Welcome to Chet Day's Health Circus
Well, I finally bit the bullet and decided to start a blog to beef things up a bit around the old website.
I'm going to try to spend at least a few minutes several days a week sharing a natural health tip or recipe or else ranting or raving about something that's pissed me off in the health circus.
To start things off, here's a health tip about sugar:
Say No To Sugar for One Week and Feel Like a New Person
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, per capita consumption of added sugars has risen by 28% since 1983. The average American consumes at least 64 pounds of sugar per year, and the average teenage boy at least 109 pounds.
Consuming the typical amount of white sugar makes most people moody or hyper or cranky or nasty or just plain sick.
Scientific studies funded by the sugar industry "prove" that white sugar won't hurt us one lick and is supposedly good for us.
Baloney.
Be your own scientific study. Remove all white sugar from your diet for seven days and amaze yourself at how much better you'll feel at the end of that period.
More disturbing sugar facts from the CSPI:
The typical American gets 16% of his or her calories from added sugars.
Children aged 6 to 11 get 18% of their calories from added sugars.
Teenagers (12 to 19) get 20% of their calories from added sugars.
USDA projects that if consumption trends continue, added-sugars intake will increase almost 20% between 1996 and 2005.
People who consume diets high in added sugars consume lower levels of fiber; vitamins A, C, E, and folate; magnesium; calcium; and other nutrients. By displacing protective nutrients and foods in the diet, added sugars may increase the risk of osteoporosis, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease and other health problems.
Calorie-dense foods, which are typically high in sugar and/or fat, contribute to obesity. Between 1976-80 and 1988-94, overweight rates in teenage boys rose from 5% to 12%, in teenage girls from 7% to 11%, and in adults from 25% to 35%. If you think the obesity trend hasn't continued, stop and look at the people around you when you're outside today.
I repeat the point of today's health tip: remove all refined sugar (read the labels on everything you eat and purchase) out of your diet for one week and see how much better you feel and act without the stuff in your body.
Some docs were onto the dangers of refined sugar almost a hundred years ago. For an interesting flash from the past, check out:
http://chetday.com/sugar.html
That's it for my first entry.
I hope you'll find this space amusing, interesting, and worth your time.
Chet
I'm going to try to spend at least a few minutes several days a week sharing a natural health tip or recipe or else ranting or raving about something that's pissed me off in the health circus.
To start things off, here's a health tip about sugar:
Say No To Sugar for One Week and Feel Like a New Person
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, per capita consumption of added sugars has risen by 28% since 1983. The average American consumes at least 64 pounds of sugar per year, and the average teenage boy at least 109 pounds.
Consuming the typical amount of white sugar makes most people moody or hyper or cranky or nasty or just plain sick.
Scientific studies funded by the sugar industry "prove" that white sugar won't hurt us one lick and is supposedly good for us.
Baloney.
Be your own scientific study. Remove all white sugar from your diet for seven days and amaze yourself at how much better you'll feel at the end of that period.
More disturbing sugar facts from the CSPI:
The typical American gets 16% of his or her calories from added sugars.
Children aged 6 to 11 get 18% of their calories from added sugars.
Teenagers (12 to 19) get 20% of their calories from added sugars.
USDA projects that if consumption trends continue, added-sugars intake will increase almost 20% between 1996 and 2005.
People who consume diets high in added sugars consume lower levels of fiber; vitamins A, C, E, and folate; magnesium; calcium; and other nutrients. By displacing protective nutrients and foods in the diet, added sugars may increase the risk of osteoporosis, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease and other health problems.
Calorie-dense foods, which are typically high in sugar and/or fat, contribute to obesity. Between 1976-80 and 1988-94, overweight rates in teenage boys rose from 5% to 12%, in teenage girls from 7% to 11%, and in adults from 25% to 35%. If you think the obesity trend hasn't continued, stop and look at the people around you when you're outside today.
I repeat the point of today's health tip: remove all refined sugar (read the labels on everything you eat and purchase) out of your diet for one week and see how much better you feel and act without the stuff in your body.
Some docs were onto the dangers of refined sugar almost a hundred years ago. For an interesting flash from the past, check out:
http://chetday.com/sugar.html
That's it for my first entry.
I hope you'll find this space amusing, interesting, and worth your time.
Chet
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2 Comments:
Hi, Chet,
I just want to say, I so agree about giving up the sugar. I am on the Fat Flush Plan, which allows no sugar or any processed or canned foods which would have sugar in them. We use Stevia Plus as the sweetner of choice, but even that is used in very small amounts. I have not had sugar for 11 months. It is amazing how tasty real unprocessed food tastes! And as towards feeling better, well, I do. When you give up sugar, after about a week or two you lose some of the cravings for other processed foods also.
I know this will post anonymously, because I don't want to join the "blog" but I am proud of my weight loss accomplishments on the Fat Flush Plan and want to share them. Check this link out:
www.picturetrail.com/debschoice
If you have any interest in the Fat Flush Plan, which has to be the most well thought out, healthiest eating plan I have ever researched, go to http://www.fatflush.com/forum/. I quite often post information that I learn from your newsletters there, so thank you! And also, thanks for your recipes, which I often can use with just small adaptations (like taking out the sugar or salt)
Thanks again!
Great article! And the link about stevia is fantastic too.
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