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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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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 dar