WHITE TRASH Blog Continued....

Good Afternoon Everyone,

        So I hope that everyone did well on last week's challenge!  At the end of this week's blog, there will be another challenge that you can add to what you are already doing.  It's OK if you were not able to get started with last week's challenge, because you can do both challenges together for this week.

        Now for the continuation on WHITE TRASH (again...we are talking sugar here) and what it does to your health.  First, lets talk again about the Adrenal Glands and what they can also do to your body if they are always running.  We already talked about their effect on the pancreas (resulting in poor digestion), but now lets talk about what the adrenals can do for weight gain and aging in your body.  This is simple, the constant adrenal activation results in the release of cortisol into the body.  Cortisol is a hormone that causes the body to store FAT, which is stored usually in the mid section of the body.  Now that the adrenals become exhausted, they will then stop producing DHEA which is your body's youth hormone....resulting in accelerated aging! 

       Moving on....Lets now talk about what excess sugar in the diet does to the stomach.  It lowers the acid level in the stomach which is a BAD thing!  Low acid levels in the stomach will not allow you to properly digest proteins.  This results in then having blood that is more acidic, and acidic blood will then pull minerals from your body's tissues (minerals are also pulled from bones which is a concern for osteoporosis!).

This week's take home message: 
1)  Excess Sugar = adrenal gland activation/exhaustion = increase in FAT storage + Accelerated AGING!
2)  Excess Sugar = low stomach acid = poor protein digestion = acidic blood = Mineral Deficiency resulting in conditions such as Osteoporosis + Overall Poor Digestion

This week's CHALLENGE:
      First continue with what you were doing from last week which is to cut at least 50% of known sugar from your diet.  Second, is to then write down everything that you eat during this week.  Then, try to find the gylcemic index and load for every food that you write down.  This can be done fairly easily by using google or any other major search engine.  Example:  banana -- glycemic index = 53 & glycemic load = 18

So what does that mean?  Glycemic index is good for anything under a rating of 55 & under and Glycemic load is good with a rating of anything 10 and under.  The glycemic index is a chart of how fast foods convert to sugar in your body and the glycemic load is the amount of carbohydrates that are in a portion of the food that you are eating.  Both are very important to understand how much sugar you are getting in your diet.    

Good Luck to everyone!

Yours in Health,

Dr. Jeff

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