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Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com)
turp182 writes: As reported in TIME and other news sources, a recent study found that reducing sugar intake in obese children caused several biological health markers to improve over a short period of time (9 days). Summarizing the results: "Overall, their fasting blood sugar levels dropped by 53%, along with the amount of insulin their bodies produced since insulin is normally needed to break down carbohydrates and sugars. Their triglyceride and LDL levels also declined and, most importantly, they showed less fat in their liver."
The full study is available online.
My fiance has cut sugar out of her diet and found that her general mood is much happier and more consistent. After a day of eating sugar she would be really depressed and down, low energy and such, but now she has more physical and mental energy on a normal basis. That sugar crash really is killer!
For over a decade now, Dr. Eades clinic has done years of diet research with their patients and have been able to reduce and even eliminate in many cases Type II diabetes with mere diet change. (tl;dr; paleo-ish). They've done bloodwork on thousands of patients and have shown that in as little as two weeks and even sometimes less, switching to their recommended diet allowed nearly all blood markers to return to within normal, healthy ranges, including cholesterol.
Yudkin's book "Pure, White, and Deadly" was published in 1972 advising from the then already-currently-known-studies how dangerous sugar was in the human diet--and this was *before* sugar consumption in the West increased 5-10-fold, and before the advent of the even-worse HFCS experiment on the entire population began.
The body is a remarkably self-regulating and healing machine. It's amazing we can survive for as long as we do with continued toxin intake (and even the chronic effects for the vast majority are manageable)--and yet not surprising to me in the least that the body can return itself to a much healthier state so quickly after the toxins cease to be ingested. Our bodies want, really badly, to regulate into a healthy state.
Getting people to understand that our modern diet consists of slowly poisoning ourselves is the real battle to fight.
I gave up sugar and I became very angry as I went through what can only be described as withdrawal symptoms. Eventually I started eating again after a few months. I noticed almost everything we eat is super sweet. Fruit tastes like candy and soda was not palatable. Health benefits was everything mentioned except LDL which stayed high. Still a fun experiment.
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I heard a segment on America's Test Kitchen who presented a general summary of his research that essentially said that the people with the longest lifespan tend to have the lowest lifetime caloric intake. He noted clearly there is a cut off point to the benefits of eating less, but eating less of everything over a lifetime is indeed a positive as long as you aren't starving your cells of what they need. At this point, I've forgotten the author, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you don't mind risking your heart health with an increase in your sodium intake...
I eliminated sugar, wheat, caffeine, and dairy. I lost 80lbs, cut my risk of heart disease by more than half (per blood labs) and my hair started to grow back (vitamins and meditation help to a lesser degree). I was able to start running and lifiting and the ladies are way interested. But go ahead and munch on Doritos and Mt. Dew if you prefer - a goatee should compensate.
Oh, and I have literally hundreds of delicious dishes I can make without doing any foraging. Just shop the outer perimeter of the grocery store and experience real food.
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It is changed per demographics thus the qualifier. And no, it's not all being written off - it's more subtle than that. Additionally... One of the reasons they like produce (and the bread) is because the smell. The smell makes you salivate and makes you hungry. So there's that aspect as well. It doesn't, however, really run at a loss in the end of the year accounting. The pre-packaged bread stuff is actually pretty profitable as are the pre-packaged snacks but that's a whole other topic.
During certain times of the year they may need to just write their losses off which makes it balance, for the quarter, on the books. As an aside, as I understand it, they actually get more from writing it off which is why much of it isn't donated even though there's some small amount of shelf life left. There are also certain times of year when the produce section is quite profitable (this varies by grocer). Those that can get local produce save a ton and actually often charge more for it. Over all, if I recall correctly, only a small portion of the year and only certain items are at a loss and the whole thing tends to be pretty profitable compared to the bakery and fresh dairy.
I'm not sure when you worked at Publix, specifically in Florida, but you may have noticed they did a design change in 2006-2008 region. I'm unable to disclose who did the work on that. I can say that I'm sort of familiar. ;-) They're trying something new and I don't know what the results have been. They were changing some stores, see the panhandle region, to put some of the dairy in center and not too far from the front. However, walking there, that's another matter. Unless you cut through the checkout counter (usually full or blocked by the little plastic chain if not busy or has traffic in it) then check the layout again. You'll probably find it takes you about the same amount of time to reach as it would for any other store - and they still shunt traffic off to the right, where available - though some additional designs were to be tested. It's actually not too difficult to shut a store down for a two week span and re-do the layout. Properly done, they can still keep the door open if it's not a huge remodel.
As I said, I don't know the newest metrics or what's changed in the design phase which is why I asked for a citation. I also don't know what Publix has done but I am curious. There's one of the "newer" model stores, a good size store, just across the bridge into Panama City Beach. It's down on the left - like you're headed out to the golf courses and State Park. If you get curious and are in the area, check that one out. They used the above mention model - where you can see stuff but still need to walk around to get it. Hint: You're meant to be distracted by the pretty colors and then the smell that hits with the bakery which should be on the right as I recall. There's probably a big barrier between you as you go to the right, that's there for a reason.
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