Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Diabetes Quadruples!
We can squawk about North Korea and Iran, shake our head at politics, cringe at new NFL rules being passed...but the real challenge in this country might just be the consumption of sugar. It is everywhere folks. I've lost weight in the last couple months and mainly thru eliminating sugar or as much of it outside of fresh fruit from my diet. When I used the fitness pal app it was easy to see that I don't mass consume calories or eat all that much but it was what I was eating, when I was eating, how often I was eating these sugar filled foods.
I'm sorry but fast food is loaded with stuff you can't get around. Folks think their cute by having a 1,000 calorie snack meal form there and then eating a salad or something later and staying within proximity of their calorie goals...bad idea. And I hate to be a PSA guy but pretty much the entire grocery store outside of the produce department(which is more and more being shoved to the back of stores so you have to walk far to find the healthy stuff) is terrible for you...and of course the meat department to stock up on all that boneless skinless chicken you will be eating.
I hear about walls, trade, hourly wages, foreign opinions on religion and such...very little from these candidates about the importance of health. Give Obama and Michelle their due, they've tried to lead by example and make people aware of how important health is to their well being. I don't credit Pres BO with much but he has tried to encourage people to eat right.
People's health impacts all of us. I am starting to understand why some thin people resent the chubbies. Granted there are exceptions but it is not common or normal for men to be carrying between 30-50+ lbs over what they should be. Again there are exceptions but a lot of guys feel that because they carry a good amount of muscle they should get a pass for the amount of fat they carry with it. These are the dudes who say "I'm just a big bone dude, I'm not built to be 200 lbs"...look around and ask how many Senior Citizen men in relatively good health are carrying anything close to 250-300 lbs, common sense will tell you lean and even thin is the way to go. I know guys like to feel strong but some of us are not really made to carry a lot of weight but we do anyways.
I've cut out sugar in the form of cookies and candy bars and all that processed stuff, also have 86'd white bread and almost all baked goods with the exception of dry rye toast with breakfast a couple times a week. I get most of my whole grains thru either a Cascadian Farms style cereal or WW pasta which I love. And yes I have started limiting my fav food which is pizza and the first week I swear I had the shakes but eventually you lose your craving for a lot of these things to the point you could pass on it if someone puts it in front of you.
We have the war on drugs, war on cancer, how about the war on sugar? Pretty sure if we could reduce consumption by half the country would be a lot better for it. Maybe Making America Great needs a different leader. Perhaps they need to dust off Richard Simmons and have him run as VP for the GOP in November. This is a topic that should be one BOTH parties can get behind.
We can squawk about North Korea and Iran, shake our head at politics, cringe at new NFL rules being passed...but the real challenge in this country might just be the consumption of sugar. It is everywhere folks. I've lost weight in the last couple months and mainly thru eliminating sugar or as much of it outside of fresh fruit from my diet. When I used the fitness pal app it was easy to see that I don't mass consume calories or eat all that much but it was what I was eating, when I was eating, how often I was eating these sugar filled foods.
I'm sorry but fast food is loaded with stuff you can't get around. Folks think their cute by having a 1,000 calorie snack meal form there and then eating a salad or something later and staying within proximity of their calorie goals...bad idea. And I hate to be a PSA guy but pretty much the entire grocery store outside of the produce department(which is more and more being shoved to the back of stores so you have to walk far to find the healthy stuff) is terrible for you...and of course the meat department to stock up on all that boneless skinless chicken you will be eating.
I hear about walls, trade, hourly wages, foreign opinions on religion and such...very little from these candidates about the importance of health. Give Obama and Michelle their due, they've tried to lead by example and make people aware of how important health is to their well being. I don't credit Pres BO with much but he has tried to encourage people to eat right.
People's health impacts all of us. I am starting to understand why some thin people resent the chubbies. Granted there are exceptions but it is not common or normal for men to be carrying between 30-50+ lbs over what they should be. Again there are exceptions but a lot of guys feel that because they carry a good amount of muscle they should get a pass for the amount of fat they carry with it. These are the dudes who say "I'm just a big bone dude, I'm not built to be 200 lbs"...look around and ask how many Senior Citizen men in relatively good health are carrying anything close to 250-300 lbs, common sense will tell you lean and even thin is the way to go. I know guys like to feel strong but some of us are not really made to carry a lot of weight but we do anyways.
I've cut out sugar in the form of cookies and candy bars and all that processed stuff, also have 86'd white bread and almost all baked goods with the exception of dry rye toast with breakfast a couple times a week. I get most of my whole grains thru either a Cascadian Farms style cereal or WW pasta which I love. And yes I have started limiting my fav food which is pizza and the first week I swear I had the shakes but eventually you lose your craving for a lot of these things to the point you could pass on it if someone puts it in front of you.
We have the war on drugs, war on cancer, how about the war on sugar? Pretty sure if we could reduce consumption by half the country would be a lot better for it. Maybe Making America Great needs a different leader. Perhaps they need to dust off Richard Simmons and have him run as VP for the GOP in November. This is a topic that should be one BOTH parties can get behind.
12 grams. One cup of milk has that. 
