carlos a's List: Life Style

• Starbucks new Full Leaf Tazo Tea Lattes are our first handcrafted tea offerings to use full-leaf tea bags in our stores, allowing customers to steep to their own taste preferences. Starbucks Tea Lattes are made from a soothing combination of steamed milk and Tazo tea and are available in three new varieties:

• he Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) was developed by a group of nutrition and health experts, led by David Katz, chairman of the Yale Prevention Research Center.

      

  ONQI takes into account a number of factors in assigning a score of 1 to 100 for each food, including negatives like the amount of saturated fat, sugar and cholesterol in a food, and positives like fiber, nutrients, omega 3 fatty acids and the quality of the proteins.

• Peppermint not only freshens your breath, it freshens your brain.

• BJ's Brewhouse
• A great place for apps and drinks, or to take your parents.
• We weren't really there for the food, but it was surprisingly good
• The real star here is the beer: many, many pages of sweet, sweet beer. The house brew is bracingly good, and not sparing in hops or malt. We expected this seemingly boomer-demo chain to be a bit more timid in its flavor profiles, but BJ's ales and porters are tasty enough for more extreme beer enthusiasts.

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• Best New Restaurant: BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse

• Almost all nutritionists finger high fructose corn syrup consumption as a  major culprit in the nation's obesity crisis.

• The body processes the fructose in high fructose corn syrup  differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn  alters the way metabolic-regulating hormones function. It also forces the  liver to kick more fat out into the bloodstream.  

  The end result is that our bodies are essentially tricked into wanting to  eat more and at the same time, we are storing more fat.
• A single 12-ounce can of soda has as much as 13 teaspoons of sugar in the  form of high fructose corn syrup.

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• High-fructose corn syrup is a sweetener and preservative used in many processed foods. It is made by changing the sugar in cornstarch to fructose — another form of sugar.

    

  High-fructose corn syrup extends the shelf life of foods and is sweeter and cheaper than sugar. For these reasons, it has become a popular ingredient in many sodas, fruit-flavored drinks and other processed foods.
• Choose fruit canned in its own juices instead of heavy syrup.

• HFCS high fructose corn syrup is responsible for a dangerous epidemic of obesity and diabetes. People under the age of 45 are “children of the corn.”
• Now many of them are struggling with an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, also being referred to as diabesity.

  • DIABESITY ??
• One 20-ounce bottle of Coke, Pepsi, Mt Dew, Sprite or Dr. Pepper is the equivalent of pouring 17 teaspoons of sugar straight into your body. HFCS is the leading ingredient after carbonated water in these beverages. Women who drink at least one regular soda a day are 85 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who drink less. It also leads to tooth decay.
  
• High fructose corn syrup masquerades under the name of crystalline fructose

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