Expounding on those "Wise Ideas" mentioned earlier
In the "Some wise ideas" post of a couple of weeks ago I pointed out a webpage that encouraged you to "2. Eat fresh food" because it "improves your health and supports local farmers." Well, it seems that simply pointing that out alone is not enough. There's more to it than just the concept of "eating fresh food".
I was pretty amazed to recently discover some details about our sugar habit in the U.S. What I discovered is mentioned in this article. An important point being "In 1816, the average sugar consumption per person was 15 pounds per year. In 1955, the average sugar consumption was 120 pounds per year. Now in 1990 it is about 180 pounds per person per year. This is equivalent to half a pound per day per person." And that was 1990!! What would that be today?? I wasn't able to locate details very quickly, except one note that teenage boys TRIPLED their soda consumption in about that same time period.
So what does that mean for you? It probably means that taking the simple step of looking at your processed sugar consumption can help get you well on your way to eating better. There are books to consider referencing to find out more. "Sugar Blues" is one of them. I also located this article that touches on the health related issues of sugar consumption.
It's important to realize the rapid change in sugar consumption that has happened over a comparatively small amount of time (say 200 years of the last hundreds of thousands of years) has far outpaced our body's capabilities to adapt to that change. Our bodies simply aren't meant to process this level of sugars.
So I'll finish by letting you in on this article, and leave you to consider what it means to your life. Hopefully it means you'll live a healthier and more enjoyable one!
I was pretty amazed to recently discover some details about our sugar habit in the U.S. What I discovered is mentioned in this article. An important point being "In 1816, the average sugar consumption per person was 15 pounds per year. In 1955, the average sugar consumption was 120 pounds per year. Now in 1990 it is about 180 pounds per person per year. This is equivalent to half a pound per day per person." And that was 1990!! What would that be today?? I wasn't able to locate details very quickly, except one note that teenage boys TRIPLED their soda consumption in about that same time period.
So what does that mean for you? It probably means that taking the simple step of looking at your processed sugar consumption can help get you well on your way to eating better. There are books to consider referencing to find out more. "Sugar Blues" is one of them. I also located this article that touches on the health related issues of sugar consumption.
It's important to realize the rapid change in sugar consumption that has happened over a comparatively small amount of time (say 200 years of the last hundreds of thousands of years) has far outpaced our body's capabilities to adapt to that change. Our bodies simply aren't meant to process this level of sugars.
So I'll finish by letting you in on this article, and leave you to consider what it means to your life. Hopefully it means you'll live a healthier and more enjoyable one!
posted by Reinvent Your World | 10:23 AM
1 Comments:
And imagine how that impacts the acidity level of our body as it is digested? ridiculous I agree. Somebody out there says that we shouldn't eat anything that has more than 5 ingredients and best case scenario is to eat on single ingredient items. Seems to make good sense to me.
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