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WHAT HAPPENS TO A PERSON’S BODY WHEN THEY DRINK A COKE (injuryweightloss)
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
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Like this:
What would you do for Muffin?
Here is a workout we did last week to combat the calories found in 640 calorie Choc Chip Pumpkin Muffin
SHE ate her half – she BURNED her half
45 mins and 6400m – both records at the studio
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
Sugar in a Cinnamon Roll
How much Sugar is in one cinnamon roll?
Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll
1 roll
Calories from sugar: 220
Sugars, total: 55g
Calories, total: 813
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High Fructose Corn Syrup: The Fad
Fooducate Blog post using Saturday Night Live Spoof
HFCS fad has come an gone just like the Atkins and South Beach Diet – people think HFCS is poison now, anything not in moderation can be bad so choose your poisons wisely
Thanks Larissa for the link
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GT Get Fit Tip: Chocolate Milk has too much Sugar
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Give your kids chocolate flavored milk in moderation.
Chocolate milk is high in sugar and will contribute to Obesity if drank without responsibility. White milk has about 14 grams of sugar per serving and chocolate has about 20 grams. Thats almost as much sugar in a regular coke.
When I was younger there were a lot of “milk does a body good” commercials, not so much anymore. Some schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar to eliminate the extra calories from school lunch.
British TV chef Jamie Oliver is on a milk kick trying to add nutritional value to school lunches and uses a California beach’s sand to show how much sugar school kids actually drink. Watch “Food Revolution” for some useful info.
My personal opinion is that the chocolate milk sells better so they continue to market it as healthy so they can keep profits up. Milk does have good protein, calcium but telling kids its healthy is not exactly the truth. The extra calories in food will make kids fat.
Too much of anything is not good – gluttony of food is not good.
Will your kids be upset if they don’t have chocolate milk at school?
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GT Get Fit Tip: 5 ways to “Spring Clean” Your Body and Burn More Fat
Spring Clean this week and lose more body fat by trying these 5 (body) cleaning tips
If you’re looking for another BOOST or trick to start losing fat again here’s my Hi-5 to that
- Soda – clean out all “regular” sodas and start drinking less “diets” (aspartame)
- Cut Dairy and cheese consumption – good for calcium & protein but adds extra calories
- Don’t keep extra Juices – good for vitamins but adds extra sugar calories to your diet
- Frozen Foods (tv dinners, “health choice” meals) – easy to fix but pack extra sodium and carbs
- Sauces/dressings – awesome assortment of flavors out there but most are loaded with sugar and sodium to add taste
If you spring clean your fridge I am most certain your body, your mind and overall well-being will follow. When you rid yourself of all those extra carbs, starches and sugars, your body will start to take shape by utilizing its natural fat stores from the winter for energy and you will see it all come together as the Summer months approach. You have to have a balanced approach in your nutrition and physical activity focusing on both aspects because you can’t have too much of one without the other and expect great results.
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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 #16
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Worst Soda
#16 Sunkist
(1 bottle, 20 fl oz)
Wait . . . but aren’t all sodas equally terrible? It’s true they all earn 100 percent of their calories from sugar, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still varying levels of atrocity. Despite the perception of ealthfulness, fruity sodas tend to carry more sugar than their cola counterparts, and none make that more apparent than the tooth-achingly sweet Sunkist. But what seals the orange soda’s fate on our list of worsts is its reliance on the artificial colors yellow 6 and red 40—two chemicals that may be linked to behavioral and concentration problems in children.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/food/news.php?q=1278739661
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