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Page 1 O The Battalion Tuesday, Novembers, 1 FREE Backpack when you buy an HP calculator! For business For science & engineering 14B $60.00 17B $82.50 19B...$132.00 22S $45.00 27S $82.50 28S $176.25 32S $52.50 42S $90.00 £3 B35 1 AUTHORIZED HEWLETT-PACKARD DEALER SOS CHURCH STREET COIECE STATIOH.TEMS TTS40 409/846-53!i Avoiding high-sugar snacks helps to cut hidden calories, save teeth from decay By STEPHANIE GROGAN KARA HOSACK Special to The Battalion Students can be consumed by calorie counting in their quests to lose weight. But hidden calories can be hard to find. One way to avoid calories is to avoid too much sugar. Sugar has calories for energy, but it also means extra pounds. To avoid excessive sugars, use less of all sugars, including white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey and syrups. Other hints in clude: • Eat fewer foods that contain these sugars, like candy, soft drinks, ice cream, cakes and coo kies. • Read food labels for clues on sugar content. If the names su crose, glucose, maltose, dextrose, lactose, fructose or syrups appear first on the label, then there is a large amount of sugar in the food. Another factor to remember is dietary sugar. This is the hidden sugar that most people do not re alize they consume, which in in prepared food. Some examples you might not be aware of in clude: • 1 hamburger bun — 3 tsp. sugar • 12 oz. soft drink — 7 tsp. • 1 glazed donut — 6 tsp. • I piece of iced chocolate cake—10 tsp. • 1/2 cup sherbert — 9 tsp. Can you wean your sweet tooth? Most of us are aware of tooth decay from eating too much sugar. This hazard ideals with how long the sugar stays in con tact with your teeth. On-the-go students often snack on sticky candy or soft drinks all night long. These may be more harm ful than adding sugar to your morning cup of coffee, at least as NIGHT-TIME HEARTBURN STUDY Do you experience night-time heartburn? VIP Research is seeking individuals for a short-term research study of a currently availabe medication. A $100 incentive will be paid to those who enroll and complete this study CALL Volunteers In Pharmaceutical Research® 776-1417 far as your teeth are concerned. So, cut down on high sugar snacks to cut calories and to pre vent tooth decay. An alternative to sugar today includes artificial sweeteners cur rently on the market: aspertame and saccharin. Aspartame, also known as NutraSweet®, has the same caloric value of sugar, which is four calories per gram, but it is 180 times sweeter. Therefore, you need very little for the same sweetening effect. On the other hand, your body does not metabolize saccharin, so it takes in no calories. The ques tion then is, “Can I consume too much artificial sweetener?” The World Health Organiza tion has set an acceptable intake of 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight, which is equivalent to approximately 12 cans of diet soda per day or 62 packets of Equal®. The recom mended maximum daily intake of saccharin is two and a half milli grams per kilogram of body weight, which is approximately three-and-a-half packets of Sweet’N’Low®. A calorie comparison of prod ucts made with sugar and made with artificial sweeteners looks like this: • carbonated soft drink (six oz.) — 78 calories from sugar/1 ca lorie from artificial sweeteners • lemonade — 86 from sugar/5 from artificial sweeteners | » NOVEMBER SALE! O F T H E STARTS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7AM-10PM SALE CONTINUES THROUGH NEXT WEEK Va-v. FIRST DAY ONLY! D.B. Sport $799099 ROBERTO H3 JV D.B. m ORSINI® Mr SPORT® FLEECE SEPARATES (S-M-L) VALUES $20-28 THRU SUNDAY ONLY! 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ALSO IN AUSTIN & SAN ANTONIO! ^ Advertised styles are representative of stock and occasionally specific styles may not be available. Layaway/Exchange. LIMITED TIME SPECIALS AVAILABLE WHILE QUANTITIES LAST. FASHIONS 81 from sugar/10 from artife sweeteners Whatever sweetener you choose, consider the total amoun: you consume. Avoid too much. If you have questions abou: ways to avoid too much sugar please visit the MUNCCHexhib at Sbisa today from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. Stop by and visit with m about dietary guidelines and your food choices. Nutrition stuJim Kara Hosack and Stephanie Grogan m helping Texas A&M students make wji food choices. Their MUNCCH progm (Making Ultimate Nutrition Choices ii, College Housing) is a nutrition educadm series of table posters, fliers and eihik on dietary guidelines. Take the suga challenge Test your sugar knowledy with these trivia questions. 1. Does a tablespoon of hont have more calories and carbob drate content than a tablesp: of granulated sugar? Than p dered sugar? 2. If you drink one 12 oz. sort with sugar every day in excessi your energy needs, how longw it take before you gain an extr? pound? 3. Can reading labels on prod ucts give a clue to how mucho: each ingredient is contained ii the product? Answers: 1. Yes, honey has more caloric and carbohydrates than one ti! blespoon of sugar. Sixty-fon: compared to 46 for granulate: sugar or 31 for powdered sugar 2. 20 days. 3. Yes, labels list their ingre dients in the order of their ptt cent content. The first ingredie: listed is contained in the large amount. Missing records may cover up Iraqi connect! HOUSTON (AP) — Business cords at a bankrupt company repc: edly were destroyed to conceal c with an Iraqi financier accused of: volvement in the development of.; Libyan chemical weapons plant. The records at IBI Industries: legedly were destroyed late at niffl last month, the Houston Chronic reported Monday. Ed Durante, IBI senior vice president, contacted! U.S. Customs Service after learnr about the incident. Sources who asked to rent anonymous confirmed that Durar named the individuals he belie' are responsible for destroying® office, t records at the Houston Chronicle said. Men associated with the businf allegedly destroyed the records in effort to prevent the disclosure of: volvement of the now-decea' Iraqi, Dr. Ihsan Barbouti, and his dest son, Haidar, in the activities IBI and other companies, : sources said. The documents are suspected being related to illicit trade with' bya. Thomas Herter, an attorney a company director representing If denied during a bankruptcy hean that any records were destroyed. On Sunday, Herter said the must have been a misunderstand!' He said he directed an accouni' and a helper to preserve IBI cords. Destroying or concealing » pany records after a bankruptcy ing is a federal offense. U.S. officials last year identic Barbouti as designer of a Lib' chemical weapons plant. some eration. 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