One of the biggest offenders is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a very common sweetener added to loads of foods (maybe most of them, even things like peanut butter). It affects the body differently from real sugar and apparently does not trigger the satiation response, so people feel hungry and keep eating. The rise in obesity in the US…
One of the biggest offenders is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a very common sweetener added to loads of foods (maybe most of them, even things like peanut butter). It affects the body differently from real sugar and apparently does not trigger the satiation response, so people feel hungry and keep eating. The rise in obesity in the US (and now around the world) tracks closely to the introduction and spread of HFCS use in processed foods. Our diet is killing us.....
One unintended consequence of this "expansion of our horizons and waistlines" is that the "average" weight for men and women has been inching up (no pun intended, but there it is) so that now people are "average weight" this year who would have been overweight or even borderline obese 40 years ago..... And excess weight (and I am 50 lbs over my desired weight) not only makes clothes fit worse - it also over-stresses the joints and can exacerbate arthritis, as well as lead to other diseases and conditions, a depressing litany of which can be found by consulting Dr. Google.....
The Bride and I are cutting down the meat we eat, and what we do eat is usually chicken or fish, though I do like lean deli-cut roast beef in sandwiches. I got a vertical climber ans will probably die on it..... I admit I do not have a moral problem eating meat - the animals would not exist except to be eaten, but obviously, their being raised and killed for food must be as humane as possible. But eating plants also takes life, just a different form of life. As Euell Gibbons said to Johnny Carson eons ago (I was there when the earth cooled), there is as much life in an onion root tip as there is in a calf, just different life.
One of the biggest offenders is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a very common sweetener added to loads of foods (maybe most of them, even things like peanut butter). It affects the body differently from real sugar and apparently does not trigger the satiation response, so people feel hungry and keep eating. The rise in obesity in the US (and now around the world) tracks closely to the introduction and spread of HFCS use in processed foods. Our diet is killing us.....
One unintended consequence of this "expansion of our horizons and waistlines" is that the "average" weight for men and women has been inching up (no pun intended, but there it is) so that now people are "average weight" this year who would have been overweight or even borderline obese 40 years ago..... And excess weight (and I am 50 lbs over my desired weight) not only makes clothes fit worse - it also over-stresses the joints and can exacerbate arthritis, as well as lead to other diseases and conditions, a depressing litany of which can be found by consulting Dr. Google.....
The Bride and I are cutting down the meat we eat, and what we do eat is usually chicken or fish, though I do like lean deli-cut roast beef in sandwiches. I got a vertical climber ans will probably die on it..... I admit I do not have a moral problem eating meat - the animals would not exist except to be eaten, but obviously, their being raised and killed for food must be as humane as possible. But eating plants also takes life, just a different form of life. As Euell Gibbons said to Johnny Carson eons ago (I was there when the earth cooled), there is as much life in an onion root tip as there is in a calf, just different life.
Dopamine’s effect I think. Sugar is like a drug.