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Jul 24, 2014
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Today, I’m taking a break from normal podcast interviews to step on my soapbox for a few minutes. I love doing interviews (you can check them all out here), but a recent experience reminded me of the importance of this issue and I didn’t want to wait for an interview to talk about it.
Any guesses as to what the issue is?
I’ll give you a hint- it is an addictive substance that is linked to various types of disease and is especially harmful to children who are exposed.
Nicotine? Nope.
Illicit drugs? Those too, but no.
Asbestos? Yes, but not today’s topic.
Another hint- It is molecularly similar to cocaine and harmful to the liver.
Alcohol? No.
Vegetable oils? Nope, but those are bad too.
Toxic cleaning chemicals? No, but I would recommend using natural alternatives to those as well.
Today, I’m ranting about SUGAR.
Why? Because I decided to count for a week and my children were offered refined sugar in some form 21 times! The scary part is that we avoid a lot of situations where they would most logically be offered it and these were just places like the bank, the gym (!!) and friends’ houses.
All things in moderation….
A little bit won’t hurt…
It’s fuel for the brain…
All justifications for consuming sugar in some amount. The question is: should sugar ever be consumed and if so, in what amount?
I suggest that refined sugar should be avoided completely. Not so sure? Consider this:
27 million+ people suffering from thyroid problems
66% of the population overweight or obese
Rates of cancer and heart disease skyrocketing
estimated 95% of the population obese in next few decades
1/3 of the population suffering from metabolic syndrome
Also, consider…
In 1700, average sugar consumption was 4 pounds per year.
In 1800, that number jumped to 18 pounds per year.
In 1900, this had more than quadrupled to 90 lbs per year.
Currently, Americans average one-half pound PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year! (or roughly equal to a person’s bodyweight in sugar per year)
I wrote about the problems with sugar in depth here, but a paper called The Harmful Effects of Sugar on the Body and Mind explains:
Many times, so much calcium is used to neutralize the effects of sugar that the bones become osteoporotic due to the withdrawn calcium. Likewise, the teeth are affected and they lose their components until decay occurs and hastens their loss. …Refined sugar is void of all nutrients, consequently it causes the body to deplete its own stores of various vitamins, minerals and enzymes. If sugar consumption is continued, an over-acid condition results, and more minerals are needed from deep in the body to correct the imbalance. If the body is lacking the nutrients used to metabolize s
Released:
Jul 24, 2014
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21: The Problem with Sitting: A Solution: Chad and Brenda Walding join me on today’s podcast to explain how sitting can be one of the most harmful things you do each day. You’ve probably seen the headlines… “Sitting is the New Smoking” “7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You” “Sitting is Taking Years Off Your Life” …and you may have hoped it was media hype. Sitting is Worse Than Donuts… It isn’t hype. More and more studies have come out proving how bad sitting is EVEN if you work out regularly. Here are three important studies about sitting… Study One: Sitting causes premature death (especially in women!) Alpa Patel (PhD), an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, tracked the health of 123,000 Americans between 1992 and 2006. The men in the study who spent six hours or more per day of their leisure time sitting had an overall death rate that was 20 percent higher than the men who sat for three hours or less. The death rate for women who sat for more than six hours a day was about 40 perc by The Wellness Mama Podcast