Whats Making Us Fatter,

A simple tomato sandwich has around 240 calories. A teaspoon of table sugar has only 15 calories. A simple tomato sandwich has around 240 calories. A teaspoon of table sugar has only 15 calories. To use up this small amount of energy, all you need do is sleep for 20 minutes or take 10 minutes styling your hair.

Or just reading this article should burn up a spoonful. Add playing the piano for 10 minutes and taking a quick shower and you will have used up most of the calories from the table sugar the average person consumes in a day. Why then is obesity on the increase and reaching epidemic proportions,

The main cause of weight gain is a lack of perspective. Weight gain is a result of eating more food than we can use up living, laughing, loving and working. Put quite simply, no particular food can be singled out as the culprit, although it probably helps to point out that a gram of fat has twice the calories of a gram of table sugar.

But it gets more interesting. An ever increasing body of scientific research on table sugar shows that some of it in the diet actually helps to curb cravings, helps prevent bingeing sessions and aids adherence to healthier, low fat diets. Table sugar is just a natural carbohydrate, nothing more, nothing less.

It is natures own sweetener, made up equally of fructose, and glucose. It has been used to make good food more palatable and fun for hundreds of years in exactly the same form as today. Before your next ‘well balanced breakfast of oats and fresh fruit, ask yourself this, ‘wheres the protein and fat, After all, with the exception of eggs and sausage, typical breakfast foods – cereal, fruit, toast, pastries and juice – provide you with almost nothing but carbohydrates, often in the form of sugar.

That means more morning meals are highly unbalanced. Most bodybuilders already know they need high quality protein – the kind found in meat, eggs and dairy – to nourish and build muscle. But fat is important at your morning meal too. Thats because, along with the protein, it slows the absorption of carbohydrates into your bloodstream, providing you with a steady supply of energy – instead of a quick sugar rush (often followed by a sugar crash).

And by keeping you full longer, this protein/fat combo can also help shrink your midsection. In a recent study, researches found that when people had eggs for breakfast, they ate 1050 fewer kilojoules during the rest of the day than when they had a bagel instead. Of course, you dont need a written article to tell you how to make scrambled eggs.

So here are some new ways to fill your belly, feed your muscles and energize your body first thing in the morning. Think of it this way. Youre simply trading high sugar jam for high protein tuna salad. Its easy to make ahead of time, and by tweaking the conventional recipe to include cranberries, you get a hint of jam sweetness. Mix all the ingredients together.

Serve a scoop on a piece of toasted wholegrain bread. With this recipe, you control the ingredients, the manufacturer doesnt. And that means you can ensure its free of hard to avoid added sugar, while nearly having triple the protein of most ready to eat yoghurts. Line a two cup mesh strainer with a paper coffee filter and place it over a mixing bowl.



Fill the filter with the yoghurt, cover with a clean cloth or waxed paper, and set the bowl (with strainer inside) in the fridge for several hours. Much of the liquid from the yoghurt will drain into the bowl, resulting in thicker yoghurt. In a blender, puree the berries along with the whey-protein powder and sweetener. Once the yoghurt has drained, place it in a large bowl and stir in the berry puree. Serve in one cup portions and store for up to three days.

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