It matters what we feed students. Protein and healthy snacks (not sugar)

I invite readers to visit www.PostersAndProcedures.blogspot.com and make comments. TO TEACHERS: Can your students look at the posters and make comments? Maybe they want to make posters with www.BingBanners.com and send me the JPEGs that they produce. What quotes inspire your students? Perhaps my students will be inspired by your students. If your students want to email me or call me, Skype SteveEnglishTeacher SteveEnglishTeacher@gmail.com -- show us your work.....



This slogan applies to 


STUDENTS, too.

George, one of my students at WHPS, told me that he wants an energy bar. This was a kid who demanded greeasy cheesey sandwiches and soda and candy bars and now he focuses on protein. Bravo, George. You gave up eating for the pleasure of your TONGUE and now you eat for your body and your brain. Soon, you might try some sardines.


See the breakthrough study: TEN DAYS TO WITHDRAW FROM SUGAR

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FROM CNN... 

By cutting back sugar for your kids, you can see dramatic improvements in just 10 days. That is pretty remarkable, if you think about it.

We typically think diets take months, or even longer, to make a positive dent. For 43 children, however, Dr. Robert Lustig and his team at University of California, San Francisco, decreased triglyceride levels by 33 points on average. The LDL -- bad -- cholesterol dropped 5 points, as did diastolic blood pressure, the lower number.

All of the children dramatically reduced their risk of diabetes, as their blood sugar and insulin levels normalized. Again, just 10 days. And while the study was done in children, there's no reason to believe the benefits wouldn't extend to adults, as well.

....there are some calories that are simply worse than others, and for most people, sugar is at the top of the list. The table sugar most people know is sucrose, made up of equal parts glucose and fructose. But it is the fructose that is such a bad actor, Lustig told me. The reason why is really fascinating.

Because our bodies use glucose as the preferred energy source, it is easily metabolized and used just about everywhere and the extra is stored in our muscles or liver as glycogen.

Unfortunately, this is not the case with fructose, which is metabolized in only one place -- the liver. And, because the liver can only handle so much fructose at a time, the extra gets converted into fat. Your liver starts to accumulate fat, which is wildly unhealthy. Even worse, the excess fat spills out into your blood stream, increasing your risk of heart disease and strokes.

There is something peculiar about fructose: Unlike other sources of calories, it doesn't suppress the hunger hormone, known as ghrelin. So, despite eating lots of it, you don't really feel full.

The result: you keep eating. In addition, fructose targets my favorite area of the brain, the nucleus accumbens, also known as the reward center. Turns out fructose gives the nucleus accumbens a little nudge, resulting in someone feeling rewarded, good, even euphoric, and -- you guessed it -- wanting to eat even more...

While many diet studies derive most of their benefit from people simply eating less, it wasn't the case here. While study participants reduced their dietary sugar from 28% to 10%, it was replaced with other complex carbohydrates. Think bagels instead of pastries. The goal was not to lose weight but to isolate the impact of sugar on the body.

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If the product is advertised,


then you shouldn't eat it.


Beating the odds against sugar...