Word: sugar
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Could a contributing factor to childhood obesity and diabetes be the amount of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup consumed? I recently saw a photo of a high school lunch table littered with soda and sports-drink bottles. When I was in school (in the 1970s), the only drink available at lunch was milk. Why don't schools get rid of all the soda, candy and sports-drink vending machines? GREGORY HOYT Reading, Mass...
...natural, less-processed foods and should take drugs only as a last resort. I'm referring not just to fast foods but also to the majority of highly processed food staples found on grocery-store shelves. In today's mass-marketed brands there is a great deal of hidden sugar--not to mention unnecessary preservatives and saturated fat--that most people are blind to. Consumers are taken in by glossy packaging and big ad campaigns and buy foods without reading the ingredients. They will be delighted by how good natural foods can taste. KRIS SPENCER Royal Oak, Mich...
...soon as presidential strategist Karl Rove realizes the damage caused the President by his absence from memorial services, a funeral will be found somewhere for Bush to attend. LANCE COLLINS Sugar Land, Texas
...knew that Howard Dean was such a sugar-tongued swain? Al Gore's televised "I do" last week (not to be confused with Trista and Ryan's more lavish and much higher-rated nuptials) was the culmination of a secret but ardent yearlong courtship by Dean. Yes, it may be a marriage of convenience, but the hushed backroom cell-phone calls, the clandestine visits, the little apercus of agreement on global warming are all part of a modern political romance novel. Apparently the doctor has a bedside manner after all. But the relationship did not really get serious until Gore...
...just a couple of weeks in kitchens across America, kids will make their annual cameo appearance beside the Mixmaster, the flour sifter and the (Careful! Don't burn yourself!) oven. They will savor batter, stamp out cookies, sprinkle colored sugar and manage to grease and flour just about every square inch of the kitchen. Parents' nerves will be baked to a crisp...