NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published May 12 2004
Diabetes and obesity linked to the consumption of high fructose corn
syrup and refined sugars
by Mike Adams

New research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
links diabetes with the rise in consumption of high fructose corn
syrup. By examining the consumption of food macronutrients (fats,
proteins and carbohydrates) consumed by the population from 1909 to
1997, researchers were able to correlate, with startling clarity, the
rise of diabetes with the consumption of refined sugars and
carbohydrates.
A long list of nutritionists and naturopaths (myself included) have
been telling the public about this correlation for years. It's nice to
see additional epidemiological research to back up the trend. So what
does it all mean? For starters, it means that the low-fat diet crazy of
the 1980's was all wrong. When doctors and the American Heart
Association told people to avoid fat, people consumed massive
quantities of refined sugars, causing an acceleration of chronic
diseases like obesity and diabetes (which, of course, have terrible
implications for heart health as well).

It also means that the current efforts by the Bush Administration and
the sugar industry to claim that carbohydrates don't promote disease
are, of course, hogwash. Due to business interests, the Bush
Administration has been pressuring the World Health Organization to
avoid recommending that people around the world eat less refined sugar.
You see, the United States is the world's largest exporter of
high-sugar, disease-promoting foods and drinks such as soft drinks and
candy bars. If the world is told to eat less sugar, that will not only
make everyone healthier and save billions of dollars in annual health
care costs, it will also hurt the profits of a few influential
companies and organizations in the United States. So, of course, they
can't allow the world to be told to eat less sugar, which is why Big
Sugar has harshly criticized anyone who explains that refined white
sugar is bad for you. That's food politics at work.

Lastly, it also means that the #1 cause of disease and death in the
United States is, in fact, our national food supply. It is our foods
that are killing us, and the studies prove it. If we weren't eating
such high quantities of high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils,
aspartame, sodium nitrite, MSG and other metabolic disruptors, we'd all
be far healthier today. In fact, if we ate what previous generations
ate, our levels of chronic disease would plummet to the levels observed
in the 1940's and 1950's.

And yet, today we have the opportunity to be far healthier than our
grandparents simply because we have access to miracle-class sources of
outstanding nutrition. These "superfoods" include chlorella, spirulina,
flax oil, wheat grass, quinoa and many others. We have access to these
today at affordable prices, allowing us to enhance our health in ways
our grandparents never could have imagined.

It is sad, indeed, that the American public is now experiencing more
chronic disease than at any time in recorded human history. We've done
it to ourselves, and we've done it by allowing soft drink vendors to
invade our schools, by allowing the sugar industry to control the White
House, by allowing food companies to sell milled grains (like white
flour) that lack any notable nutrition, by falling for the bad
nutritional science promoted by the AHA, ADA and FDA, and by
subsidizing both the corn and sugar industries with hundreds of
millions of dollars that ultimately have the effect of making junk
foods far cheaper than healthy foods.

We've done all this to ourselves, folks, and the vast majority of it
has been done in order to protect the profits of a few influential
organizations. But the ultimate cost is widespread chronic disease and
billions of dollars in associated health care costs.

It's time to do something different. Join the Consumer Wellness
Research Center and become part of the growing effort to ban soft
drinks in our nations schools, end taxpayer subsidies to sugar
companies, create an internal affairs department at the FDA, and hold
food companies responsible for the diseases their products directly
cause. And, of course, don't eat refined carbohydrates or processed
foods if you want to avoid chronic disease.

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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3796/is_1991_Sept/ai_11917708

Introduction

The U.S. soft drink industry is the largest single industrial user of
sweeteners (high fructose corn syrup [HFCS], low calorie sweeteners,
and sugar). Soft drink consumption in the United States is currently at
record levels and prospects for continued growth during the 1990's are
good, especially for the diet sector. U.S. soft drink consumption in
1990 totaled 47.4 gallons per person or 26.0 percent of total beverage
disappearance. This contrasts sharply with 1980 and 1970 when soft
drink consumption was estimated at 34.1 and 22.7 gallons per person,
respectively (figure D-1). Much of the nearly 40 percent growth in per
capita soft drink use during the 1980's was spurred by the expansion of
diet products sweetened with low-calorie sweeteners, primarily
aspartame. Volume growth in the regular (nutritive or caloric) soft
drink market was less dramatic. But the sweeteners used in regular soft
drinks changed significantly as bottlers, to a large degree, switched
from sugar to HFCS. Prospects are strong that the 1990's will also be a
decade of continued growth as well as change. Higher per-capita soft
drink use levels are forecast for the expanding U.S. population that is
expected to top 268 million by the year 2000. Moreover, changing
sweetener price structures, the availability of new sweeteners, and
opportunities for increased blending of sweeteners, illustrate why the
soft drink market should continue as the pace setter for aggregate
sweetener demand in the United States. However, the mix of sweeteners
demanded is likely to be different.

Soft Drink Market--Recent Developments and Current Situation

According to the Beverage Industry report, soft drink sales increased
3.0 percent in 1990 over the preceding year (2, 11, 19).(2/) Nearly all
of the sales growth came from diet and caffeine-free products, up 8.9
percent and 15.9 percent, respectively, over 1989. Without diet
products, 1990 sales would have been up less than 1 percent. Total soft
drink case volume for 1990 is estimated at 7.9 billion cases with diet
soft drinks accounting for 29 percent or 13.9 gallons per capita (table
D-1).(3/) Examining soft drink statistics over time provides some
signposts as to the direction the market will likely take in the 1990's
and in turn the demand implications for sweeteners.

* 1970's--Diet Stagnates, Regular Flourishes. America,

during the 1970's, had a soft drink market which grew at

an average annual rate of 4.9 percent per year. The

decade began with per capita soft drink use at 22.7

gallons (3.1 billion cases) and ended the decade at 33.3

gallons per capita (5.0 billion cases). Regular soft drinks

sweetened with sugar accounted for much of this growth.

Diet usage declined initially, as the Food and Drug

Administration's (FDA) ban on cyclamate in late 1969

left saccharin as the only low-calorie sweetener for soft

drinks. The sector rebounded later in the decade because

of consumer acceptance of reformulated diet soft drinks

(table D-1). * 1980's--Diet Expands; Regular Growth Slows. In the

1980's, the total soft drink market increased an average of

3.5 percent annually, but the diet sector jumped nearly 11

percent per year. Per capita soft drink use began the

decade at 34.1 gallons, and ended the decade at 47.5

gallons, a 39 percent increase (table D-2). During the last

decade U.S. population grew by 25 million to 250 million. Regular soft
drinks sweetened primarily with sugar in the early 1980's, then HFCS
after 1984, increased from 29.2 gallons per capita in 1980 to 33.6
gollons in 1990. Diet expansion was even more dramatic, jumping from
4.9 gallons per capita in 1980 to 13.9 gallons in 1990. Growth was
particularly strong after 1984 when the low-calorie sweetener,
aspartame, was approved by FDA for use in soft drinks. Bottlers found
that consumers readily accepted aspartame. This, coupled with increased
emphasis during the 1980's on diet or "light" foods and beverages,
helped spawn the growth of a revitalized diet soft drink market (figure
D-2).

Sweeteners in Soft Drinks--Composition and Use Levels

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040917091452.htm

US Soft Drink Consumption Grew 135% Since 1977, Boosting Obesity
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could be to cut the volume of sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks
Americans are increasingly consuming, authors of new study say.

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The study, conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, showed that energy intake from such drinks in the United States
increased 135 percent between about 1977 and 2001. Over the same span,
energy intake from milk -- a far more nutritious beverage -- dropped 38
percent.

A report on the research appears today (Sept.16) in the October issue
of the American Journal of Preventive Health. Authors, both at the UNC
schools of public health and medicine, are Dr. Barry M. Popkin,
professor of nutrition and a fellow at the Carolina Population Center,
and nutrition graduate student Samara Joy Nielsen.

"There has been considerable controversy about the promotion of soft
drinks in schools and elsewhere," Popkin said. "Extensive research on
all age groups has shown that consuming these soft drinks and fruit
drinks increases weight gain in children and adults."

One recent study even showed a link between high consumption of sweet
beverages and a greatly increased risk of diabetes, he said.

"Our new study highlights the fact that Americans in 2001 consumed more
energy from sugared beverages in larger portions and more servings per
day than in 1977," Popkin said. "The increases in soft drinks noted in
the past continue unabated into the new millennium. The decreased
intake of milk is possibly related to this change in energy intake from
beverages and is a negative trend because of the deficient calcium
intake of Americans."

The study used nationally representative data to quantify changes in
Americans' beverage consumption patterns specifically, the increases in
sweetened beverages and decreases in milk over 24 years, he said. The
sample consisted of 73,345 U.S. residents age 2 and older.

Data analyzed came from the federally funded 1977-1978 Nationwide Food
Consumption Survey, the 1989 and 1994-1996 Continuing Surveys of Food
Intake by Individuals and the 1991-2001 National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey.

"For each survey year, we calculated the percentage of total energy
intake from meals and snacks separately for people age 2 to 18, 19 to
39, 40 to 59 and 60 and over," Popkin said. "We also computed the
percentage of energy intake by location such as homes, vending
machines, fast food restaurants, regular restaurants and schools for
each age group and for specific beverages. We also determined
proportions, average portion sizes and number of servings daily."

Between 1977 and 2001, the study discovered that:

? Total energy derived from soft drinks each day rose on average from
2.8 percent to 7 percent, nearly a tripling of calories.

? Energy intake from fruit drinks per person grew from 1.1 percent to
2.2 percent.

? Milk supplied 5 percent of energy for all age groups, down from 8
percent over the 24 years.

? Changes in intake of other beverages such as tea, coffee, alcohol
and fruit juices were minor for all age groups.

"The largest drop in milk consumption, from 13.2 percent of total
energy to 8.3 percent, occurred in 2- to 18-year-olds," Popkin said.
"Milk consumption played a much smaller role in total energy intake
among all other age groups."

Young adults ages 19 to 39 drank the most soft drinks, increasing their
intake from 4.1 percent to 9.8 percent of total daily calorie
consumption during the period, he said. Servings of sweetened beverages
increased for every age group, while servings of milk decreased for
all.

"We found that the average number of soft drink servings per day
climbed from 1.96 in 1977 to 2.39 in 2001," Popkin said. "The largest
drop in milk servings occurred among 2- to 18-year-olds, which is
obviously not good."

Also during the period, he said, portions of sweetened beverages drunk
jumped from 13.6 ounces to 21 ounces, on average, among all age groups.
In the 19- to 39-year-old age group, portions increased from 15.3
ounces to 25.5 ounces. As consumed during mealtimes, the number of
calories derived from milk fell from 127 to 82 over the 24 years.

The new study corroborates earlier research showing that soft drink
consumption is rising and is a significant contributor to total caloric
intake, Popkin said. The new work explores the trends and provides a
much more detailed examination of them.

A limitation of the study is that people who are overweight are more
likely than others to under-report how much they eat and drink, he
said.

"Due to increases in under-reporting, it is likely that the current
estimates of beverage consumption were too low and that sweet beverages
played a larger role in Americans' diets," Popkin said. "Little
research has focused on the beneficial impacts of reduced soft drink
and fruit drink intake. This would seem to be one of the simpler ways
to reduce obesity in the United States."

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For men, the percentage of kcals from carbohydrate increased between
1971--1974 and 1999--2000, from 42.4% to 49.0% (p<0.01), and for women,
from 45.4% to 51.6% (p<0.01) (Table). The percentage of kcals from
total fat decreased from 36.9% to 32.8% (p<0.01) for men and from 36.1%
to 32.8% (p<0.01) for women. In addition, the percentage of kcals from
saturated fat decreased from 13.5% to 10.9% (p<0.01) for men and from
13.0% to 11.0% (p<0.01) for women.

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TC

If you are trying to present yourself as a Medical Professional it would be
a good idea to learn when to use the words lose, loss, loose, loses and
losses. It's a common error on the internet but not one a professional
should make.

tkdiabetes wrote in message
<1166470650.599850.284750@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>...

Actually,  there are far, far, far better books out there,  written by
actual medical professionals.   Two of many:

"The First Year Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed"
by Gretchen Becker

"Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal
Blood Sugars Revised & Updated" by Richard K. Bernstein

Most of the better public libraries carry them.

Regards
 Old Al

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