If you haven’t checked out The Modern Forager yet, we highly suggest you head on over and start reading! With Halloween creeping up on us, it is important to remain diligent and dedicated to maintaining our healthy lifestyles – this includes your diet.
The following is an excerpt from an article entitled “Five Worst Dietary Transgressions” by Scott Kustes, the main author for the Modern Forager blog.
1. Refined Sugar
Number one on my list is sugar. Sugar hits the body with unbelievable metabolic damage. The glucose surge, the corresponding insulin surge, insulin receptor damage leading to insulin resistance, insulin resistance leading to Type II Diabetes…the list goes on.
Sugar is just flat-out bad stuff. Encompassed in “refined sugar” is plain white sugar, brown sugar, and the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), possibly the worst food mankind has created. Fructose is the sugar found in fruit and also found in super-concentrated form (HFCS) in soft drinks and other junk (not “junk food”, remember that there’s no such thing. It is also the sugar that scientists use to induce insulin resistance (diabetes) in lab rats.
Is there any question why America has become The Land of the Fat and Home of the Diabetic?
High circulating glucose also damages arterial linings, which causes cholesterol to have to do its work to repair them (for which it gets the blame), and is a huge contributor to heart disease and stroke. While it is theoretically possible to screw yourself up with fruit, the average person is not going to eat enough fruit to really do so. Avoiding refined sugar is tied for #1 on my list of foods to avoid to improve your health. That doesn’t mean you can never have a cookie or a slice of chocolate cake. It just means that sugar should be a treat, not a dietary staple.
An extension of this one is organic junk foods. The use of organic snack foods has also become a big thing these days. Whole Foods and Wild Oats are common household names and people assume that anything sold there must be healthful. Not so friends! Organic junk food is still junk food, albeit in a slightly more healthful wrapper… read more
Pictures of our members yesterday practicing Medicine Ball Cleans, Handstands, and performing the CrossFit Total.
Two of our members received an Advanced rating on the CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Charts. Can you guess who?
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Lori carved that pumpkin last night, I was pretty stoked on it! Bye the way great article
Lori, great job on the pumpkin. Btw – the movie was great thanks.
Lori, that pumpkin is awesome!
That was a good article and the modern forager link seems to have a lot of good info too.
Nice Pumpkin!! It almost says, “I want to be formal, but I’m here to party”
I agree.