360fit - Sugar - Poison for you Body

 

The average person eats 22.7 teaspoons of sugar a day. That’s a lot. In case you’re wondering that’s 77 lbs. of sugar a year! To give you an idea of what that is, my 11 year old son Reign weights 78 lbs.

Is this so bad? Hell yeah it is!

Your body is set up to eat very small amounts of sugar. Biologically we are not meant to eat much sugar. When we eat too much of it our bodies turn it into fat.

A big part of the reason the world is getting fatter is because of this huge amount of sugar we eat. That’s 22.7 teaspoons of sugar a day is an extra 363 calories a day. In other words that will make you gain an extra one lbs. every 10 days on average or an extra 36 lbs. of extra fat a year, year after year!

Most people think its fat which is making all of us overweight. It’s not always high fat which is causing the weight issues we are faced with. In fact we eat less fat than we did 20 years ago, but way more people are obese now than they were then. Most of the reason for that is the high sugar in our diets.

But that’s not the only problem. If it was just added weight gain that would be bad; but that’s not the only problem we have. Sugar does a lot of other things to your body too. 

Sugar also makes you feel slow and lazy. It gives you a little energy kick for about an hour, then you crash and feel tired and cranky. So a large part of the reason you are sitting on the couch watching TV with no energy is because you ate too much sugar.

This is a serious problem because it becomes a vicious cycle. You have less energy because of the sugar, so you do less, and eat more. This makes you gain more fat, which makes you do even less and eat more, and the cycle goes on and on.

The bottom line here is sugar does nothing good for you at all. If you want to have more energy, to lose weight and feel way better, cut your sugar down as much as you can. In a perfect world you should only get sugar from natural sources like fruit. 

Try cutting down your sugar intake. You will be surprised how much better you feel and look. 

-Devin Sherrington

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360fit - Blood Work for Health and Fitness - You Need It!

I've always felt there was nothing I couldn't do with my body.  I could throw anything at it, train as hard as I wanted, and it would bounce back and give me  more. Well maybe not so much.

For about the last seven years I get blood work done once a year. I think of it as a yearly check-up, like taking my car in for a checkup. About four years ago I found I was really tired for about two months. I mean tired like I had to lean on the counter when I got up after 8 hours of sleep; felt like I slept for 2 hours. 

So when I went for extra blood work. I figured it was just me not getting enough sleep or something.

That wasn't it.

My doctor called me and informed me that my testosterone levels were low. And not just a little low. A lot low. Average for men is between 8 and 20. Mine were 2.1. That's not good. She said it was the level of an unhealthy 75 year old!

But looking back at all my other blood work of the past  years we could see a trend. In Oct 09 it was 8.1, Sept 08 it was 8.6, and Sept 07 9.1. So basically I'd been low and getting lower for a long time.

What is more interesting is now my sister has found her testosterone levels are low as well, and my brother's are right on the edge of being too low! What's interesting is that my parents seem to be perfectly normal. 

Without the blood work each and every year we never would have known there was a problem, or that it has been getting worse for a while. That's why you need to get blood work every year without fail. Think of it as a check-up for your car. You need it or you won't run all that well.

And if you don't think it's important think of me. My whole job is to be healthy and I have problems! It's worth the your peace of mind.

-Devin Sherrington
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