Have you ever watched the series \u2018Everest: Beyond the Limit\u2019 which chronicles several teams’ journeys to scale Mt. Everest?\u00a0\u00a0 People from all over the globe have planned for months, even years, to make an arduous\u00a0 journey that will last weeks, and if successful, will allow only a few minutes at the top of the world to enjoy the vista of their accomplishment.\u00a0 A FEW MINUTES.<\/p>\n
Surely\u00a0you can take some time to embark on a journey that will provide\u00a0more than a few minutes of satisfaction, actually a lifetime if you\u00a0let it.\u00a0 Committing to an exercise or walking plan and following a nutritional roadmap will lead to better health and will make you feel as if you ARE sitting\u00a0on top of the world.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s world is not an easy place to maintain good health.\u00a0 We are being bombarded by fast food, \u2018fake\u2019 food, ads promising quick fixes to ill health issues, environmental obstacles, and information that is at best incomplete and slanted, and at worst \u2013 inaccurate and misleading.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The goal here\u00a0is to give you the most complete and unbiased information about health, fitness, and nutrition you may not find elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Adopting better habits is never easy and can be overwhelming but if you attack it one step at a time, along with your walking and exercise commitment, you\u2019ll be feeling better within a couple of months.\u00a0\u00a0 You may find that becoming a new and better you is easier than you think.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s CHANGE: \u00a0ONE STEP AT A TIME: <\/strong>Cut down on sugar<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Sugar comes in many forms and hides in products you would never suspect, like mayonnaise, pickles, crackers and even your beloved Halfway House hot dog.\u00a0 Ketchup is loaded with it:\u00a0 you may as well eat a dish of ice cream and get some calcium instead of zero nutritional value.\u00a0 High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is even worse, which is in almost every processed food you can think of, especially breads and baked goods.\u00a0 Research indicates that your body processes HFCS differently than it does sugar or regular corn syrup and decreases human metabolism by messing with our metabolic hormones.<\/em> Your brain also doesn\u2019t get the message that you are full and in essence is tricked into thinking you need to eat more food and store more fat, which is exactly what we do not need.\u00a0 WHAT TO DO:<\/strong> Read labels.\u00a0 Any word ending in \u2018__ose\u2019 is probably sugar.\u00a0 Avoid dishes with glazes or sweet sauces.\u00a0 Buy bakery bread.\u00a0 Cook.\u00a0 Artificial sweeteners are not the answer either\u2026..more on that later.\u00a0Obviously, \u00a0John Daly did not lose weight drinking his storied and highly visible\u00a0Diet Cokes.<\/p>\n DID YOU KNOW: <\/strong>A 12-oz. can of regular pop or soda has anywhere from 10 \u2013 16 teaspoons of sugar.\u00a0 When you get the urge for a pop, choose 100% juice instead and water it down.\u00a0 Juice contains fructose, a natural sugar \u2013 but it is still sugar, so beware.\u00a0 Add an orange or lemon slice, strawberry or raspberry to your juice\/water and splurge.<\/p>\n When\u00a0you’re faced with a\u00a0hot and sticky day on the golf course, it is much\u00a0too easy to reach for an icy cold pop or beer and yes, it does taste great going down.\u00a0 But actually, you are adding to the dehydration which has already begun and you’d\u00a0need to drink twice as much water to make up the difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n Better still, bypass the chemicals, the calories, and the sugar and drink water instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getting healthy begins by getting rid of the excess sugar in your diet……and it is easier than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[4826],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-fun-and-fitness","tag-stop-and-think-before-you-drink-that-pop-or-beer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/janinajacobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}