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Fedorchalk's diet was abysmal. She skipped breakfast, ate lunch at school - usually chicken strips and fries - and frequently had dinner at McDonald's: a burger and more fries. She drank nondiet soda and snacked on potato chips and Little Debbie cakes. She never exercised because, between school and extracurricular activities, she claimed she didn't have time. "It got to where I didn't like sports anymore," Fedorchalk says. "I'd get out of breath and get upset because mentally I wanted to do so much, but physically I couldn't." She gained 45 lb. in 2009 alone...
...Percentage of caloric intake that Americans get from added sugars--nearly half of which comes from nondiet soft drinks...
...hormone. But some of your best allies in this struggle are your muscles. Building them up and using them regularly in such pursuits as walking or dancing draw more glucose out of the bloodstream and increase insulin's efficiency. It also pays to avoid easily digested foods--like chips, nondiet soda and other junk food--which require large amounts of insulin to metabolize. Finally, losing a little weight usually makes insulin's job a lot easier...
...drinking cans or bottles of ordinary soda pop (which contain about 100 calories, v. no calories for the diet soda). The results of all these comparative calculations were decidedly in favor of the saccharin-spiked drinks. Says Cohen: "If all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced...
...This nondiet is clearly not for everyone. About 20% of those who sign up eventually drop out. Others have occasional lapses, like yielding to the temptation of an ice cream sundae, though most seem to lose their appetites entirely. A few complain of dizziness, dry skin and hair loss in the first weeks. But if they can endure, the fasting pays off. Vertes says that of the more than 750 patients who have been treated, some 80% have lost at least 80 lbs.-to say nothing of such benefits as the reduction of blood sugar in diabetics or the lowering...