How Sugar Affects Your Fitness
The recent trend in health news is to highlight the dangers of sugar.
Sugar in itself is not bad for you, it's actually critically important for proper cognitive and physical function.
The issue is, as with most things in regards to nutrition, is consuming it at excess.
When fat was the boogeyman consumers started demanding low fat options.
But low fat food tend to be bland in taste so manufactures solved that problem by packing their items full of sugar, which is tasty and cheap.
In essence they just traded on excessive energy supply for another, with the added caveat of sugar being highly addictive.
From a manufacturers point of view it was a major win to be able to produce cheap addictive foods.
But our increase intake of sugar has come with a major cost.
You can literally draw a correlating line that matches our intake of sugar with the rise obesity.
If you have any aspirations of being fit you will have to manage your sugar intake.
Excess sugar is added into most prepared food so you will have to learn to prepare your own meals.
This also means that you will have to avoid store bought juices and sodas as they are incredibly dense with sugar.
Again, the sugar isn't the issue, it's the amount.
Our body simply doesn't not have a way to manage that much influx of sugar.
To illustrate this point lets compare a corn cob and a can of pop.
one corn on the cob has 5 grams of sugar, while one can of pop has 40 grams of sugar.
So when you hear about the dangers of corns syrup keep in mind that it's the amount that is the issue since both items have the same type of corn sugar.
But it would be pretty hard to eat 40 grams of sugar by eating 8 corns.
But it's very easy to drink multiple cans of pop, consuming hundreds of grams of sugar.
There's no point in our history when we would have consumed that much sugar in one sitting.
Most of that sugar will turn into fat and create a slew of health defects.
This isn't a medical article so I won't go to much into this but too much sugar is associated with inflammation, diabetes, heart failure and so on.
It's clear that the best thing you can do for your health and fitness is to severely limit your sugar intake.
Sugar in itself is not bad for you, it's actually critically important for proper cognitive and physical function.
The issue is, as with most things in regards to nutrition, is consuming it at excess.
When fat was the boogeyman consumers started demanding low fat options.
But low fat food tend to be bland in taste so manufactures solved that problem by packing their items full of sugar, which is tasty and cheap.
In essence they just traded on excessive energy supply for another, with the added caveat of sugar being highly addictive.
From a manufacturers point of view it was a major win to be able to produce cheap addictive foods.
But our increase intake of sugar has come with a major cost.
You can literally draw a correlating line that matches our intake of sugar with the rise obesity.
If you have any aspirations of being fit you will have to manage your sugar intake.
Excess sugar is added into most prepared food so you will have to learn to prepare your own meals.
This also means that you will have to avoid store bought juices and sodas as they are incredibly dense with sugar.
Again, the sugar isn't the issue, it's the amount.
Our body simply doesn't not have a way to manage that much influx of sugar.
To illustrate this point lets compare a corn cob and a can of pop.
one corn on the cob has 5 grams of sugar, while one can of pop has 40 grams of sugar.
So when you hear about the dangers of corns syrup keep in mind that it's the amount that is the issue since both items have the same type of corn sugar.
But it would be pretty hard to eat 40 grams of sugar by eating 8 corns.
But it's very easy to drink multiple cans of pop, consuming hundreds of grams of sugar.
There's no point in our history when we would have consumed that much sugar in one sitting.
Most of that sugar will turn into fat and create a slew of health defects.
This isn't a medical article so I won't go to much into this but too much sugar is associated with inflammation, diabetes, heart failure and so on.
It's clear that the best thing you can do for your health and fitness is to severely limit your sugar intake.
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