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"   If you&amp;#039;re like me, there&amp;#039;s pretty much a steady stream of food to nosh on when you&amp;#039;re at your parents&amp;#039; house for the holidays. Well now a new study from Yale University attempts to explain away our moms&amp;#039; feeding neuroses. We&amp;#039;re overeating because of fructose! It turns out, all the sugary foods and beverages around the holidays (and any other time of the year) reduce our brain&amp;#039;s ability to recognize when we&amp;#039;re full, causing us to snarf down a few extra snickerdoodles. The researchers point out, though, that you shouldn&amp;#039;t avoid healthy sources of fructose, like apples, grapes, pears, and, actually, almost all fruit juices. Honey and sugar should be avoided in excess (as should everything, so\u2026), but the big things to watch out for are soda, many store-bought salad dressings, and canned fruit that comes marinated in syrup. Contrarily, and in the spirit of our New Research We Freaking Love tag, those extra holiday pounds might not be such a bad thing! No, you don&amp;#039;t want to let your helicopter-parent-induced binging get out of hand, but another study, this one published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that being a few pounds overweight can help you live longer. The argument? A little meat on the bones gives you the energy stores to fight off illness and can aid recovery from some injuries.  To summarize: If you chowed down on sweets over the holidays and put on a few extra lbs, don&amp;#039;t sweat it and enjoy your increased chance of survival. And if you didn&amp;#039;t, congratulate yourself on having the self control to resist those cannolis your Uncle Jim brought over. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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