Sugar Sugar

Honey, ah sugar sugar,....
You are my candy girl, and you've got me wanting you.


You know the rest.

And it's a sad fact that sugar is the origin of many of our problems, personally and as a society. Not only is obesity a personal problem, it is a societal problem.

Gary Taubes did us a great favour with his research on obesity and its patterns and causes. Were it not for him, we would still be thinking that low fat diets were the Greatest!

While exercise is a must for every human being who can do it, it is more important how you eat. If you exercise at a high rate every day, but eat a high carb diet with lots of saturated fat in it, chances are you will have high triglycerides, low HDL and high LDL. You probably have a bad level of C reactive protein as well, which is an indicator of how much inflammation you have in your body.

More and more, research in places like Harvard and Duke Universities is pointing to inflammatory processes and the size of your LDL particles as good indicators of your risk for cardiac disease. And researchers are realizing that "good fats" are important in lowering some of that risk.

A lot of these risk factors are related to the amount of sugar in your diet. High glucose in the blood throws everything off.

Heck, I would even bet that women with problems with their periods that is blamed on perimenopause and other such things, are probably insulin resistant and if they embarked on a program of walking and taking something like Metformin, their problems would stop as their insulin resistance decreased. It happened to me, but I don't want to generalize to a population. My doctor was absolutely skeptical at first, but no longer. She has studied hormones and now thinks that high blood sugar is the cause for many problems.

Want to change one thing in your diet? Reduce the amount of carbs you ingest. Switch to sugar free pop, eat an egg or egg substitute for breakfast instead of that cereal from a box, and look at the yogourt and fruit that you eat, and think about how many carbs are in them. The fewer carbs, the better.