Sugar = Sugar = Sugar

I’ve been meaning to do a post on sugar in all its glorious forms for a while now…but Whole 9 beat me to the punch…which means now I can cheat off of them. (Thank you procrastination) People are constantly trying to find a way to weasel some sweetness into their diet without calling it sugar.  Whole 9 made a pretty comprehensive list of all the ways that this is done, which I’ve copied and pasted to the bottom of my post... Read More

A spoonful of sugar

One of the 5:30am early birds, Jeff K, sent me a link to an article in the NYTimes entitled Is Sugar Toxic?.  The article is well-written and I’ll summarize it for you in a second, but first I want to mention a gem it contains in the form of a link to a lecture called Sugar: The Bitter Truth.  The lecture is one I had seen over a year ago which I posted a link to on this website and if you have 90 minutes, I cannot recommend enough. What... Read More

Sugar’s Evil Twin

Morgan demos wall-balls I’ve said before that sugar is sugar, and if your goal is weight loss you need to keep your consumption low.  This is a bit of an oversimplification of Carbs, and if your goal is elite performance you need to be thinking in types as well as amounts.  For example, if you are thinking of competing in an endurance event beyond an hour you need to be thinking of how to refuel your muscle glycogen quickly.  If you are thinking... Read More

Holidays Wreaking Havoc on Your Diet?

I know the feeling.  It’s not even Christmas Eve and I’ve already gone on a sugar bender that would make Hunter S. Thompson shudder in disgust.  There’s a bowl of chocolate just a little bigger than the size of my stomach (don’t ask how I know that) on my dining room table.  Every night I think I’ve emptied it for the last time and every morning I wake to find that someone’s filled the damn thing up again. ... Read More