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This is a great article by Rob Poulos of fatburningfurnace.com
100 percent fruit juice seems like it should be healthy, right?I mean, it's from real fruit...full of antioxidants and other great stuff from mother nature herself.
Even that old salty fitness trainer who pulls tugboats with his choppers has been telling us to 'juice it' for years.
But there's another side to fruit juice that's VERY UNHEALTHY, and can actually sabotage your ability to get or stay lean.
And, no, I'm not talking about KoolAid and other junk like that with 5% juice...this is the 100% juice we're talking about here.
(By the end of this newsletter, I'll also explain how to best use fruit juice in your phat loss or lean body eating
plan.)
So what is the problem with juice?
Well, there are 3:
1. Juice is EXTREMELY calorie dense. A typical orange, for example, has about 40 calories. A typical glass of orange juice has around 120 calories... that's 3 times the calories!
2. Juice has almost NO FIBER and will spike your blood sugar like crazy, causing FAT STORAGE.
Back to our orange... it has about 3 grams of fiber which helps slow blood sugar response form the 9 grams or so of sugar in it. That glass of O.J. has almost NO FIBER (stripped out in the juicing process) to combat the over 23 grams of sugar.
3. Juice's blood sugar spikes will make you hungrier...you'll end up eating more and more. While the differences between juice may seem small on a 1 to 1 comparison, keep drinking juice and you'll have a hard time losing phat and keeping it off.
Now, as I said, this doesn't mean you must cut out juice entirely...
One of the best ways I've found to enjoy the antioxidants and great taste of real juice is to simply add a SPLASH of your favorite juice to some ice cold water.
If you're a juice drinker, try it for a few days and you'll find your over-sensitive taste buds will adjust faster than you may expect.
I do this almost every day and it's become like a special tasty treat for Kalen and I.
If you're trying to cut out soda (that's a whole different newsletter!), take the splash of juice and add it to
carbonated ice water.
Don't forget you can also make your own fruit/vegetable smoothies as this won't strip out the fiber...just add some frozen produce to a good protein source and you're good to go!
Alright, so now that you know the TRUTH ABOUT JUICE, you've just knocked down another MISTRUTH on how to get and stay lean and healthy.
Now get out there and eat some real whole organic fruits and vegetables...just as nature intended!
Here's to getting lean, strong and healthy for life,
Rob Poulos
Zero to Hero Fitness
P.S. If you've got kids, they need to hear this too...and so do the schools... they've been cramming fruit juice down my daughter's throat for years. And while there are worse things in school lunches, I believe it is another reason the obesity rates in kids is still on the rise...
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Muscles and Bones
Muscles and Bones provide the framework for our bodies and allow us to jump, run or just lie on the couch. Here are a few facts to ponder the next time you’re lying around.1. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Unless you’re trying to give your face a bit of a workout, smiling is a much easier option for most of us. Anyone who’s ever scowled, squinted or frowned for a long period of time knows how it tires out the face which doesn’t do a thing to improve your mood.
2. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206. The reason for this is that many of the bones of children are composed of smaller component bones that are not yet fused like those in the skull. This makes it easier for the baby to pass through the birth canal. The bones harden and fuse as the children grow.
3. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. The cartilage between our bones gets compressed by standing, sitting and other daily activities as the day goes on, making us just a little shorter at the end of the day than at the beginning.
4. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. While you may not be able to bench press much with your tongue, it is in fact the strongest muscle in your body in proportion to its size. If you think about it, every time you eat, swallow or talk you use your tongue, ensuring it gets quite a workout throughout the day.
5. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone. The next time someone suggests you take it on the chin, you might be well advised to take their advice as the jawbone is one of the most durable and hard to break bones in the body.
6. You use 200 muscles to take one step. Depending on how you divide up muscle groups, just to take a single step you use somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 muscles. That’s a lot of work for the muscles considering most of us take about 10,000 steps a day.
7. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself. If you’ve ever chipped a tooth you know just how sadly true this one is. The outer layer of the tooth is enamel which is not a living tissue. Since it’s not alive, it can’t repair itself, leaving your dentist to do the work instead.
8. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. Lazy people out there shouldn’t use this as motivation to not work out, however. It’s relatively easy to build new muscle tissue and get your muscles in shape, so if anything, this fact should be motivation to get off the couch and get moving.
9. Bone is stronger than some steel. This doesn’t mean your bones can’t break of course, as they are much less dense than steel. Bone has been found to have a tensile strength of 20,000 psi while steel is much higher at 70,000 psi. Steel is much heavier than bone, however, and pound for pound bone is the stronger material.
10. The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones. You may not give your feet much thought but they are home to more bones than any other part of your body. How many? Of the two hundred or so bones in the body, the feet contain a whopping 52 of them.
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