I find that in coaching people in fitness they will do absolutely anything I write on the whiteboard. Sometimes they think it looks lame and end up puking or cursing the day they were born because what looked so simple turned out to be a miserable punishment for some unknown sin in their past. Or something like that.

Diet?

Not so much.

The previous post was about sugar, fructose specifically. The first thing I tell people is to eat protein at every meal. I don’t mean now and then. I mean AT EVERY FLIPPING MEAL! It’s not really that hard in my mind but it causes a real struggle for people. If you can’t eat a little protein (eggs or meat… heck, have some milk) then ditching the high fructose corn syrup is not really going to happen.

I work with some skinny people who won’t give up the sugar. It’s hard to convince them that sugar is slowly killing them because they look good. They don’t carry any [obvious] body fat and they get attention from the opposite sex. The problem is getting today’s culture to look down the road and past the current sugar high to the fatty liver, type two diabetes, hypertension, lipid dysfunction, excess fat and eventually cardiovascular disease. Maybe it’s that I’m staring down the barrel of 40 years old but this stuff is real and I have seen the carnage. In fact, I fully expect to see some people I know and love to drop dead in the next decade. It is a horrible thought to me, but experience tells me it’s true. The following decade will be even worse that.

If you can watch the lecture on fructose and continue to follow the same old dietary habits you in all likelihood just don’t get it yet. I’ll keep working on you.

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