there's a big-time cover-up! As I write this, they're even launching a PR campaign just to deny the facts detailed above. Understandably - because HFCS is helping them sell billions of dollars worth of food you'd never crave otherwise.

         "And the great news is that avoiding this chemical could be the only "diet pill" you ever need. If you want to cure the cravings that cause obesity and diabetes overnight...

         "Starting tomorrow, just say no to HFCS. You may be amazed how quickly your weight and blood sugar problems improve....

         "...excess acidity in our modern diet is the real reason we are so overweight today....if there is too much acid in your bloodstream, it withdraws alkalinity (in the form of calcium and other minerals) from your bones to reestablish the balance. This is the real cause of osteoporosis. It does this to protect itself, because excess acid destroys tissues and organs - just the way meat dissolves in a glass of cola  So you see, you're not really overweight - you are actually over-acidic....

          "Almost all diseases (including bacteria, yeasts, infections, viruses, inflammation and tumors) thrive in an acid environment...

          "Too much acid in the bloodstream decreases its oxygen content. This not only retards repair and healing, it also slows your metabolic rate....

          "This means your food digests more slowly and incompletely, leading to putrefaction and bacteria overgrowth (such as Candida). These nasty microbes live off the food you eat and produce waste products that are unhealthy for you....

          "This creates a vicious cycle of more acidification, causing further weight gain and decreasing health. The idea of losing weight to become healthier is utterly backward. If you get healthy first (by changing your pH), your body will naturally lose weight." 

"If you don't want to look alike a cow, don't eat like one. Cattle ranchers feed their stock a steady diet of grain and vegetable matter to fatten them up for the kill. Yet when they tried including fatty foods like coconut oil, the cattle lost weight. ... Contrary to the misinformation dealt out by the media, fat does not make you fat."

Source: Dr. Douglass' Real Health Breakthroughs, Order Processing Center, P.O. Box 925, Frederick, MD 21705-9913/819 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201/The Douglass Report

"...studies show that you can actually turn off your fat genes and give yourself the metabolism of a genetically skinny person. And most amazingly of all, you can do so simply by taking two nutrients available at any health food store! The first nutrient is calcium. Dr. Michael Zemel of the University of Tennessee has discovered that human fat cells contain an obesity gene that is turned 'on' and 'off' by the presence or absence of calcium. When your calcium levels are low, the gene is turned on, causing your body to store more fat....most calcium supplements are poorly absorbed...First, make sure you take magnesium with your calcium. Second, make sure you take one of the more absorbable forms of calcium...calcium citrate....800-1500 mgs of calcium citrate per day, along with 400-1000 mgs of magnesium glycinate.

    "Getting calcium into your body will turn off one of the main obesity genes. But there are several other genes that calcium will not affect. To turn off those genes, you need to take fish oil....not only does fish oil turn off the genes that store fat, it also turns on the genes that burn fat!" 

Source: Prescriptions for Healthy Living, P.O. Box 467939, Atlanta, GA 31146, 800-791-3392 - Dr. James F. Balch - author of Prescription for Nutritional Healing (giant reference book displayed in health food stores) - I haven't subscribed to this one, but it looks better than most of them. 

"Are you artificially fat? A lot of people look 10-20 pounds heavier than they really are....It has to do with wheat sensitivity. You may know about wheat allergies or have friends on a gluten-free diet. What you may NOT know is that if you have even a mild wheat sensitivity, it can keep your intestines and stomach artificially bloated, so you look heavier around the middle. If you exercise a lot but don't have a flat stomach, this could be a big reason why. No, it is not normal for your gut to be full of air....you can also greatly reduce symptoms such as flatulence, depression, digestive problems, fatigue and migraines." 

"A recent study found that adults who regularly ate breakfast were four times less likely to be obese than people who skipped breakfast." - 

Lose weight on ordinary vinegar by Dr. David G. Williams

The "Vinegar Diet" is back - this time with medical research to prove that it works - by lowering your blood sugar. Not only is this the easiest way to trim your belly, but new studies show it PREVENTS and RELIEVES DIABETES, too...

Participants in the study were given a two-tablespoon dose of ordinary vinegar before each meal. At the end of the short study, people who took the vinegar had actually lost weight - up to one pound a week! The weight of the participants in the control group, who got no vinegar, stayed the same or actually increased.

...The vinegar cut people's post-meal blood glucose spike in half within the first hour. Those with diabetes averaged a 25 percent drop in their blood sugar levels!

Eggs: Perfect for weight loss!... When overweight and obese women ate eggs for breakfast, they consumed 686 FEWER calories at lunch compared to women who ate a bagel-based breakfast. They also ate less food over the next 24 hours without feeling hungry or suffering from food cravings...