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Sugar: Mike’s Hard Lemonade -1 Bottle
Mike’s Hard Lemonade
11.2 oz Serving (Bottle) Sugars, total: 30g Calories, total: 220 Calories from sugar: 120
Toys in Fast Food meals BANNED in Bowling Green – Yes or No?
Some health officials and fitness experts are wanting to make policy to ban restaurants from including toys in meals that have more than 485 kcals or 600 mg of sodium, and meals that have more than 35% of total kcals from Fat or 10% from added sugar.
They would also make restaurants include low-fat milk and 100% fruit juice options instead of chocolate milk and sugary juices.
I personally am in favor of making healthy options available but I wouldn’t consider a “ban” instead they could eliminate unhealthy options with no toys in favor of the healthy choices with toys?
This is America #dowhatyoulike
How bout them apples?
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20 Worst Drinks in America – #11
#11 Starbucks Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with Whipped Cream (venti, 20 fl oz)
Hopefully this will dispel any lingering fragments of the“health halo” that still exists in coffee shops—that misguidedbelief that espresso-based beverages can’t do much damage. In this 20-ounce cup, Starbucks manages to pack in more calories and saturated fat than two slices of deepdish sausage and pepperoni pizza from Domino’s. That makes it the equivalent of dinner and dessert disguised as a cup of coffee. If you want a treat, look to Starbucks’ supplyof sugar-free syrups; if you want a caffeine buzz, stick to the regular joe, an Americano, or a cappuccino.
(From 20 Worst Drinks in America)
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GT Get Fit Tip: Body Mass – How Much Do You Really Weigh?
Heavier one pound of blubber, blood sucking, jelly roll of fat, or a pound of lean, toned, ”fat” burning muscle?
When you talk about body mass or total weight your actually talking about two different things = fat vs muscle. Lean body mass of the body is made up of bones, organs, muscle and water.
Fat mass is all the weight in fat that’s left over. Depending on height, age and sex yourBody Mass Index (19-24 optimal)will vary.
My clients often ask how a person who starts an awesome cross training or weight lifting program gain weight before they see a significant loss in body fat?
The answer my friend is because muscle is more dense than fat and fat takes up more room in your pants and shirts. Muscles also hold water so small increases in lean muscle tissue adds water weight in the initial stages before seeing a big weight or fat loss.
I had one client lose 14inches in her butt, abs and boobs and only 7lbs total. Muscle will add good weight that is optimal for burning fat when you’re not working out. Little bit of muscle training will help you to get toned.
Not only will you look and feel better, but live longer. Being fat will kill you slow and painfully over time, one joint, one organ at a time. If you need convincing listen to obese people talk about how their feet, knees and back hurt. Ask somebody who lived with Type II Diabetes for more than 8yrs staying overweight and have their foot amputated because of high blood sugar. Know somebody that had a heart attack but continues to be overweight and/or smoke?
Tell them you love them, its only a matter of time before they won’t be around, take it from me, sooner than you could ever imagine.
STOP obesity!! It kills
All of us can, if you will.
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Drew Carey: Down 80lbs
Drew Carey: “It Sucks Being Fat.”
Funnyman Drew Carey also showed up at the CBS Summer Press Tour Party last night after having lost an astounding 80 pounds through a low carb diet and exercise!
Photos via BauerGriffin
Wow! He looks amazing.
The newly svelte host of “The Price is Right” showed off his new bod on the red carpet Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, where he told reporters: “It sucks being fat.”
Since losing the weight, “I’m not diabetic anymore. No medication needed.”
And all he had to do was say good-bye to the bread and chips.
“No carbs,” he told People magazine in describing his new diet. “… not even a cracker. No bread at all. No pizza, nothing. No corn, no beans, no starches of any kind. Egg whites in the morning or like, Greek yogurt, cut some fruit.”
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“I like being skinny,” says Carey. “I was sick of being fat on the camera. Really, I just got sick of it.”
Too Sweet for Sweetness? Natural vs Artificial Sugar
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All sugar is the same, white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, it all comes from either sugar cane or sugar beets. We manufacture corn for sugar and make artificial sweeteners (Phenylalanine and Aspartame) for products to add taste and freshness.
Common products with added sugar: (1 gram = 1 teaspoon)
- Chinese Fortune cookies one cookie 3.5 grams
- Baked beans one-cup serving 15 grams
- Ketchup single pack 4 grams
- Flavored Yogurt single serving size 24 grams
- BBQ sauce one-cup serving 9 grams
- “Reduced” salad dressings one-cup reduced-calorie French dressing 58 grams
- Lemonade single serving of the drink has almost 17 grams
- Caramel Flavored popcorn 18 grams per ounce serving.
- Granola bars 11 grams
Natural Sugar
There’s a natural sugar in fruit and plants called “fructose” which has gotten a bad name over the years. The body metabolizes sugar into glucose so the brain can use it for energy and if a body already has ample energy readily available then anything extra will be turned to triglycerides and fats by the liver. Fructose is easily converted to fat if not needed, which causes a problem for people who do not move alot or burn enough calories. Overweight to morbidly obese persons have free-flowing sugar in their bodies waiting to be used and the build up of high blood sugar will contribute to bone, joint and heart diseases. When I worked at the hospital my favorite patients to train were Type II Diabetics because 15mins of exercise helped control blood sugar and alleviate joint pain while burning calories to reduce fat stores and get them off medications. I had a blast!!
Man-made Sugar
We manufacture sugar from plants and also use chemicals to make aspartame and phenylalanine (Equal, Nutrasweet and Splenda) which can increase desire for sweets, kill taste buds and decrease insulin absorption by the body and contribute to adult-onset diabetes.
Aspartame causes additional problems because of its chemical breakdown. A molecule of aspartame consists of two amino acids (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) linked by a molecule of methanol, the alcohol found in antifreeze. At 30C (86F), lower than body temperature, the three components come apart and each has distinctive effects. The methanol is metabolized in your body to formaldehyde and then to formic acid. Both of these are very potent metabolic poisons.
Phenylalanine and aspartic acid both mimic brain neurotransmitters. They can disrupt the balance of these chemicals, causing depression, seizures, memory problems and problems with concentration and learning. They may also be a factor in the development of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS (Lou Gherig’s disease), as well as multiple sclerosis. (http://www.alive.com/)
I personally drink diet sodas with phenylalanine and I can’t pass them up when they are on sale, call it an addiction or craving, it doesn’t matter. I would rather choose natural fructose over any manufactured sugars because factories mean profit and profits for big companies are not always health conscious.
The choice is yours.
Pick your poison.
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