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this is a precursor to alzheimers disease
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Showing posts with label sugar drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sugar drinks. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

how sweet it its

HOW SWEET IT IS

when i was growing up my mother use to make
sugar syrup whenever we ran out of regular syrup
for our pancakes and homemade biscuits

she would boil water and add sugar to it
to get this clear sweet sugary syrup

it was good on homemade biscuits or pancakes

(why is sugar white anyway
i googled that
whoa that doesnt sound healthy-phosphoric acid
sulfur dioxide calcium hydroxide
maybe i want mine brown from now on)

so i tried to mix up sugar water
i took 10 tsp of sugar and added it to 12 ounces of rainwater
(at least the rainwater is good for you)

no matter how hard i tried i couldnt get it to all go
into a clear solution
was nature trying to tell me something

so i thought
what would happen if i drank that 12 ounces of sugar water
every day for a year
what would happen

lets see
10 tsp of sugar every day
that would equal about 3 lbs of sugar a month
35 lbs of sugar a year

how many lbs would i gain in a year if i drank this
sugar water or sugar syrup if i could get it all in solution
and didnt burn off the calories

i would gain 15 lbs in a year

well how many calories are in that 12 ounces of sugar water
theres 130 calories
so
if i drank this solution and then went for a run
how far would i have to run to burn off all those calories

40 minutes

so what if you filled a quart jar with this sugar water and drank
it every day
thats 400+ calories a day 200,000+ calories a year
thats over an hour or two of running a day to burn those calories off
you do the math for the weight gain in a year time
hint multiply 15 x 4

so guess what ill do is just not drink that sugar water but
instead will drink my pure rainwater

or
if you dont want to no mix this solution yourself
just drink a coke or soda a day
or
worse drink a big gulp a day

but either way plan time for running or
get a much bigger belt

maybe mr bloomberg knew what he was doing
and
why is coke doing all those healthy ads now
feeling guilty huh

the organicgreen doctor

Thursday, April 19, 2012

rethink the drink, seriously, bye

RETHINK THE DRINK

when you are thirsty you should drink water
thats what your body is programmed by nature to drink
to satisfy your thirst

if you get up and drink a latte then have a soda for lunch
then have a sweet tea for the afternoon then have a
ginger ale for supper
you have consumed close to 800 calories of sugar

do that for a month and youll get 24000 calories from
sugar
that means for you
fat on your behind and belly and thunder thighs

its this excessive sugar in many forms that is contributing to the
health problems in america
ie obesity
just look around its easy to spot

sugar comes in many forms
many times its hidden in the ingredient so us stupid consumers
wont know its there
heres some
high fructose syrup
fructose
fruit juice concentrate
honey
sugar
syrup
corn syrup
sucrose
dextrose

honey sweety its all sugar no matter what you call it
it is what it is

heres some sugar calorie content of things you drink in 12 oz
fruit punch 198
apple juice 192
orange juice 168
regular soda 136
sport drink 99
bottled sweetened ice tea 135
bottled water 0
organicgreen doctors rainwater 0

drinking a regular soda every day for a year can make you gain
14+ pounds
stop drinking that soda and youll loose 14+ pounds
what if you stopped drinking all those sugar watered drinks everyday
how much would you lose
you do the math
could it really be that easy

just stop the sugar drinks and drink water
and lose weight

dont drink fruit juices
eat the fruit instead
youll get more nutrition and fiber that way

it really is simple to do

SERIOUSLY
rick perry is thinking of running for president in 2016
seriously
hasnt he embarrassed us enough in this state
although he did provide a lot of material for the news and comedians
none of it good for him the state of texas or the republican party
surely he wont do it will he

BYE

well miss you
dick clark died
remember those days of watching him on american bandstand
got to see all those bands and singers
we didnt have the internet and all those cable stations
his show was watched by teenagers and young adults everywhere
and he did this for more than one generation
the show brought  all of us together with all of the new bands
miss you dick clark
thanks

the organicgreen doctor