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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @06:57PM
Find a physical activity that you ENJOY.
Previously, I've mentioned dancing with a partner. [soylentnews.org]
In my experience, it's not that uncommon for technologists to get deeply involved.
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(Score: 1) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday August 27 2014, @07:39PM
That's all well and good, and obviously any physical activity you get is good or at least better than none.
However, many activities like that can fall short of being a truly sufficient aerobic exercise...that is maintaining say 75% of your maximum heart rate for 20 minutes.
Even more significant is that virtually no such activities are a substitute for weight lifting...not even sports. There's a reason that even the top athletes in all sports hit the weight room...because there is no substitute.
As you age this gets more and more important than anything in my opinion. The average male looses a full 30% of their muscle mass between the age of 50 and 70, and there's no ay to combat that short of very proactive weight resistant exercise. I've gained muscle mass between 50 and 60. There's a reason that a lot of very active people end up needing knee and hip replacements. It's because muscle protects joints. If you keep running into old age, or even worse, playing basketball of tennis, without very proactively keeping your muscle mass via weight lifting, you will beat your knees to death. The same can be true with hip problems.
Like I said, any activity is better than none, but there's no replacement for real exercise. And as I've said earlier, everything I do (I work out at home by the way) takes between 4 and 5 hours a week. The stuff people will tend to "enjoy" can burn up that much time in one day and totally fall short in terms of real benefit.
I stand by my position...there is no replacement. Just do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:55PM
maintaining say 75% of your maximum heart rate for 20 minutes
You need to find hotter partners. 8-)
The post that I linked contains links to some images of couples dancing.
If at least 50 percent of those babes don't get your pulse up, you should have your testosterone level checked.
-- gewg_