For Immediate Release - How to Save Your Life in 2010? Forget the Fake Sweeteners!
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 2:24PM From: Idea Group – Public Relations for author Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D.
Tel. (562) 612-0197 Cell (562) 221-9672 email: balmer64@yahoo.com
Date: Monday January 11, 2010 – Santa Monica California
Re: How to Save Your Life in 2010 – Step One – Cut Out Fake Sweeteners! Try This Delectable Real Chocolate Berry Mousse by Susan Dopart, M.S., R.D.!
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Photo by Jeffrey M. Batchelor
Santa Monica CA – Is living a healthier life on the top of your New Year’s Resolution List? If so, top Nutrition and Fitness Expert Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D., has the simple but powerful life saving answers for you in her new book, “A Recipe for Life by the Doctor’s Dietitian” available now on her website www.susandopart.com. With both diabetes and obesity reaching epidemic proportions in the United States it’s time we choose a new direction in the way we think about our health!
Over the next two months we’ll be sharing Susan’s top five steps to literally help save your life in 2010. To kick things off to a delicious start see below for Susan’s own easy “Chocolate Berry Mousse” recipe with only 270 calories, and total carbohydrates at only 30 grams. Creating an absolutely doable healthy lifestyle does not happen overnight: it evolves over time. For the best results Susan recommends slowly adding one new healthy behavior at a time until you reach the goals you desire. Here is Susan’s step number one:
1. Cut Out the Fake Food including Sweeteners!
If a food has more than five ingredients you can usually put it in the fake food category. The more ingredients a product has the more processed it is, especially if the ingredients are hard to pronounce!
Fake sweeteners are too good to be true and here’s why:
Drinking Diet Sodas Loaded with Fake Sweeteners Can Lead to Weight Gain!
Sharon Fowler, MPH, and her colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, collected data for eight years that was reported at the American Diabetes Association’s annual meeting in San Diego in 2005. What they discovered? People who drank diet soda did not lose weight, but gained weight.
Noted Fowler, “What didn’t surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity. What was surprising was that when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher. There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day.”
Using Fake Sweeteners May Cause You to Actually Eat More
Researcher are theorizing that taking in large amounts of non-nutritive sweeteners over time conditions the body not to associate sweetness with calories, which can then disrupt the body’s ability to assess caloric intake accurately and lead to overeating.
A study done in February 2008 at Purdue University (published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience) fed rats both with yogurt sweetened with regular sugar and yogurt sweetened with saccharin. The rats that ate the saccharin-sweetened yogurt took in 20 percent more calories than the rats consuming yogurt sweetened with sugar, and gained body fat.
Fake Sweeteners Program Your Taste Buds to Crave Sweeter and Sweeter Tastes!
Fake sweeteners range is sweetness from half as sweet as sugar to 8,000 times sweeter, with the average being 200-300 times sweeter!
The new guidelines of the American Heart Association suggest limiting sugar intake to no more than 100 calories per day for woman and 150 calories for men. This translates to no more than 5-8 teaspoons of sugar per day. On a label 1 teaspoon of sugar equals 4 grams of sugar so the label limit is 20-32 grams of sugar per day.
Try Small Amounts of What You Really Want!
Enjoying a small dessert with real ingredients (sweetened with cane sugar or honey – not high fructose corn syrup) can be part of a healthy balanced eating plan. Susan recommends 1/2 cup of ice-cream with all natural ingredients like Häagen-Dazs five™ and McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream of Santa Barbara which is deliciously satisfying in small amounts.
Also, dark or semi-sweet chocolate contains a substance known as flavonoids which have multiple health benefits. Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants which can lower inflammation in the body which can lower disease risk!
Following is an easy dessert which contains dark chocolate and satisfies the chocolate/sweet cravings without breaking your health bank.
“Quick Chocolate Berry Mousse”
Ingredients:
1 cup good quality semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup water
1 tablespoon 100% can sugar
1/2 teaspoon espresso powder
3 egg whites (large to jumbo)
1/4 cup real whipping cream
4 tablespoons raspberries, blueberries, or blackberries as garnish
Servings: 4 Prep time: 10 minutes + refrigeration
Preparation:
Put chocolate chips in blender or small food processor. Bring water, sugar, and espresso powder to a simmer on the stove. Pour over chocolate chips and blend for 15 seconds. Pour in egg whites* and blend on medium to high speed for one minute.
*Heating the water ensures the eggs are safe to eat.
Pour into four ramekins and let chill for at least two hours in the refrigerator.
Whip cream and one 1 tablespoon on each ramekin, top each with 1 tablespoon of berries.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving
Calories 270
Protein 5 grams
Total Carbohydrates 30 grams
Total Fat 17 grams
Fiber 3 grams
Sodium 53 mg.
The Quick Chocolate Berry Mousse recipe is an original recipe and the intellectual property of Susan Dopart, M.S., R.D., please don’t copy and distribute this recipe without giving full credit including a link to Susan’s website www.susandopart.com. Find more healthy and delicious recipes and ideas at www.susandopart.com. Both low-resolution and high-resolution photos of the Chocolate Berry Mousse are available for the press to use.
About Susan B. Dopart
Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D., is a nutrition and fitness with more than fifteen years experience as a private practice consultant. Her new book, A Recipe for Life by the Doctor’s Dietitian, focuses on the latest research regarding how positively, powerfully and effectively the right way to eat affects your energy levels, insulin resistance, diabetes, cancer and other medical issues.
Susan, who is a much-sought expert on diabetes prevention and care, wrote the book after years of searching for the perfect guide to share with her patients and just couldn’t find one. Susan received her B.S. in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics from UC Berkeley and her M.S. in Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine from California State University, Hayward.
Susan has consulted for UCLA Medical Center and Extension, Sebastian International, and Procter & Gamble. Her writing, recipes, and expertise have been shared in publications and productions, including Best Life, Men’s Health, and Diabetes Forecast, The SvelteGourmand.com, Doctor Radio and featured guest bloger on thekathleenshow.com.
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For more information please go to www.susandopart.com. PDF’s of the book are available now for media inquiries. To request an interview or to have the PDF of the book sent to you, please contact Melissa Balmer at Idea Group at Tel. (562) 612-0197 or via email at balmer64@yahoo.com. Book ISBN: 978-0-615-30873-9.