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from the sweets-for-my-sweet,-sugar-for-my-honey-The-Drifters-1961 dept.
Lustig, the maverick scientist, has long argued that sugar is as harmful as cocaine or tobacco – and that the food industry has been adding too much of it to our meals for too long.
If you have any interest at all in diet, obesity, public health, diabetes, epidemiology, your own health or that of other people, you will probably be aware that sugar, not fat, is now considered the devil's food. Dr Robert Lustig's book, Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease ( http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/25/fat-chance-robert-lustig-review ), for all that it sounds like a Dan Brown novel, is the difference between vaguely knowing something is probably true, and being told it as a fact. Lustig has spent the past 16 years treating childhood obesity. His meta-analysis of the cutting-edge research on large-cohort studies of what sugar does to populations across the world, alongside his own clinical observations, has him credited with starting the war on sugar. When it reaches the enemy status of tobacco, it will be because of Lustig.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/24/robert-lustig-sugar-poison
I think moderation is the key. What do you think ?
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:28PM
Your dexterity point is well taken, I am not saying you have to play competitive sports!
Walking is just fine. You will just need more time than running for less, say.
But if your joints are not so good, try pool running. Knock a ball round. Play frisbee. Dance. Climb stairs. Make lurve, and help your partner...!
Use it , or lose it I cannot stress enough.
But being fit, reduces the chances of so many other things going wrong...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday August 27 2014, @02:34PM
Also, swimming. Someone upthread waxed lyrical about us eating what we have evolved to eat. Not sure if I agree about that, but if you want to take similar advice about exercise, then walking and swimming are the way to go: There's no doubt that as a species we are adapted to walking. It's less certain (but I'm convinced) that we are also well adapted to life by/ on the water. Our hairless(ish) bodies and our downward-pointing noses suggest this, but also the sheer joy that nearly every human being instinctively has for being near, on, in or around water. [1] Swimming is ideal exercise - uses all important muscle groups without impact. Go and swim.
And yeah, sex too.
[1] Some people lose this joy, but trust me, you had it once.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by migz on Wednesday August 27 2014, @05:53PM
Have you ever spent so long in water that your fingers went wrinkley?
Well when our fingers wrinkle like that scientific studies show that it increases our grip under water. Yep, we have evolved this uncanny ability because our ancestors spent time scrabbling about in water, probably looking for food.