You can’t escape hearing about how bad sugar is for you.
And it seems the barrage of bad press for the substance came out of nowhere. The tipping point seemed to be the FDA’s new labelling requirements that add a separate line showing how much sugar has been added to each food as a percentage of recommended daily intake.
Maybe the dramatic turn on sugar also stems from the fact that we’d been intentionally lied to for 50 years. From the New York Times:
- The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
- The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
It’s easy to get jaded about the “what’s bad for me this week” attitude that comes from the constant flip-flopping on things such as eggs, for example. That resulted from a better scientific understanding of cholesterol that cleared up misconceptions from earlier research.
And of course that whole “low fat” phase we went through was ridiculous. Apparently that resulted from the same move by the sugar industry decades ago.
The sugar scam reminds me of something another industry tried to say was harmless — cigarettes. You may find that comparison overblown, but if you look closely at sugar’s addictive nature, the amount we unknowingly (and knowingly) consume, and the danger that it represents to our health, it’s not that far off.
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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Brian Clark
Further
further: health
Pro-Portional
Do you ever go out to eat or grab a quick snack at the store only to find out that the snack bag or chicken salad was actually three servings not one? It’s so frustrating. What is a legit recommended portion size when it comes to a meal or a food group?
The Beginners Guide to Portion Sizes
In Recovery
Not seeing the results of your workouts? Chances are, you’re not eating (and drinking) the right foods and beverages to help your body recover, repair and improve so you can reach your health and fitness goals.
Straighten Up
If you work at a computer, good posture is important, but difficult to remember throughout the day. These three quick exercises help undo some of the effects of slouching at a computer for hours.
These Three Simple Exercises Improve Your Posture, Keep You from Slouching at the Computer
further: wealth
Do It In the Mix
Despite multiple studies showing the benefits, many people don’t know this learning trick. Mixing up your learning can lead to massive gains, a new study of academic performance reveals, and that can give you a career edge.
The Secret to Better Learning That Most People Don’t Know
Baby Steps
Nice essay on incremental change. Nothing is too big when you break it down into small steps.
Chasing Your Dreams in 10 Minutes a Day
Call of Duty
A productivity lesson from a video game? Yes, for once, video games are not killing your productivity.
A Productivity Lesson from a Classic Arcade Game
further: wisdom
Wired Inspired
There’s little question that inspiring media make the world a better place: Research has shown that we feel inspired to do good in the world when we experience a specific set of self-transcendent emotions, which include elevation, awe, and gratitude.
Who is Attracted to Inspiring Media?
Mindless Scenery
This piece reflects on part of the reason why I removed social apps from my phone. Partly because I started to loathe myself for constantly looking at my phone, and partly for the points raised here.
The Mindfulness of Social Photo Sharing
Happiness Heist
It’s quite easy to rob yourself of your own happiness. To make yourself more miserable and add a big bowl of suffering to your day. It is common thing, people do it every day all over the world.
7 Small Habits That Will Steal Your Happiness
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