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I regularly notice examples of outrageous (but popular) grocery products deceiving consumers. slim-fast meal replacement powder, which is positioned as a weight loss product, has sugar as its top ingredient. So-called "natural" Doritos is made with yeast extract, an ingredient classified as an excitotoxin by Dr. Russell Blaylock, and one that always contains MSG according to a number of health researchers. I once saw a Quik strawberry milk product, made primarily with table sugar, that actually claimed to be good for kids' bones because it contains some calcium.

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America rises in the morning, uses an electric toothbrush and coffeemaker, and then has a meal in a can (such as slim-fast) or visits a drive-in window. Buttons open his car and garage doors. In his car he uses power steering and brakes, a switch rather than a crank to open the window, and a button rather than a dial to tune the radio. Adjusting the outside mirrors no longer requires a reach. At work he uses an elevator rather than stairs, a computer rather than a typewriter, E-mail rather than walking to speak with a colleague, and a hard disk rather than a file cabinet to store information.

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I tried slim-fast, too. After a while I was getting really hungry from just drinking shakes, and so I went back to my regular eating habits. On my own, I decided to do salads only. That didn't work, either—I didn't have enough willpower. I would get even hungrier after eating a salad. I'm Spanish, so we were raised on Spanish foods, which tend to have a lot of fat. I had to cut down on that stuff, fried foods especially. But every time I went a month or two eating healthy foods, I would crave my traditional dishes. Pork in the oven with rice, fried plantains, fried chicken.

Consumption of soft drinks and high-fructose corn syrup linked to obesity and diabetes Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So, perhaps, they will give me a study showing that high-fructose corn syrup actually causes people to slim down and maybe, in fact, that's where the makers of slim-fast got their idea of having the number one ingredient in their product be sugar. Maybe high-fructose corn syrup is a slimming agent and we've all been misled all these years into thinking that sugar makes you fat. Then again, let's think about this for a moment. What do farmers feed cows when they want to fatten them up for market? Corn, of course!

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In 2000, Unilever purchased Bestfoods soon after acquiring Ben & Jerry's and slim-fast. General Mills bought the Pillsbury division of Diageo, making the combined company the fifth largest of U.S. foodmakers, with $12.2 billion in annual sales. Danone was not among the top 200 U.S. advertisers in 1998, because the company's principal markets are in Europe. Economic pressures force food and beverage companies to expand to tremendous size. In 2000, seven U.S. companies—Philip Morris, ConAgra, Mars, IBP, Sara Lee, Heinz, and Tyson Foods—ranked among the ten largest food companies in the world.

Advisory Committee3 Dairy industry groups Dannon Company (yogurt) National Dairy Council National Dairy Promotion and Research Board Mead Johnson Nutritionals (milk-based infant formulas) Nestle (milk-based formulas, condensed milk, and ice cream) slim-fast (milk-based diet products) Egg industry groups The American Egg Board Meat industry groups The American Meat Institute National Livestock and Beef Board aAffiliations include service as visiting lecturer, scientific advisory board member, trustee, grant recipient, grant review committee member, symposium organizer, or author.

Sponsors of nutrition journals include such companies as Coca-Cola, Gerber, Nestle/Carnation, Monsanto, Procter & Gamble, Roche Vitamins, slim-fast Foods, and the Sugar Association, as well as others that make baby food or formula, vitamin supplements, functional foods, diet products, sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals, and genetically modified crops—virtually all of them products with nutritional attributes considered controversial and currently under debate.

The Distilled Spirits Council, for example, sponsored a session on the risks and health benefits of alcohol consumption, slim-fast sponsored talks on obesity prevention and treatment, the company that makes Benecol margarine underwrote a session on its cholesterol-lowering ingredient, and Quaker/Gatorade supported lectures on athletes' dietary supplements. Does sponsorship influence the content of conference sessions? In my experience, speakers at sponsored sessions are offended by such a question.

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In its survey, Consumer Reports found that most people prefer slim-fast, Dynatrim, and Jenny Craig, and stay with them for about six months. During that time they lose 10 to 20 percent of their starting weight; within six months they regain half of that weight back, within two years they gain two thirds of it back, and within five years they regain 95 percent of the initial weight they lost. If you choose to lose weight on your own, chances are you'll drop about ten pounds and find it easier and less expensive than going commercial.

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