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Why (Refined) Sugar is Bad: Some References 2008-07-19 07:13:00 In my post We're all Junkies I ask the reader to go to Google and find the evidence for why sugar is bad.I did some digging myself this morning, and found a couple of sites which appear to be reliable sources.On Sugar
Addiction: Society for Neuroscience - this seems to be an organisation with a good reputation.On the damage sugar does: Mercola.com - whilst Dr Mercola is selling products, the refe
Cigarettes, Sugar and our Innate Short-Termism 2008-07-19 01:25:00 We continue to be amused by adverts from the 50s depicting smiling, young smokers and now deeply ironic catch-phrases (here's an example). There’s a sense in which we see those adverts as a reflection of our naïve past – how could we have been so stupid that we thought cigarettes should be promoted in this way? Yet the more profound irony - that we continue to permit their sale today – mean Read more:Sugar
, Short
We’re all Junkies 2008-07-17 02:46:00 I want you to try something. See if you can go for two whole days without consuming any sugar. Sound easy? I guess it depends what you think I mean by sugar.For the purposes of this challenge, sugar means ‘refined sugar’ – the stuff that comes in white or brown granules and has been created in a factory from sugar cane or sugar beet; but you can’t just stop putting sugar in your coffee for Read more:Junkies
Role the Dice 2008-07-13 01:29:00 So what am I afraid of? In a word, regret.I picture myself at the age of 60, having recently learned I have a condition that will see my quality of life deteriorate too quickly for me to come to terms with my death or its implications for those around me. I have never lost someone close to me or had to witness the deterioration of a loved-one’s health - but I know people who have and know that
Sometimes a video is worth a thousand words... 2008-08-02 00:39:00 Following yesterday's post asking about your most sarcastic response to questions about your 'funny diet', I wanted to share something many of you will already have seen but it's worth posting just for the few who haven't.It's easy to forget sometimes just how much research you have done and how much knowledge you have assimilated in the journey from a 'normal' diet to some kind of low carb diet. Read more:Sometimes
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The Friday Meme: You’re on that Funny Diet, Right? 2008-08-01 06:34:00 I get this a lot – and the range of sarcastic responses is so vast I am sometimes paralysed by choice. When that happens my colleague helps me out and says "No, he has a funny diet." This is the point at which most questioners wish they hadn’t asked.There is apparent confusion between diet as in ‘what I eat’ and diet as in ‘a campaign to lose weight over a set period of time.’ This is Read more:Friday
, Funny
, Right
Are we Underrating the Anecdotal? 2008-07-29 02:49:00 There is an ancient British superstition which says if a child rides on a bear's back it will be protected from whooping-cough. Perhaps it’s just as well we destroyed the bears and their habitat centuries ago or we’d have a serious health and safety issue on our hands.Such absurd beliefs can arise because of how we are programmed. There is a survival advantage to making associations between th
Cone Theory and the Mystery Doctor 2008-07-26 00:56:00 Barry Austin - heroicI once got talking to a doctor on a train about health, nutrition and longevity and was fascinated to learn about something called ‘Cone Theory
.’ Apparently, at any given time, a person’s physiology can be defined according to its current level of resource and the level to which the resource must drop for him or her to die. As we age, the current resource level slowly dr Read more:Mystery
, Doctor
When it comes to Nutrition, the Glass is Half Empty 2008-07-22 11:02:00 Being the sanctimonious type, I find my friends volunteering information about their diet without prompting. It comes
with the territory. You only have to harangue someone about their diet a couple of times and are forever thereafter assumed to be interested in what healthy food they have been eating.“I had some broccoli with my dinner on Wednesday and a salad yesterday for lunch,” was the st Read more:Glass
, Empty
Food Truth Leaks into Mainstream Media 2008-08-18 03:20:00 This is happening slowly but surely.This Sunday Times article will surely convince a wider audience of the validity of theories of nutrition hitherto dismissed as 'fad'. My only objection to this article would be that by using the word 'diet' in the title and by showing a picture of a tape measure, Appleyard perpetuates the belief that controlling body composition is something necessarily done at Read more:Truth
, Leaks
, Mainstream
, Mainstream Media
The Worst Sugar Pushers of all - Health Food Stores 2008-08-14 06:22:00 UK-based health food stores like Holland and Barrett and Julian Graves are selling garbage to us. These retailers masquerade as health food vendors but are no less cynically exploiting the junk food market than vilified organisations like McDonalds. Sure, these ‘health food’ stores also sell nuts, dried fruits, supplements and sundry other harmless products, but they also sell confectionary.I Read more:Sugar
, Health
The Professor Diet Part Three: No Shortcuts any Time Soon! 2008-08-14 03:00:00 In my post, The Professor Diet Part 2: Healthy Junk Food I asked whether in the future we would be able to eat one food and have it taste like another. For example, we might eat what looks like a slice of chocolate cake from the Nintendo range of foods but is actually a healthy meal. By wearing the Wii ‘sense’ headset at the same time, we would fool our brains into thinking the healthy meal ta Read more:Three
, Shortcuts
Five Great Health and Nutrition Quotes 2008-08-11 06:54:00 "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."~John MortimerI like this one because although wittly, it illustrates one misconception around health. Mortimer assumes that being healthy means living longer whilst incapacitated when in fact remaining healthy may be one of the best ways to avoid spending Read more:Health
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The Professor Diet Part Two: Healthy Junk Food 2008-08-08 06:46:00 Imagine this: you eat a piece of chocolate cake. It looks like chocolate cake, tastes like chocolate cake and has the texture of chocolate cake. Yet when you have finished eating it, you are not left with that wired, sugar-loaded feeling, and more to the point, do not experience the sugar low 30 minutes later.The reason these expected feelings did not transpire is that it was not chocolate cake
The Professor Diet - Eat as much Junk as you like 2008-08-04 06:34:00 Whenever I hear about some new drug or technique to tackle obesity or protect us from diet-related disease I always think of the professor from Futurama. For non-Futurama fans: the professor typically begins “Good news everybody!” before announcing some incredibly sophisticated, yet crazily inappropriate invention which has either fundamentally missed some basic point or is ludicrously over-en
Why is there Sugar in my Chicken? 2008-09-09 13:17:00 Like many food retailers, UK-based Marks and Spencer offer a range of cooked meats and fish. I sometimes take advantage of this when I haven’t time to prepare a meal myself – a cooked salmon fillet with a tomato and avocado make an excellent ad hoc lunch on a busy day.I was always aware that these cooked meats contain more than just meat. The ingredients often include salt, other preservatives Read more:Sugar
, Chicken
Why we must Sacrifice Diet Freedom for a Better World 2008-09-07 10:43:00 photo by slice“People have the right to make up their own mind about what they eat or don’t eat.”- Retailer Julian Graves, whom I accused in The Worst Sugar Pushers of All.I don’t disagree with this. People do have the right to make up their mind about that they eat - and thank heaven for that. At current levels of knowledge about nutrition, intervention by the authorities would probably d Read more:Freedom
, World
San Francisco Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake Shame 2008-09-05 07:40:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco
Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthySan Francisco
Part 2 - My ProxyCheesecake
ShameIn the Yosemite post I discussed
San Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and Healthy 2008-09-04 19:34:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco
Part 1: Stretching
the Definitions
of Natural
and HealthySan Francisco
Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake ShameI know this is supposed to be a
Yosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar Capers 2008-08-31 12:53:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar
PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemiteNational
Park - More Blood
Sugar CapersSan Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthySan Francisco Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake ShameIf what you're looking for is ch Read more:National Park
(More) About Me 2008-08-29 18:34:00 If you have seen the About Me page and wondered what the story is behind the pictures, you may be interested in reading this post on Fitness Spotlight...
Las Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food Labelling 2008-08-28 07:27:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas
- Supreme
Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthySan Francisco Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake ShameVegas was always going to be the Read more:Las Vegas
New York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security Threat 2008-08-26 19:48:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York
- Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar
PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthySan Francisco Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake ShameBefore we left New York, I discov
New York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar Pushers 2008-08-24 19:02:00 The Great Cake Porn TourNew York
- Limited Cake Porn but Plenty
of Sugar
PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthySan Francisco Part 2 - My Proxy Cheesecake ShameI have been disappointed by the c
The Great Cake Porn Tour 2008-08-21 15:08:00 The Great
Cake Porn TourNew York - Limited Cake Porn but Plenty of Sugar PushersNew York Part 2 – Another Sugar Pusher and Cake Security ThreatLas Vegas - Supreme Cake Porn and Absurd Food LabellingYosemite National Park - More Blood Sugar CapersSan Francisco Part 1: Stretching the Definitions of Natural and HealthyIf you are a regular to this blog you will have gathered that I am not in favour
Julian Graves Responds to 'Sugar Pushers' Post 2008-08-20 05:34:00 I was pleased to receive an email from a representative of JulianGraves
yesterday in response to my post The Worst Sugar
Pushers of all: Health Food Stores. Here is what they said:First of all, we are not a health food store and have never positioned ourselves as such. We market ourselves as a specialist food retailer.Secondly, we believe very strongly in the 80:20 rule – ie eat healthily 80% o
Tough Love - Reasons not to Quit You don't Normally Hear 2008-09-25 14:34:00 You read a lot of advice on how to stick with a program, whether it be a healthy eating plan, fitness regime, or giving up a vice. Invariably the approach is one of encouragement, seeking to nurture a sense of positivity and achievement. Whilst I do believe this approach is important, I think it would be refreshing to tell it like it is for once, warts 'n' all.So here is the alternative 5-step mot Read more:Tough
, Reasons
, Normally
Sugar in my Chicken Part 2: Marks and Spencer Respond 2008-09-24 06:59:00 Why is there Sugar
in my Chicken
(Part 1)Sugar in my Chicken Part 2: Marks and SpencerRespond
On Friday I received a response from UK Retailer Marks and Spencer to my post Why is there Sugar in my Chicken?In that post I published my correspondence with M&S on the reasons for sugar and salt being added to their roasted chicken. I included an open letter to M&S, in which I asked why they cou
High Fructose, Low Budget: The Alternative Advertisement 2008-09-20 01:45:00 Earlier in the week I suggested in my little man / big business post that if you didn't like the recent advertisements put out by the Corn Refiners Assocation then you could create a spoof of your own. Not one for giving advice I am not prepared to follow myself, I decided to do just that. Here it is. To see the original advertisements, click the 'Read More' link underneath.My Alternative
HFCS Ad Read more:Low Budget
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