18. This is the sacred cow of dietary advice And I am sad to say I have to kill this poor cow. homework.uoregon.edu:8080/dchat/images/cow.gif
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21. What is in our food supply? We add 77.2 grams of fat and 29.7 grams of caloric sweeteners per capita into our food supply. This makes high calorie food very cheap! Source: USDA (2006)
22. The simple carbohydrate breakdown Early in 2005 a pound of beet sugar cost 24 cents but high fructose corn syrup cost about half as much 13 cents a pound. HFCS has become a very common and cheap sweetener.
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24. The fiber trend… since 1907 We took out the fiber then put it back in
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28. What do we eat? Males Females The calories we consume come from 49 %(males) to 52% (females) from carbohydrates {half that from sweeteners} 32.8% from fat 17.9 (males) 20.3 (females) from protein
29. How many calories do we eat? The average male consumes 2618 calories daily. The average female consumes 1877 calories daily.