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YES, YOU CAN EAT SUGAR (SEE THE TIPS)
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Yes, You Can Eat Sugar! 5 Nutritionist Hacks to Make It Healthier
Yahoo Health
June 25, 2015
Yes, there are ways to eat sugar healthfully. Experts explain how.(GIF: Getty Images/Priscilla De Castro for Yahoo Health)
Sugar has a bad rep for good reason: It’s a major culprit in our country’s biggest health problems. Too much of the stuff is linked to everything from root canals and mood swings to diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.
In fact, in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendedwe reduce our intake of free sugars (meaning sugar added to food and drinks, as well as sugar naturally present in fruit juices, honey, and syrups) to less than 10 percent of our total energy intake. And reducing intake to below 5 percent — about 25 grams (or six teaspoons) a day — would be even better for our health.
What is sugar, to begin with? It’s one of three main types of carbohydrate(the other two being fiber and starches, or complex carbohydrates). Thetypes of sugar include glucose (an energy source that fuels the brain and body, and is made when the body processes most carbohydrate foods), fructose (which is naturally found in fruits and vegetables, and can also be added to foods), and sucrose (also known as table sugar, and is made from fructose and glucose).
“We don’t need sugar to function, but we need complex carbohydrates — through whole grains, some vegetables, and legumes — in order to fuel our brain,” Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of nutrition services at Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, tells Yahoo Health. Without carbs, negative effects — such as fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and even a life-threatening condition called ketoacidosis — can occur.
But sugar, when consumed in the form of “bad for you” food, is not a necessary part of our diet at all, she says.
Sugar can be found naturally in foods — like fructose in fruit and lactose in milk — or it can be added when food is prepared or processed (hence the term “added sugar”). Food manufacturers may add natural sugars, like fructose and lactose (but these are not naturally occurring), and processed sugars, such as high-fructose corn syrup, to foods, explains nutritionist Keri Glassman, founder of Nutritious Life.
Take yogurt, for example. Depending on which kind you buy, there can be added sugar. But the form of sugar that is naturally present in yogurt is lactose. Meanwhile, “a natural sugar like honey can be turned into an added sugar if it’s added to crackers,” Kirkpatrick says.
The problem with all kinds of sugar — no matter where it comes from — is that after years of eating too much of it, insulin (a hormone that allows your body to use sugar as energy) becomes tired, Glassman explains. This can ultimately lead to insulin impairment or resistance, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, she says.
And that’s why you shouldn’t necessarily believe a food is healthy just because its label says it contains a “natural” sugar: “Sugar is sugar regardless, of how sexy it’s packaged,” Kirkpatrick says. “When consumed in excess, it can cause plenty of problems in our body.”
But is it possible to eat the sweet stuff in a healthy way? Beyond steering clear of the obvious culprits — syrups, cookies, and sweet pastries like doughnuts (double trouble for your heart because they’re usually fried in trans fats, says Kirkpatrick) — there are some basic rules to follow if you want to eat sugar smartly:
Pair sugars with fiber. Never, ever eat sugar alone — always have it paired, says Kirkpatrick. For example, have an orange and a few almonds, and not just an orange, because nuts have more fiber than the orange alone. “This will help slow absorption of sugar into the bloodstream,” Kirkpatrick says.
Why that matters: When something high in sugar is consumed, it increases levels of blood sugar and insulin, with higher sugar contents leading to higher spikes in insulin. Extreme ups and downs in insulin and blood sugar increase inflammatory factors in the body, which can lead to disease. But when sugar is more slowly absorbed into the bloodstream, it leads to more of a “hump” than a spike — which is a good thing.
Saturday, 30 May 2015
Men: It’s Never Too Late To Look Years Younger
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63 Yr Old Husband Uses Wife's Wrinkle Cream: The Results Will Amaze You.
There’s a reason why guys like Robert Downey Jr. and George Clooney manage to look better with each year that passes: They have access to Hollywood’s top skin advisors at their beck and call, giving them the best anti-aging tips to maintain their youthful good looks.
So what do regular men do when they want to look younger but don’t have access to celebrity skincare advisors? You won’t believe it.
I recently met up with Frank Rosen, a successful Mergers and Acquisitions attorney from Boston, Mass. Frank is 63 years old and doesn’t look a day over 45. He says getting the “Senior Coffee” special at his local coffee shop became such a hassle that now he just pays the full price in order to avoid the awkward “you’re not really that old! Let me see your ID” conversation with the barista -especially when there’s a long line behind him.
After a few minutes of staring in disbelief, I asked the question: “What’s your secret?!”
He laughed. “Well, I don’t tell very many people my secret because it’s kind of embarrassing, but I actually use something I found in my wife’s nightstand” he continued “Women have the patience to spend countless hours scouring the internet, magazines and doctor-based talk shows to find out what products their favorite celebrities are using and what actually works”
I couldn’t agree more. It made sense. “What did you use?” I asked. Containing my excitement was a daunting task.
“I began to religiously use a product called LifeCell All-in-One Anti Aging Treatment. My wife has been using it for 10 years and still looks just as beautiful as the day we met, so I figured what the heck? Let’s give it a shot. And guess what? I’ve never looked back. It has absolutely everything you need to look younger. Dermatologists swear by it and recommend it to their patients”
After my afternoon with Frank, I decided to dig deeper into what LifeCell was all about. I found that this All-in-One Anti Aging Treatment was formulated to reverse the look of wrinkles and sagging skin with a patented scientific cocktail of youth preserving ingredients that had undergone years of clinical and government testing that plastic surgeons don’t want the public to know about.
LifeCell is made up of carefully sourced amounts of Vitamin C, DMAE and Retinol that work together to reverse the signs of aging.
Frank told us that after just two weeks of using LifeCell, people at his firm were asking if he had “got some work done”. By the 4th week, everyone was convinced he had gone under the knife.
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Toronto student organizes ‘crop top day’ to protest school dress code
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WATCH ABOVE: Students in Etobicoke are protesting after a student was told to not wear crop tops. Student Alexi Halket tells Alan Carter how #croptopday came to be.
TORONTO – Students at a high school in Etobicoke showed up in crop tops Tuesday, baring their stomachs and shoulders in protest after school officials hauled 18-year-old Alexi Halket out of class to tell her the outfit she was wearing was inappropriate.
Halket said she was told by the principal at the Etobicoke School for the Arts on Monday that her top, a sleeveless, turquoise-and-black patterned crop top, was “inappropriate” for the classroom because it showed her bare midriff.
The teen created aFacebook page to launchher protest and was soon joined by others – both girls and boys – who planned to wear crop tops to school the following day.
On Tuesday, Halket told Global News she believed dress codes were created “to cover up girls so boys won’t be distracted in class.”
“I think it’s become normalized,” she said in an interview out front of her school. “And it’s something that we don’t really think about.”
Halket said she was frustrated she was pulled out of class because boys in the classroom might be distracted by her clothing choice.
“Female students are getting taken into the office because they are wearing a shirt that resembles a sports bra, but there are males in gym class and on the back field running around shirtless and that double standard is not OK,” she said.
Some took to Twitter using the hashtag #croptopday to post pictures of themselves wearing crop tops and post messages of support in solidarity with Halket.
The Toronto District School Board says students need to dress appropriately for school and what Halket wore wasn’t considered appropriate.
The school’s principal, Rob McKinnon, told the Canadian Press he sent teachers a note preparing them for today’s protests.
“I encouraged teachers to talk about this with their students,” MacKinnon said. “It’s about appropriate dress for this setting, not sexualizing students or objectifying them, but what’s OK in school.”
He added that he sat down with about 200 students in the school’s library to discuss the issue.
What’s appropriate for the classroom and what’s not has always been a contentious issue at schools. In Moncton, N.B. a teen was given detention for breaking her high school’s dress code after wearing a full-length halter dress.
Lauren Wiggins, 17, posted a photo of the floor-length dress, which revealed her shoulders, bra strap and upper back and a tattoo to her Facebook account.
In a letter to her vice-principal defending her choice of clothes she wrote: “if you are truly so concerned that a boy in this school will get distracted by my upper back and shoulders, then he needs to be sent home and practise self-control.”
She was ultimately given a one-day suspension for writing the letter.
Halket, meanwhile, continued to be defiant of suggestions made by teachers and her principal that she dress for a “professional environment.”
“I have to by law go to school, and so I feel like limitations put on myself because other people may be distracted or offended by something as simple as a shoulder, which shouldn’t be offensive or inappropriate at all, the fact that that is more important than a female’s education like when they are taken out of class, I feel like that is taking it a bit too far,” said Halket.
*With files from Global’s Alan Carter
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