Tag: sugar

  • Don’t Eat Toxins

    I had a great day yesterday filled with lots of great people around me and an easy relaxed day. I went out to lunch with two of my favorite people -Scotty & Britt – was able to take a nap – and go out to dinner with Scotty and eat a good meal and just…

  • Sugar, Not Fats and Oils, is What is Causing the Obesity Epidemic

    Why are we so fat? We have not become greedier as a race. We are not, contrary to popular wisdom, less active – a 12-year study, which began in 2000 at Plymouth hospital, measured children’s physical activity and found it the same as 50 years ago. But something has changed: and that something is very…

  • What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain

    What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression  – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our brains. According…

  • Sugar: It’s Not Good For You

    Warmup Double Under Practice Skill Mobility WOD “Annie”  50-40-30-20 and 10 rep rounds of: Double-unders, Sit-ups. I struggled big time with Double Unders today — 13:46 was my time, which is over 1m more than last time. Some days you have it, some days you don’t. It happens – time to move on! Make sure…

  • Debate over who can call themselves sugar …

    Sugar Farmers And Corn Industry Debate Who Can Name Themselves After Poison You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig — Last year, the Corn Refiners Association decided that the term “high fructose corn syrup” just didn’t have same catchy ring to it as “sugar.” The solution: re-brand HFCS as “corn sugar”…

  • Sugar- the most demonized additive known to man

    Is Sugar Toxic? It’s so interesting to gain the insight and knowledge that science provides us around what we are trained to put in our bodies — On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed…

  • Zapping Sugar Cravings

    Hair-Raising Stats on this “White Plague” and How to Reduce Your Need for Sweets Sugar is caustic, plain and simple, especially the white, refined versions, which demolish health with staggering ease. Most foods consumed today, processed and homemade alike, contain added sugar. While the more natural sweeteners such as raw honey, maple syrup, and dehydrated…

  • Help Rename High-Fructose Corn Syrup

    Help Rename High-Fructose Corn Syrup Now why would you suppose they want to rename it? The Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms that make the syrup, has been trying to improve the image of the much maligned sweetener with ad campaigns promoting it as a natural ingredient made from corn. Now, the group has petitioned…

  • No Sweet Surprise in my book

    Has anyone see a commercial or visited this site: sweetsurprise.com? It’s all about high fructose corn syrup and how it has not been proven to be any more linked to obesity rates than sugar and both are similarly metabolized by the body. Ok, first off – i love how the Corn Refiners Association is behind…