Sugar is sugar. So they say.
Watching young athletes consume the overdose of sweetened drinks makes me wonder who will I get to play with when I am older. Will we lose still more people to the excess and addiction road we’ve unconsciously taken ourselves down?
Not being able to sense ourselves internally may also be a blunting of our self by what we eat. Can things go out of kilter without our awareness?
Dr. Mark Hyman, has written the 5 Reasons Why High Fructose Corn Syrup Will Kill You.
Did you know that mercury has been found in what we’ve been told is sugar?
Can heart disease, cancer, liver failure and tooth decay be stopped by the tooth fairy?
Will consuming more of this fake sugar improve our ability to be healthy or will we react with inflammation and wonder why all our other healthy activities aren’t enough?
Processing information internally is what somatics is about. The body experienced from within is hugely affected by what we think, how well or not well we move, and certainly from what we eat or don’t eat.
If you’re one of those people adding 140 pounds of sugar per year to your diet, then obviously you’ve advanced civilization since our hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed 20 teaspoons per year. Of course, they also walked on average 4 hours per day.
Quantity and quality affects our internal sense or blunts it out. Furthering our lack of awareness until the pains of our body shows up in interesting ways.
Most nutrition experts agree that sugar isn’t sugar despite what we’ve told.
Our kids on the other hand, think we’re crazy when we tell them this “stuff” because when they look around and see they can get a beverage right at school. What kind of learning message does this signal?
Even the teachers are being duped and we have to be the parents always saying no since every week there is too much sugar being given freely without understanding the consequences of the disease and epidemic of obesity by trying to please children and being fed mis-leading information.
For the sake of the young athlete and child, there are many more beneficial ways to help them live a good life, otherwise, people like myself will have job security since we already have enough people dis-empowered with poor health choices.
Read why fake sugar kills and pass it on.
