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Who is spoiling your kids ROTTEN?

Who is spoiling your your kids ROTTEN?Dob in your family’s Sugar Bandit.You might be doing the best you can to raise your children with less sugar but someone is lurking in the background to tempt them with a 'treat'.I regularly hear this from parents trying to set the example at home but the children spend time with others and the good example comes unstuck. It can be other members of the family in the house, grandparents are often shockers or the extended family. Then there is the school, kids parties and sporting functions. The amount of lollies at little athletics and football (all codes, so as not to offend anyone :) ) or like events can be diastrous.Here is your chance to 'Dob in your family’s Sugar Bandit.'Poor dental hygiene results in dental caries (holes in your teeth) and gingivitis (inflamed gums). All of this sets you up for a lifetime of problems.Sugar consumption is implicated in this and particularly the "frequency of that sugar consumption was far more important in influencing dental caries than the amount."This is a recent campaign fro the Australian Dental Association. The dentists have been campaigning against sugar for a long time.More from the dentists at http://www.dentalhealthweek.com.au/and a link to some articles at at http://www.nofructose.com/health-issues/dental-disease/

Dob in your family’s Sugar Bandit.

You might be doing the best you can to raise your children with less sugar but someone is lurking in the background to tempt them with a ‘treat’.

I regularly hear this from parents trying to set the example at home but the children spend time with others and the good example comes unstuck.

It can be other members of the family in the house, grandparents are often shockers or the extended family. Then there is the school, kids parties and sporting functions. The amount of lollies at little athletics and football (all codes, so as not to offend anyone ) or like events can be disastrous.

Here is your chance to ‘Dob in your family’s Sugar Bandit.’

Poor dental hygiene results in dental caries (holes in your teeth) and gingivitis (inflamed gums). All of this sets you up for a lifetime of problems.

Sugar consumption is implicated in this and particularly the “frequency of that sugar consumption was far more important in influencing dental caries than the amount.”

This is a recent campaign fro the Australian Dental Association. The dentists have been campaigning against sugar for a long time.

More from the dentists at http://www.dentalhealthweek.com.au/

and a link to some articles at at http://www.nofructose.com/health-issues/dental-disease/

 

Pudding for the Poms Prompts Poor Performance?

Christmas puddingThat Christmas pudding laden with sugar and carbs may not have helped the English cricket team in the Boxing Day Ashes test match. Or was it the lack of a sugar binge on Christmas day that helped the Australian team to go 4 nil up?

Clearly the change in diet for most of the Australian cricket team this year to Low Carb (low fructose) and high fat is not ‘proof’ that diet alone will turn a team performance around. Nor is that Christmas pudding enough to cause the demise of the English cricketers.

None of this is ‘Proof of the Pudding’ that diet is the answer but the Australian cricketers who have adopted this eating strategy have all improved their weights, lean body mass and skin folds – with a better mental attitude and now performance results.

The USA LA Lakers basketball team have switched over to this change in eating in the last few months.  Norwegian football club Strømsgodset (champions in 2013) have flipped over too into this more efficient ‘fuel’ for the system.

The ‘Proof of the Pudding’ is there for you to experience yourself. May 2014 bring in a real change in health and well being for more of us.

LA Lakers

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken-berger/24370416

Norwegian football club Strømsgodset

http://www.dietdoctor.com/football-champions-low-carb-diet

‘Greed’on for Freedom Foods 3 Ancient Grains Muesli

Photo: ‘Greed’on for Freedom Foods 3 Ancient Grains MuesliBlatant ‘Fructose Free’ mislabelling from a company that labels their food as ‘Honest’. This is straight out deception trying to market a product.‘Fructose Free’ and ‘No Fructose Detected’ yet the muesli bar has Sucrose in it which is 50% Fructose.It gets worse. It states on the label:‘Peanuts Not Detected, Hazelnuts Not Detected and Almonds Not Detected’I would expect that as they are not in the ingredients. It’s a bit like advertising there is no alcohol in a glass of milk. Why put it on the label unless you are trying to market something. All this does is confusing the buyer who reads the front packaging and sees the advertising.PS. This ‘Honest and Nutritious‘ food also contains Seed oil.Freedom Foods destined to the sin bin on this one. Shame to criticize an Australian product but there is too much deception out there already.More on reading food labels at:http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/looking-at-labels/

Blatant ‘Fructose Free’ mislabelling from a company that labels their food as ‘Honest’. This is straight out deception trying to market a product.

‘Fructose Free’ and ‘No Fructose Detected’ yet the muesli bar has Sucrose in it which is 50% Fructose.

It gets worse. It states on the label:
‘Peanuts Not Detected, Hazelnuts Not Detected and Almonds Not Detected’

I would expect that as they are not in the ingredients. It’s a bit like advertising there is no alcohol in a glass of milk. Why put it on the label unless you are trying to market something. Continue reading →

Back to the Modern Fruit Question

 
Photo: Back to the Modern Fruit QuestionMany groups including dieticians, weight reduction schemes and some advisory bodies keep pushing the fruit barrow. The ‘modern’ fruit barrow is not what it was. It is laden with a variety of fruit that cannot be local. I have friends who can remember getting a single orange as a child in their Christmas stocking as a special treat.I have nothing against fruit and still believe that there is plenty of goodness in fruit. To me, however, it should be up to ONE piece of LOCAL and SEASONAL fruit per day.It is better than a lot of refined sugar in food but fruit still has a fair load of fructose. And that equals a load that can be reduced particularly if you are trying to lose weight.I believe fruit makes you hungry. How many of you can eat just one grape if you have a bunch in front of you? Just try doing one strawberry. Even an apple can leave you hungry. That’s what they are designed to do. There are about 3 teaspoons of sugar in each banana and orange, a couple in apples, peaches and nectarines, about 1 per strawberry or grape.The natural source of sugar is fruit and we are meant at a primitive level to search for that sweetness generally at the end of summer, gorge upon the fruit and elegantly metabolise it to fat for winter storage. Simple as that. The trouble is we now have some form of sugar 3 times a day, 365 days a year and wonder why we are making fat every day along with its metabolic consequences.Most modern fruit has been ‘designed’ for a higher sugar content, lower fibre content , with a thinner skin and greater water content to make it ‘juicy’. This is all about marketing, transportability, shelf life and profit.There is nothing ‘natural’ about bananas in Tasmania or stone fruit in Northern Queensland at any time of the year. Most fruit juices have about the same amount of sugar in them as Coca Cola or Lemonade. Even those smoothies from juice bars are about the same but at least still have the fibre within them.My issue is not with eating whole fruit as much as it is with the quantity and frequency that we currently take in. It is juiced, concentrated, dried and added to a variety of foods and marketed as ‘natural sugar’. The concentrated sugar and lower fibre content with additional processing mean to me that Modern fruit is different.Have you noticed that the fruit that falls off your trees in your backyard is rotten within 24-48 hours whereas the ‘Modern’ fruit you buy from the supermarket is still fresh a week to 10 days afterwards? This is not the fruit of my childhood.Fruit has been around for billions of years but most of our early exposure as cavemen was around the tropics in Africa 50000 - 60000 years ago. My reading around this topic points to a variety of fruits being competed for by humans, birds, animals and insects. As humans we probably learned as much from observing the animals.The wild fruits varied in availability, size and taste depending on the tree, soil type and obvious environmental factors. The skins were often thicker and the fruit dryer. Then there was the aspect of transport and availability. No racing down to the supermarket and filling up the SUV with juicy, perishable fruit from another country.Modern fruit production includes soil management, controlled environments and a variety of chemicals to produce the quantity and consistency required for the modern supermarket. I have heard that the fruit has to unblemished. That’s just not ‘natural’.Our current fruit production also uses varying degrees of chemicals. Once harvested in commercial enterprises it is often coated with chemical to protect the outer skin, then placed in vacuum storage rooms rich in oxygen and then cooled down to a core temperature of about 0 degrees. This process obviously varies from fruit to fruit and location but a process occurs. The fruit is then stored in cool rooms and distributed on as required. Many fruits are stored for 12 months before reaching our tables.Remember that it is nearly impossible to avoid Sugar and Fructose in our diet. The trick is to recognise where it is, what it is and minimise it over the long term.Support your local farming community and buy local, seasonal and fresh.More about fruit and eating at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/fruit/I came across this blog from Denise Minger from 2011 who writes about ancient fruits. You might be interested.http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/

Many groups including dieticians, weight reduction schemes and some advisory bodies keep pushing the fruit barrow. The ‘modern’ fruit barrow is not what it was. It is laden with a variety of fruit that cannot be local.

I have friends who can remember getting a single orange as a child in their Christmas stocking as a special treat.

I have nothing against fruit and still believe that there is plenty of goodness in fruit. To me, however, it should be up to ONE piece of LOCAL and SEASONAL fruit per day.

It is better than a lot of refined sugar in food but fruit still has a fair load of fructose. And that equals a load that can be reduced particularly if you are trying to lose weight. Continue reading →

Modern Fruit is Not Natural

rotten fruit

 

We are at that time of year when our LOCAL fruit trees are having their SEASONAL crop.

Have you noticed that the fruit that falls off your trees in your backyard is rotten within 24-48 hours whereas the ‘Modern’ fruit you buy from the supermarket  is still fresh a week to 10 days afterwards?

There is nothing ‘natural’ about bananas in Tasmania Continue reading →