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Diet Drinks or Not?
Are sugar substitutes harmful in diet drinks?
What are the real facts about diet drinks? You might be surprised. Ignore the hype and focus on the facts.
Now, before buying ALL of his thoughts, please DO check out this blogpost on a little known problem with aspartame-sweetened products.
Here is the information posted on Healthcare Triage’s YouTube page with references to the studies referred to:
Our episode on Organic food was a hit, but lots of you had questions in the comments asking about the safety of artificial sweeteners. We live to serve, so this week’s episode is about the research in that area. These chemicals get a bad rap, but you might be surprised by what you learn by watching. Send your hate tweets to Aaron. He’s used to them.
For those of you who came here looking for references, here are some:
- National Cancer Institute: Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer
- Artificial sweeteners—do they bear a carcinogenic risk
- Aspartame: neuropsychologic and neurophysiologic evaluation of acute and chronic effects
- Consumption of aspartame-containing beverages and incidence of hematopoietic and brain malignancies
- Are Artificial Sweeteners Really That Bad for You?
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Fast Weight Loss Is Bad — NOT
Tips you can use for weight loss success:
Writing down what you eat every day
… has been shown to double the speed of weight loss. Try it for just 7 days. Then let the scale speak for itself.
Another quick tip…
Commit to healthy eating and weight loss as a group
… with friends and/or co-workers. This will increase long-term success.
Defeat the double-whammy:
The food industry’s push to sell more “health scare” pairs with the industry’s push to keep you dependent on them.
More keys to success: Eat real and healthy food, act healthy, think healthy, have a healthy relationship with God and other people. You won’t get hooked by expensive and unhealthy “health food” choices at the supermarket, and succumb to depression and discouragement.
Five Fingers to a New You
Read Getting Started yet? No? Go back here now.
When I look at what food to eat, I look at my hand:
and ask myself if it’s…
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Real Meat – any kind
- Marbled or some fat on meat is fine. It’s actually essential for your body to burn fat and your system to work correctly.
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Real Vegetables
- With the exception of starches, particularly potatoes and rice. Seasonings and dressing? Oh, yes. Ranch is my favorite. Kinda like Pomegranate too. By the way, melted chocolate bars is NOT a dressing, just so you know.
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Real Cheese
- Surprised? Me too. But this one treat more as a daily snack in moderation … an ounce or less at a time … no processed cheese.
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Certain Nuts
- Almonds, pistachios, walnuts, macadamea nuts (1-2 oz) for snacks, and sunflower kernels are good as well.
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Eggs
- Two or three for a meal, or a hard-boiled one for a snack
If it’s on the list. I can eat it. Not on the list? It doesn’t exist. Sugars don’t exist. Starches don’t exist. Before opening cans of food, look on the ingredient list for sugars, corn syrup, starches, potatoes, rice and just say no. Sugary sweet desserts? Don’t even go near them!
Well … actually, I’ve learned to smell and enjoy some wonderful and yummy looking desserts and snacks. I just keep them away from my mouth. If it’s too much temptation for you, back to don’t even go near them!
What to drink? Preferably water, about 8 glasses a day or more. But you can also drink coffee or tea (cream and/or non-sugar sweetener is OK) or diet drinks, preferably sweetened by Stevia (like Zevia sodas), and if not available, a moderate quantity of Spenda sweetened beverages. Yup … you’ve heard bad about diet drinks (most of it does NOT apply to most people), but they are soooo much better than downing sodas or coffee or tea with sugar. However, most Aspartame (Nutrisweet) warnings leave out a pretty significant issue that can be quite detrimental to long term health.
Eat all three meals a day most every day. Don’t skip meals unless you just can’t help it.
Here’s Mike to help you understand what’s happening during this first week:
Full disclosure … I’ve never met Mike, but he’s been a huge blessing!
Have you gotten started already? Why not! Do it now!
Getting Started
Read Myths & Secrets yet? No? Go back here first.
Week ZERO … before you begin your new lifestyle …
Exact steps you should take before you start:
- Remove the wrong food so it’s out of reach. Clear out your fridge, your freezer, your pantry. If you hate to waste it, then throw a party and/or give the wrong foods to others around you who don’t believe you’re going to lose the weight. 🙂
- Set up a treadmill in front of your TV — Google an inexpensive treadmill … or get one on Craig’s list. $100-$150 should be fine. Why? So you can consistently walk for about 5 minutes a day … rain or shine … easily and quickly while you’re at home and it’s not a bother. Yeah, it’s that important. Not a grueling workout — walk for 5 minutes.
- Toss the scale to the side. You’ll hear Mike say to throw it away. OK, he’s a personal trainer looking at training your body. Personally, I’m wanting to lose weight, so I say to keep it. Just don’t weigh every day, expecting to be down in weight every day. Not gonna happen! Actually, you’ll have more ‘up’ days than down. Body weight fluctuates. Remember, you’re in this for the long haul. Instead, check it about once each week in the morning (after using the bathroom, and before eating or drinking). And keep a chart or an App (Argus is good) to record the dates ONLY when the scale shows a lower number. You can get false INCREASES just about any time of any day … but you can’t get false losses! And success tends to encourage more success, so only record the number when it’s lower. You’ll be amazed how consistently the numbers will fall. Here’s what mine looks like over the past 5 months.
Notice that long level spot in the downward chart? Yeah … about 2 weeks. Holidays at the relatives home for about 3 days … I explained the program I was on to the cook. She said “Great!” and then cooked 90% starch and sugar foods. It was good … I ate very modestly and avoided the worst of it, but as you read in Myths & Secrets, it shut down my fat burning and turned on the fat storage. Huge lesson learned.
OK… now you’re ready to get with the program. So what exactly IS the program? You’ve already heard in the videos. But here’s the recap … very simple. Very powerful:
Just remember: Five Fingers to a New You
Myths and Secrets to Weight Loss
Start with READ ME FIRST!Why, despite doing the “right” things … do my efforts to keep my weight under control not work? I’m such a failure!! I’m just too lazy. This will never work. I give up!
How many times have we ALL said these things? Too many to count? Feeling that sustainable weight loss is just not achievable? You’re not alone. Watch this:
Diet Myths:
- The Calorie Counting Myth
- The “Don’t Eat Fat” Myth
- The Low Carb Myth
- The Glycemic Myth
- The Motivation Myth
- The Starvation Myth
- The Burn-it-off Myth
- The “I’m too Lazy” Myth
- The Weight Myth
What Works:
- Ignore the myths and noise about weight loss and healthy eating
- Focus on the mental aspect — focus on simple routines and habits
- KEY is eating properly:
- Eat the right foods, your body will burn body fat and be healthy
- Eat the wrong foods, your body will create body fat and issues
- ANY processed starches and sugars will turn into fat. Avoid them all the time.
- Fruit sugar stimulates the body to create body fat. Avoid them until you reach your desired body weight.
How We Will React:
Doing these things forces the body to turn the body fat into fuel.
Conclusion:
Right now, your body is very efficient at MAKING fat. By following these guidelines, your body becomes and efficient fat BURNING machine. It takes time, and most important … DON’T CHEAT YOURSELF.
This all is useless unless you GET STARTED!