WOD
This video has gained significant publicity over the course of the past year, even inspiring THIS article from the New York Times. The NYT article is a great read, very insightful. Give it a shot if you've got 10 minutes. For me, it posed the question, "How will we view sugar 50 years from now." Will society one day view sugar as we currently view tobacco and alcohol and recognize the substance as a huge health risk? Or will research indicate otherwise? Regarless of the outcome, these are the questions that need to be asked for at this moment, the literature does not exist.
Matt P
HEy everyone- according to The Facebook, it’s Blake’s 18th Brithday today!
Jennifer R.
I read the article and watched the whole lecture. The part that I find so amazing is that the long term studies needed to prove this are not complicated and they would be really helpful.
And they are just not being done.
This tells me that we are not serious about solving the problem.
The lecture is long but worth watching. Toward the end Lustig talks about the role of exercise in fighting obesity. He does not sell exercise as a way to burn calories, which I found really interesting. I have known intuitively that exercise keeps me from stress eating and was therefore essential to my own 50lb weight loss. But it actually doesn’t burn that much. One can easily out eat even marathon training program (indeed, many do!)
The program they use at the clinic Lustig manages is so simple. But we’re not doing it.
This means that there are powerful forces acting against these changes.
I am not sure who is going to read this on a Saturday evening, but I invite anybody who does to answer this question: Why don’t you give up the kinds of food that you know interfere with your health and fitness goals?
I know when I have a coke at work, it’s like having a beer. Things are shitty and I don’t wanna be there and a sugar bomb helps. It doesn’t happen that often and I don’t do it at home. But I sure used to when my home life was less tolerable.
Anybody else?
Matt P
Jen- at my work, cracking a beer is much more likely to happen than cracking a soda.
Jennifer R.
Ha ha! It’s probably better for you than the damn coke!
Stephanie
LOVE THIS VIDEO!! Thanks for posting Blake! I just tossed my cookie.