Our brains need glucose to thrive, our muscles need glucose to build, we need glucose for energy. Does that mean sugar? If so, from what food sources should we be getting our sugar? Were our bodies designed to handle sugar without fiber, or vitamins as found in processed sugar? A spoonful of sugar supposedly makes the medicine go down, but has our over consumption of readily accessible sugar made the medicine necessary?
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Did you know that before our "civilized cultures" were established, man only ate approximately 20ish teaspoons of sugar in an entire year. Even so, it came from fruit or veggie sources. By the 1800's the consumption of sugars and sweets, had blossomed to 5 pounds per person in one year. Today, the average person eats approximately 152 pounds of sugar in a year.
One soda contains almost 20 teaspoons of sugar. I want you to pour you a cup of coffee and just sit there and add 20 teaspoons to your cup. Will you drink that? If not, why then would you consume a cup of soda? YUCK! Our brains need glucose, but not in the amounts we have become accustomed too. Juice, for instance, is readily available in our grocery stores.
When I was a small child, my gramma used to slice a fresh orange in half and pull out the orange juice squeezer and she squeezed each of us the juice of one orange into a small glass. It yielded about 4 ounces, sometimes up to 6 ounces and all of the pulp and fiber came with it.
Today, we consume Orange Juice from Concentrate. It is thick, unlike our fresh juice, and the pulp is most times removed from the drink. In reality, we are drinking the equivalent of 8 to 10 oranges per glass. If this is on your breakfast table, no doubt your glycemic index is seriously compromised.
Even if we read labels, sugars are hidden throughout our foods. Here is a list of the sugars we are eating in our packaged foods:
• Agave nectar
• Barbados Sugar
• Barley Malt
• Barley Malt Syrup
• Beet Sugar
• Brown Rice Syrup
• Cane Juice sometimes listed as (Organic Cane Juice)
• Cane Crystals
* Carob Syrup
• Castor sugar
• Coconut palm sugar
• Coconut sugar
• Confectioner's sugar
• Corn sweetener
• Corn syrup
• Corn syrup solids
• Date sugar
• Dehydrated cane juice
• Damerara sugar
• Dextrin
• Dextrose
• Disaccharides (Di=2)
• Evaporated cane juice
• Free-flowing brown sugars
• Fructose
• Fruit juice
• Fruit juice concentrate
• Glucose
• Glucose solids
• Golden sugar
• Golden syrup
• Grape sugar
• High-Fructose Corn Syrup
• Honey
• Hydrogenated Starch
• Icing sugar
• Invert sugar
• Juice Concentrate
• Lactose
• Malt syrup
• Maltodextrin
• Malitol
• Maltose
• Mannose
• Maple Syrup
• Molasses
• Monosaccharides (Mono=one)
• Palm Sugar
• Panocha
• Powdered Sugar
• Raw Sugar
• Rice Syrup
• Saccharose
• Sorghum Syrup
• Sugar
• Sucrose
• Syrup
• Turbinado Sugar
• White Sugar
• Yellow Sugar
• Xylose
• Xylitol
WOW! No wonder we are confused about what to eat and not to eat. Is it a surprise that diabetes is much more common today than it was before 1950? Whole foods and nutrition dense foods are the way to go. If you want to lower your blood sugar levels and make an impact on your LDL, HDL and triglycerides, read the labels. Learn how to eat whole foods and how to balance your diet with exercise. Medical and health insurance cannot and will not cure or heal our bodies. As we age, and our grocery stores are becoming more and more about convenience and profit, we must take charge of our health and consider what we are putting into our mouths.
Shawn Nalewany has found the balance of whole nutrition and good exercise and helps us understand the importance of building or rebuilding our bodies and health. =>LEARN MORE ABOUT BALANCING YOUR DIET, HEALTH AND EXERCISE. WATCH THE FREE VIDEO HERE<=
=>LEARN MORE ABOUT BALANCING WHOLE FOODS WITH PROPERLY BUILDING OUR BODIES WITH EXERCISE. WATCH THE FREE VIDEO HERE<=
Did you know that before our "civilized cultures" were established, man only ate approximately 20ish teaspoons of sugar in an entire year. Even so, it came from fruit or veggie sources. By the 1800's the consumption of sugars and sweets, had blossomed to 5 pounds per person in one year. Today, the average person eats approximately 152 pounds of sugar in a year.
One soda contains almost 20 teaspoons of sugar. I want you to pour you a cup of coffee and just sit there and add 20 teaspoons to your cup. Will you drink that? If not, why then would you consume a cup of soda? YUCK! Our brains need glucose, but not in the amounts we have become accustomed too. Juice, for instance, is readily available in our grocery stores.
Today, we consume Orange Juice from Concentrate. It is thick, unlike our fresh juice, and the pulp is most times removed from the drink. In reality, we are drinking the equivalent of 8 to 10 oranges per glass. If this is on your breakfast table, no doubt your glycemic index is seriously compromised.
Even if we read labels, sugars are hidden throughout our foods. Here is a list of the sugars we are eating in our packaged foods:
• Agave nectar
• Barbados Sugar
• Barley Malt
• Barley Malt Syrup
• Beet Sugar
• Brown Rice Syrup
• Cane Juice sometimes listed as (Organic Cane Juice)
• Cane Crystals
* Carob Syrup
• Castor sugar
• Coconut palm sugar
• Coconut sugar
• Confectioner's sugar
• Corn sweetener
• Corn syrup
• Corn syrup solids
• Date sugar
• Dehydrated cane juice
• Damerara sugar
• Dextrin
• Dextrose
• Disaccharides (Di=2)
• Evaporated cane juice
• Free-flowing brown sugars
• Fructose
• Fruit juice
• Fruit juice concentrate
• Glucose
• Glucose solids
• Golden sugar
• Golden syrup
• Grape sugar
• High-Fructose Corn Syrup
• Honey
• Hydrogenated Starch
• Icing sugar
• Invert sugar
• Juice Concentrate
• Lactose
• Malt syrup
• Maltodextrin
• Malitol
• Maltose
• Mannose
• Maple Syrup
• Molasses
• Monosaccharides (Mono=one)
• Palm Sugar
• Panocha
• Powdered Sugar
• Raw Sugar
• Rice Syrup
• Saccharose
• Sorghum Syrup
• Sugar
• Sucrose
• Syrup
• Turbinado Sugar
• White Sugar
• Yellow Sugar
• Xylose
• Xylitol
WOW! No wonder we are confused about what to eat and not to eat. Is it a surprise that diabetes is much more common today than it was before 1950? Whole foods and nutrition dense foods are the way to go. If you want to lower your blood sugar levels and make an impact on your LDL, HDL and triglycerides, read the labels. Learn how to eat whole foods and how to balance your diet with exercise. Medical and health insurance cannot and will not cure or heal our bodies. As we age, and our grocery stores are becoming more and more about convenience and profit, we must take charge of our health and consider what we are putting into our mouths.
Shawn Nalewany has found the balance of whole nutrition and good exercise and helps us understand the importance of building or rebuilding our bodies and health. =>LEARN MORE ABOUT BALANCING YOUR DIET, HEALTH AND EXERCISE. WATCH THE FREE VIDEO HERE<=
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