THE SOLUTION TO AVOID DAMAGE How Sugar Harms Your Body
The Solutions Fat is a neutral food when it comes to secreting insulin, and it helps you feel full longer. Increase your consumption of healthy fats with avocado, raw unsalted seeds, and nuts (macadamias, pecans, Brazils), Kerrygold butter, organic coconut oil, hormone-free beef, fatty fish like salmon, uncured bacon (no nitrates), aged cheese, and organic eggs. Eat lots of leafy green vegetables like spinach, romaine lettuce, field greens, and cruciferous vegetables (plants from the cabbage family) like kale, Swiss chard, collard greens, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and radishes. These veggies provide lots of needed nutrients and fiber, and they replenish your potassium, which stops cravings. Potassium-rich foods also help lower the effects of insulin to minimize fat storage. Include high-potassium foods like avocado, broccoli, mushrooms, salmon, beets, beet tops, and kale. If you use sweeteners, use the herb stevia (no maltodextrin), a 100% non-GMO sweetener called erythritol (NOW is a good brand), or non-GMO xylitol (extracted from birch wood). These three sugar alcohols do not stimulate insulin. These lifestyle changes will increase your energy, reduce your weight, and help minimize future health problems so you can continue to chase your dreams!
Many factors affect your metabolism (the conversion process of food into energy), but sugar is the most harmful. During my certification in clinical nutrition, we tested sugar’s effects. I was shocked at how toxic even a single grain can be! All aspects of your health — especially how efficiently you burn fat — are enhanced by the absence of sugar. Cut out sugar and those foods that quickly become sugar, like refined carbs (bread, pasta, cereal, fruit drinks, etc.), and you’ll automatically trigger hormones that burn fat and accelerate your metabolism. Sugar triggers insulin, a fat-producing and fat-storing hormone that blocks fat from being burned as fuel. No fat is burned in the presence of insulin. As your insulin level rises, resistance occurs in your cells (insulin resistance), which advances to prediabetes and eventually Type 2 diabetes. As many as 70% of Americans are prediabetic, and at younger ages than ever. Most processed foods contain hidden sugar, too. Unless your diet consists of whole foods, your health and weight control are compromised. So-called “healthy” grains, like whole-wheat breads and cereals, stimulate insulin and block fat burning. Artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, saccharin, and MSG, cause increased sodium and fluid retention. To digest sugar, potassium (a mineral) in your cells increases fluid retention, making you feel swollen, bloated, and thirsty.
STRAY DOG OUTSMARTS FATE AND SAVES HER PUPPY’S LIFE
When our furry friends get sick, it’s up to us to bring them in for a veterinary appointment. It’s part of the responsibility of being a pet owner, but stray animals have no owners. Who takes care of them when they most need it? Sadly, help is beyond their reach in many cases. However, some dogs won’t let anything stand in their way, especially if it’s a difference between life and death. In January 2025, a stray mother dog noticed her puppy stopped moving and jumped into action. Without an owner to guide her, the mother brought her baby to a local veterinarian clinic in Istanbul, Turkey. The staff saw the dog standing outside their door, so they checked on her and noticed the lifeless puppy. The pup was freezing cold, and the vet wasn’t even sure if it was still alive! The vet could not hear the puppy’s heartbeat with a stethoscope, so he checked it with a needle, which provided promising results! The
dog was alive but had a very slow heartbeat. The vet used a blow dryer to warm the puppy up, and before long, it was awake and moving again. All the while, the mother was at the puppy’s side with her head perched on the examination table.
So, how did the puppy’s mother know where to take her baby? This wasn’t her first encounter with this vet clinic; the same doctor was already treating the puppy’s littermate after good Samaritans brought her to the same clinic a few days earlier. Both puppies have been reunited with their mother and are all under the close eye of the clinic. Whether discussing humans or dogs, parents are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure their children survive and thrive. However, dogs might have to be more creative with their efforts.
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