How To Become A Lardassian

This morning I was eating breakfast at one
of my regular breakfast joints, and I noticed
that almost everyone who came through the
door was fat. I'm not going to sugarcoat it
by saying that some of the people might
have been a smidge overweight. They were
at least 5-10 smidges over the line if my eyes
didn't deceive me.

I don't think they did, because at least two
people had to sit at a table instead of a booth,
because they couldn't park their carcass in a
booth without getting stuck.

Why are people getting fatter and fatter?

I can give you three big reasons.

(There are many more.)

But these are the three main culprits.

1) High Fructose Corn Syrup
2) Trans Fats
3) Lack of Exercise

Today I'm going to examine number one, HFCS.

HFCS is a highly processed chemically altered
sweetener created by a Japanese scientist in a
lab in 1971, and has been used in almost all
packaged and processed food ever since.

The use of HFCS has increased 1000% since
its introduction in 1971. It is in almost everything
packaged.

If you don't believe me, try this little exercise. Go
to your regular grocery, and do your regular
shopping. However, you cannot buy anything with
HFCS listed as an ingredient. For most of you, that's
going to mean your cart is only going to have a few
items in it when you go to check out. If you added
HFCS and trans fats together, and couldn't take
home anything with either ingredient, your cart
would have even less in it.

That means you would have proteins, meat, poultry,
and fish, plus fruits and vegetables. In other words,
healthy food. If you stuck to those items, you would
start to lose weight immediately, even without exercise.

Consider this: The average American consumes 440
12 ounce cans of soda a year. That's an extra 100
calories at a minumum every day, and loosely
translated it means you can gain an extra 10 pounds
a year just from soda consumption, which is loaded
with HFCS.

HFCS is bad news baby!

It also increases your appetite. It does this
with a little slight of hand. If you eat a piece
of fruit for instance, there is a chemical reaction
sent to the brain that you are full.

That doesn't happen with any food that contains
HFCS. It doesn't send that very important signal,
so you become a buffet molester, eating, eating,
and eating some more. And sooner rather than later,
you're what I call a Lardassian.

High fructose corn syrup is in almost all packaged
food. Cookies, pastry, cakes, candy, ice cream,
chips, pretzels; you name it, it's there. And where
HFCS and trans fats are found together, you're
getting a double whammy.

HFCS and trans fats can be found in the diet of
almost patients with:

Heart disease
Diabetes
Insulin Resistance
Impaired Metabolism
Unexplained Weight Gain
High Cholesterol
High Blood Pressure

The bottom line is simple:

Avoid HFCS like the plague.

Stop drinking soda, or at the very least
reduce it. Don't switch to diet soda, that is
another deadly sin I'll talk about later.

Eat real food, not food that comes in
packages.

Limit your intake of all sugars. (This
doesn't mean don't eat fruit.) It can mean
don't drink processed fruit juice, you're
going to have to read the label.

Avoiding HFCS has helped friends of mine
lose a lot of weight, without even making an
\effort. They just substituted good food for
bad. Eliminate HFCS and trans fats, and half
the weight battle is over. Then get moving,
walking, swimming, biking, and if possible, do
it outdoors, and get some sun, which gives you
Vitamin D, which almost everyone could use
more of.

From the big saddle,

Jim Whelan
Chairman of the Board

P.S. Don't count the Rays out!

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