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March 30, 2009

Get your Body by Science

The Next Step After Fitness Training

This is for fun. The video below features The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, AZ. The owner, referred to as Dr. Jon, is Jon Basso who used to be in the fitness business. Jon got tired of helping people with their discipline, I suspect, so now he nourishes their fleshly indulgence. I understand his income has skyrocketed.

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Jon got in trouble with the Arizona Board of Nursing. They didn’t like his “naughty nurse” waitresses, protesting the “brainless sluts” projection. Ultimately, however, the board decided to not take any formal action.

Calorie Bombs -- More of Eat This , Not That

If anybody spots Matt Goulding at the Heart Attack Grill, you have a hot news item. Goulding is diet/nutrition editor at Men’s Health and co-authot of Eat This Not That. The segment below is from the CBN 700 Club, and Goulding lists the worst foods in America (and some better choices):

Our Greatest Calorie Overload -- HFCS

With the upturn in the outdoor temperature and thus more perspiration-producing activities you’re likely to reach for liquid refreshment. Drink water and don’t touch a soft drink.

There are many benefits of water and a zillion hazards with high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found in most sodas, fruit juice, baked goods, canned fruits, dairy products, cookies, gum, jam, jellies, pickles and many other processed foods.

Ice water burns calories to raise it to core body temperature.

An osteopathic physician, Dr. Joseph Mercola, writes on his website:

“Scientists have clearly linked the rising HFCS consumption to the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome in the U.S., and medical researchers have pinpointed various health dangers associated with the consumption of HFCS compared to regular sugar.”

Jordan Rubin, mastermind of The Maker’s Diet and architect of Perfect Weight America, says “The problem with HFCS is that the body handles fructose differently than all other sugars. Fructose does not stimulate leptin, the hormone that tell you “I’m full”. In fat, it reduces ghrelin hormone levels, which tell you “I’m still hungry”. Fructose propels the liver into fat-promoting mode by activating the formation of enymes that lead to elevated levels of “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides.”

In speaking about what to look for on food lables, Dr. Michael Roizen told Oprah the typical American can shed 33 pounds in a year by eliminating HFCS.

The average, 64-ounce "Big Gulp" non-diet sweet drink sold at convenience amounts to 800 calories. And if you listen to researchers such as Dr. Elizabeth Parks of the University of Texas, it goes straight to fat.

Dr. Parks was lead author of a study on fructose, published in the Journal of Nutrition:

"Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose. Once you start the process of fat synthesis from fructose, it's hard to slow it down. The bottom line of this study is that fructose very quickly gets made into fat in your body."

Additionally, authorities contend HFCS metabolizes to triglycerides and adipose tissue, not blood glucose. Elevated blood levels of triglycerides, known as hypertriglyceridemia, puts us at an increased risk of heart disease.

And one of the most thorough scientific analyses published to date on this topic found that fructose consumption leads to decreased signaling to your central nervous system from the hormones leptin and insulin which regulate how much food you eat, as well as your body weight.

 Decreased insulin and leptin signaling is also a main cause of diabetes and a host of other obesity-related conditions.

Fresh fruit contains natural fructose and includes enzymes, vitamins and minerals needed to assimilate the fructose. Fruit is not likely to be a problem for most people unless diabetes or obesity is an issue.

The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is waging a publicity campaign in defense of HFCS, setting up a website, SweetSurprise. Opponents would say this is like Phillip-Morriss defending tobacco.

If  this dispute interests you, a chiropractor and clinical nutritionist from Austin, Texas, Dr. Vincent Bellonzi  provides a 7-minute discussion addressing the claims of HFCS producers:

How About Sugar Instead?

According to Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest,  “If the food industry got rid of all the high-fructose corn syrup and replaced it with sugar, we’d have the same problems we have now with obesity, diabetes and heart disease.”

“It’s an urban myth,” said Dr. Jacobson, “that high-fructose corn syrup has a special toxicity.”

Neither ordinary sugar — sucrose — nor high-fructose corn syrup contains any nutrients other than sweet calories, and both are added in prodigious amounts to beverages and many foods that offer few if any nutrients to compensate for their caloric input.

“What consumers need to do is cut down on both,” Dr. Jacobson said. “Sugary foods either add calories or replace other, more nutritious foods.”

Food processors latched onto high-fructose corn syrup for several reasons. It is a more reliable and usually cheaper product, free of the price controls and trade fluctuations of sucrose. It is more stable in acid mediums like sodas and fruit drinks, and it prolongs the shelf life of more solid foods.

Diet Doesn’t Do it

So, what about diet soft drinks?

You’ll certainly conserve calories in the beverage itself.

“Non-nutritive sweeteners added to the diet have been shown to promote modest loss of weight and, within a multi-disciplinary weight-control program, may facilitate long term maintenance or reduction in body weight,” says the American Dietetic Association.

But it may make you crave sweets or, according to Purdue University researchers, “artificial sweeteners may disrupt the body's natural ability to "count" calories based on foods' sweetness.”

 In a study published in the July 2004 issue of International Journal of Obesity, the authors indicated that this finding may explain why increasing numbers of people are unable to regulate food intake and body weight. The researchers also found that thick liquids aren't as satisfying - calorie for calorie - as are more solid foods.”

Here’s a 3-minute video clip that sums up the situation:

Dizzy Spells Could Spell Bone Trouble

Having any dizzy spells? Check your bones.

Osteopenia patients have double the dizzies and osteoporotics have triple the incidence of benign positional vertigo.

Vertigo is caused by shifting debris in the inner ear canals made up of composite calcite crystals that have broken off from calcium carbonate deposits. Because bone contains 99 percent of calcium is in the bone, researches suspected a link.

In this recently published study out of South Korea, it was noted that women in their 50 ‘s seem more susceptible due to estrogen reduction.

Maybe There's Something to pH Balance?

This sounds like a gimmick, but it may be one whose accidental consequences are beneficial. The pH Miracle for Weight Loss is about balancing acid and alkaline. In doing so, it wouldn’t surprise me if you lowered your calorie level, and thus dropped some pounds. See what you think after watching Dr. Robert Young’s appearance on CNN:

Something For The Easter Party --Broccoli Salad

This recipe pairs broccoli, bacon and a dressing to make a sweet and sour Broccoli Salad You can lower the calories by substituting no-fat mayo, light cheese and leave out the bacon.

You can make this salad with raw broccoli or blanch it for about a minute to hold the color and soften the florets. But be careful to not leave the broccoli in the water too long. 

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