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<p>[We’re</a> not worthy!](<a href=“mdjunction.com”>mdjunction.com)</p>
<p>I worked up the nerve to climb on the Airdyne Torture Machine. I’ve had a enough of the 90% heart rate intervals for a little while, so I did 1/4 mile intervals. I had the Garmin programmed to do eight, but I did them really hard (averaged 78.6 rpm up from 74.6 the last time I did quarter miles - a huge increase on the Airdyne). I was completely toast after six and threw in the towel. This thing is just brutal when you really try to go all out.</p>
<p>30 minutes start to finish and now I just hope I can stand up long enough to make a blue cheese salad to go with my out-of-this-world chili, while watching Dr. Lustig rant about sugar on 60 Minutes… :)</p>
<p>Kitty!!!</p>
<p>I think your Airdyne workouts are like running an all out 5K! Good job.</p>
<p>It’s not that bad! The Airdyne does have a unique ability to suck every last bit of air out of your lungs. I’m not sure why. It’s the only thing I do where I finish an interval and I really feel like I’m not going to be able to get a breath. </p>
<p>I think it’s because the nature of the thing forces you into completely anaerobic territory right off the bat – where the muscles have no prayer of getting enough oxygen to sustain the effort. My legs were burning 20 seconds into a 35 second interval. There’s something about continuing past that point that kills the ability to breathe. I guess it’s probably similar to doing “wind sprints”.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the CBS video of the 60 Minutes segment on sugar tonight:</p>
<p>[Is</a> sugar toxic? - 60 Minutes - CBS News](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=pop;videos]Is”>http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=pop;videos)</p>
<p>And, to the online bonus interview with Sanjay Gupta (sponsored by Pfizer!):</p>
<p>[Sugar</a> and kids: The toxic truth - 60 Minutes Overtime - CBS News](<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57407203-10391709/sugar-and-kids-the-toxic-truth/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.1]Sugar”>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57407203-10391709/sugar-and-kids-the-toxic-truth/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.1)</p>
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<p>With the reach of network TV, this is a huge story. Maybe even shocking. They interview a researcher who has shown that feeding subjects sweetened juices for just two week raises their triglycerides and small particle LDL, risk factors for heart disease. And the Harvard researcher who has shown that many cancer tumors have insulin receptors and respond to sugar. They even suggest that the low fat advice for decades may have been attacking the wrong thing. </p>
<p>This stuff is old new to anyone familiar with Lustig’s work. But, on a mainstream network TV show? Big impact on nutrition policy…</p>
<p>Idad, the cat looks just like my old Ms Kitty!</p>
<p>I did not plan on running today, but ended up doing about 3.6 miles. Not a bad day after all.</p>
<p>MOfWC, congrats on doing 13!</p>
<p>I pulled or strained something assembling and moving furniture yesterday and that was enough of a workout. I was thinking of running afterwards but decided not to. I will try running today to see how it feels. I suspect that it’s just a one or two day thing.</p>
<p>I hope so, BC.</p>
<p>I’ve been up and down stairs about 20 times already today, a few times with very heavy boxes in my arms. The realtor is coming later today to tell us what else we need to do before putting the house on the market. I suspect I’ll be making another 20 trips up and down before she gets here.</p>
<p>No gym for me today!</p>
<p>I hope to loose my 8 lbs from 2-weeks all inclusive (Mexico) in next month just being on my regular “chocolate-fruit and a bit of other food” diet. I think that 1 lb was gone in first day. Boy, I miss all good food though! I do not count exercise at all as I was doing my regular 2 hrs on vacation, although they were much more pleasant than home gym. Good luck to me!</p>
<p>4 miles, 8:37 pace, Smith Machine, Free Weights. Overall felt good - injury seems gone - actually it feels better after running than before. Maybe moving around and warming it up made it better.</p>
<p>5 mile nordic walking</p>
Did something different today–there’s a small parcours trail near the Y in our community…hilly trail, trees…it’s pretty nice. So I ran/walked around it once, with the idea of getting a baseline on the time (just for the trail, not the stops.) I didn’t have time to do it twice, though I felt like I could have. Maybe I’ll stop there regularly. 
<p>interesteddad–you can google Is Sugar Toxic? to find the NYTimes article. Sobering.</p>
<p>Sounds like everybody is kickin’ it today. Me? Back to the basement for my usual workout. Few more weeks before [New</a> Rules of Lifting for Busted Up Ol’ Geezers](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/The-Rules-Lifting-Life-Muscle-Building/dp/1583334610/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333412562&sr=1-1]New”>http://www.amazon.com/The-Rules-Lifting-Life-Muscle-Building/dp/1583334610/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333412562&sr=1-1) comes out and I can to play around with new flavors of Alwyn Cosgrove torture! I can’t wait. Sounds like each workout will have a menu of choices in each exercise slot for people to choose according to their capablities and aches/pains.</p>
<p>Anyway, good solid workout today. I tried to push through with a little quicker pace, less rest between exercises. For example doing exercise A and exercise B in a superset without any rest between them.</p>
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<p>Definitely. Here’s the NYTimes link:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print</a></p>
<p>And here’s Dr. Lustig’s infamous YouTube lecture (2.2 million views):</p>
<p>[Sugar:</a> The Bitter Truth - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM]Sugar:”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM)</p>
<p>In a nutshell, the fructose in table sugar is metabolized uniquely in the body and almost exclusively by the liver. As Lustig explains, fructose metabolism in the liver is virtually identical to the metabolism of alcohol, which is why he says that it’s “toxic”. Chronic overconsumption of fructose leads to fatty liver disease. It results in “bad cholesterol” being increased. And it produces “triglycerides” (fat molecules). More important, Lustig believes that fructose metabolism, over the long term, results in insulin resistance, which is the common bond for obesity, type 2 diabetes, etc. All of this is why I believe that Lustig’s first rule of fat loss is correct: stop drinking sugar. I believe that is the first step for virtually every person who has fat to lose. No soda. No sweet tea. No fruit juice. No sports drinks. </p>
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<p>I was correct that this story is getting a lot of attention. I had Fox News on while I was making my healthy blue cheese salad for lunch. They had a long segment on the 60 Minutes story, complete with two doctors who agreed that the focus on low-fat for decades resulted in am increase in sugar consumption. It blows my mind to hear this stuff being talked about. I can’t wait for the people who have been preaching this stuff (Taubes, Eades, Vernon, Phinney, Volek, etc.) to weigh in.</p>
<p>CBS had a complete idiot registered dietician on their morning show to discuss the story. Her explanation? Sugar is bad because when you dissolve sugar in the blood, it thickens the blood like syrup. That’s not even remotely what Lustig is talking about. It’s as silly as the notion that eating fat clogs your arteries because pouring grease down the sink clogs the drain!</p>
<p>^^^Great analogy, idad.</p>
Wow. That is pretty moronic by any standard, but for a registered dietician? Unconscionable!
I have thought for years that surely eating pure sugar can’t be good for the body and is probably contributory to diabetes, but I kept reading assurances from doctors, nurses, and everybody else in the medical field that “Duh, no, sugar doesn’t cause diabetes!” I wonder how long it will take the so-called experts to change their tune.
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<p>I don’t think registered dieticians are held in high regard when it comes to accurate information about diet! :)</p>
<p>It may be that very high blood glucose levels make the blood thicker, I don’t know. But, fructose doesn’t even raise blood sugar. It is almost entirely metabolized in the liver. The main thing that goes into the blood when you eat a bunch of fructose are triglyceride fat molecules.</p>
<p>Afternoon workout consisted of some kettlebell swings and some lunge matrices. </p>
<p>Night workout consisted of a nice 2 mile run/walk. 21:15 tonight which is a nice improvement over a couple weeks ago when I did the same distance in 24:36. I also felt like I was able to run more tonight than I did last time. My second to last running piece I struggled to finish and then I walked about .20 of a mile before I ran the rest of the way home… </p>
<p>Little bit of a breeze at around 75 degrees outside… felt good!</p>
<p>^Great job, I cannot move on dry land when it is above 70F. Happy to be able to use pool. But when outside temp. is around 90F even water is way too warm to swim. Then the only option is gym, kind of not very good option for summer. We are planning to play ping pong in a basement also. It is Not very intense, but it is such a fun and much better than doing nothing. We had awesome time palying it on vacation on a beach.</p>
