Friday, November 30, 2012

Hign Fructose Corn Syrup vs.Gulping Water


Metabolic Danger of High-Fructose Corn Syrup












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Read This Excellent Comprehensive Overview From: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/dec2008_Metabolic-Dangers-of-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup_01.htm

Metabolic Danger of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

By Dana Flavin, MS, MD, PHD

Americans are being poisoned by a common additive present in a wide array of processed foods like soft drinks and salad dressings, commercially made cakes and cookies, and breakfast cereals and brand-name breads.
This commonplace additive silently increases our risk of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and atherosclerosis.
The name of this toxic additive is high-fructose corn syrup. It is so ubiquitous in processed foods and so over-consumed by the average American that many experts believe our nation faces the prospect of an epidemic of metabolic disease in the future, related in significant degree to excess consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.
The food industry has long known that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way.” And cane sugar had been America’s most delightful sweetener of choice, that is, until the 1970s, when the much less expensive corn-derived sweeteners like maltodextrin and high-fructose corn syrup were developed. While regular table sugar (sucrose) is 50% fructose and 50% glucose, high-fructose corn syrup can contain up to 80% fructose and 20% glucose, almost twice the fructose of common table sugar. Both table sugar and high-fructose sweetener contain four calories per gram, so calories alone are not the key problem with high-fructose corn syrup. Rather, metabolism of excess amounts of fructose is the major concern.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Corn Syrup Fructose vs. Water Hydration

 Fructose makes up more than half the total sugar content in many common beverages. Fructose levels are a concern to some researchers because fructose is metabolized solely by the liver while the other major simple sugar, glucose, can be used by all organs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your body needs hydration all year long and at all ages and at all activity levels. Thirst is a great indicator of needing more hydration. Choose to Gulpwater® vs. soda when you reach for someting to drink. Your whole body and especially your liver will thank you. Read a recent article to see how your liver is "perhaps" affected by fructose.

From Chicago Tribune http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-19/news/ct-met-fructose--20120919_1_fructose-table-sugar-simple-sugar

Some health experts sour on fructose

Different sugars may have different effects on the body; advocates seek labeling

September 19, 2012|By Monica Eng, Chicago Tribune reporter

Just as recent science has divided dietary fats into good, bad and really bad categories, some scientists now think different sugars also may deserve individual scrutiny.
Most experts agree that Americans eat too much sugar, period. But studies in recent years suggest that a simple sugar called fructose might contribute in unique ways to pre-diabetic conditions, obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Fructose, which makes up about half of table sugar and standard high-fructose corn syrup, is metabolized solely by the liver. The other major simple sugar, glucose, can be used by all organs. Researchers are finding that bombarding the liver with high levels of fructose can produce excess internal fat and elevate levels of uric acid, effects that can contribute to insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease. Some animal studies also link fructose to reduced sensitivity to leptin, a hormone that signals the body to stop eating.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Fructose Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease


illustration comparing normal liver and liver with fatty deposits 
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Here is more insight why gulping water is ALOT better for you than drinking soda made with sugar and fructose...

From:http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Heart_Letter/2011/September/abundance-of-fructose-not-good-for-the-liver-heart 

Another reason to avoid foods made with a lot of sugar.
The human body handles glucose and fructose — the most abundant sugars in our diet — in different ways. Virtually every cell in the body can break down glucose for energy. About the only ones that can handle fructose are liver cells. What the liver does with fructose, especially when there is too much in the diet, has potentially dangerous consequences for the liver, the arteries, and the heart.
Fructose, also called fruit sugar, was once a minor part of our diet. In the early 1900s, the average American took in about 15 grams of fructose a day (about half an ounce), most of it from eating fruits and vegetables. Today we average four or five times that amount, almost all of it from the refined sugars used to make breakfast cereals, pastries, sodas, fruit drinks, and other sweet foods and beverages.
Refined sugar, called sucrose, is half glucose and half fructose. High-fructose corn syrup is about 55% fructose and 45% glucose.

From fructose to fat

The entry of fructose into the liver kicks off a series of complex chemical transformations. (You can see a diagram of these at health.harvard.edu/172.) One remarkable change is that the liver uses fructose, a carbohydrate, to create fat. This process is called lipogenesis. Give the liver enough fructose, and tiny fat droplets begin to accumulate in liver cells (see figure). This buildup is called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, because it looks just like what happens in the livers of people who drink too much alcohol.
Virtually unknown before 1980, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease now affects up to 30% of adults in the United States and other developed countries, and between 70% and 90% of those who are obese or who have diabetes.
Early on, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is reversible. At some point, though, the liver can become inflamed. This can cause the low-grade damage known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (steato meaning fat and hepatitis meaning liver inflammation). If the inflammation becomes severe, it can lead to cirrhosis — an accumulation of scar tissue and the subsequent degeneration of liver function.

Beyond the liver

The breakdown of fructose in the liver does more than lead to the buildup of fat. It also:
  • elevates triglycerides
  • increases harmful LDL (so-called bad cholesterol)
  • promotes the buildup of fat around organs (visceral fat)
  • increases blood pressure
  • makes tissues insulin-resistant, a precursor to diabetes
  • increases the production of free radicals, energetic compounds that can damage DNA and cells.
None of these changes are good for the arteries and the heart.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Glucose vs.Fructose vs Sucrose













Whats the difference? They are all the same, right?  Wrong...read on

From The Web By P.J. Skerrett, Managing Editor, Harvard Health

Read the whole article from Harvard Health Publications - Harvard Medical School: http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-201104262425

Virtually every cell in the body can use glucose for energy. In contrast, only liver cells break down fructose. What happens to fructose inside liver cells is complicated. One of the end products is triglyceride, a form of fat. Uric acid and free radicals are also formed.

None of this is good. Triglycerides can build up in liver cells and damage liver function. Triglycerides released into the bloodstream can contribute to the growth of fat-filled plaque inside artery walls. Free radicals (also called reactive oxygen species) can damage cell structures, enzymes, and even genes. Uric acid can turn off production of nitric oxide, a substance that helps protect artery walls from damage. Another effect of high fructose intake is insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Fructose, Fatty Acids and NAFLD












Fructose is the sweetener in soda and we are consuming massive doses of it daily causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Choose to Gulpwater® every single day.

From:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/highfructose-corn-syrup-alters-human-metabolism.aspx

Fructose Fructose is a major contributor to:
  • Insulin resistance and obesity
  • Elevated blood pressure
  • Elevated triglycerides and elevated LDL
  • Depletion of vitamins and minerals
  • Cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis and even gout

A Calorie is Not a Calorie

Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium -- and in fact, every living thing on the Earth--uses glucose for energy.
If you received your fructose only from vegetables and fruits (where it originates) as most people did a century ago, you'd consume about 15 grams per day -- a far cry from the 73 grams per day the typical adolescent gets from sweetened drinks. In vegetables and fruits, it's mixed in with fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate any negative metabolic effects.
It isn't that fructose itself is bad -- it is the MASSIVE DOSES you're exposed to that make it dangerous. There are two reasons fructose is so damaging:
  1. Your body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose. The entire burden of metabolizing fructose falls on your liver.
  2. People are consuming fructose in enormous quantities, which has made the negative effects much more profound.
Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used in food and beverage manufacturing are made from corn, and the number one source of calories in America is soda, in the form of HFCS.
Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970s when they discovered that HFCS was not only far cheaper to make, it's about 20% sweeter than table sugar. HFCS is either 42% or 55% fructose, and sucrose is 50% fructose, so it's really a wash in terms of sweetness.
Still, this switch drastically altered the average American diet.
By USDA estimates, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars, and most of that is HFCS. The average Westerner consumes a staggering 142 pounds a year of sugar! And the very products most people rely on to lose weight -- the low-fat diet foods -- are often the ones highest in fructose. Making matters worse, all of the fiber has been removed from these processed foods, so there is essentially no nutritive value at all.

Fructose Metabolism Basics

Without getting into the very complex biochemistry of carbohydrate metabolism, it is important to understand some differences about how your body handles glucose versus fructose. I will be publishing a major article about this in the next couple of months, which will get much more into the details, but for our purpose here, I will just summarize the main points.
Dr. Robert Lustig[i] Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism. His work has highlighted some major differences in how different sugars are broken down and used:
  • After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.
  • Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is "burned up" immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.
  • The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
  • Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to activated glycerol (g-3-p), which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides. The more g-3-p you have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this.
  • When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!
  • The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.
  • Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain's communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.
If anyone tries to tell you "sugar is sugar," they are way behind the times. As you can see, there are major differences in how your body processes each one.The bottom line is: fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome -- not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result. And eating sugar may accelerate the aging process itself.


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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Dehydration Risk












It is a simple truth like "don't play in traffic" or "don't touch that it's hot"  If you don't consume enough water, you risk dehydration - you need to consume any type of clean water (bottled, tap, hot, warm, room temperature or cold) to be properly hydrated. 

Drinking alcohol or coffee or tea does not actually provide proper hydration due to the body's need to eliminate their toxins (caffeine, fructose, etc.).  The body needs actual water - without chemicals - to be fluid balanced. Gulpwater® to hydrate. Simple, Critical and Guaranteed.


From WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/dehydration-adults

Dehydration in Adults

Dehydration in Adults Overview

Dehydration is a condition that occurs when the loss of body fluids, mostly water, exceeds the amount that is taken in. With dehydration, more water is moving out of our cells and then out of our bodies than the amount of water we take in through drinking.
We lose water every day in the form of water vapor in the breath we exhale and as water in our sweat, urine, and stool. Along with the water, small amounts of salts are also lost.

When we lose too much water, our bodies may become out of balance or dehydrated. Severe dehydration can lead to death.

Causes of Dehydration in Adults

Many conditions may cause rapid and continued fluid losses and lead to dehydration:
  • Fever, heat exposure, and too much exercise
  • Vomiting, diarrhea, and increased urination due to infection
  • Diseases such as diabetes
  • The inability to seek appropriate water and food (as in the case of an infant or disabled person)
  • An impaired ability to drink (for instance someone in a coma or on a respirator or a sick infant who cannot suck on a bottle)
  • No access to safe drinking water
  • Significant injuries to skin, such as burns or mouth sores, or severe skin diseases or infections (water is lost through the damaged skin)

Symptoms of Dehydration in Adults

The signs and symptoms of dehydration range from minor to severe and include:
  • Increased thirst
  • Dry mouth and swollen tongue
  • Weakness
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations (feeling that the heart is jumping or pounding)
  • Confusion
  • Sluggishness fainting
  • Fainting
  • Inability to sweat
  • Decreased urine output
Urine color may indicate dehydration. If urine is concentrated and deeply yellow or amber, you may be dehydrated.

When to Seek Medical Care

Call your doctor if the dehydrated person experiences any of the following:
  • Increased or constant vomiting for more than a day
  • Fever over 101°F
  • Diarrhea for more than 2 days
  • Weight loss
  • Decreased urine production
  • Confusion
  • Weakness
Take the person to the hospital's emergency department if these situations occur:
  • Fever higher than 103°F
  • Confusion
  • Sluggishness (lethargy)
  • Headache
  • Seizures
  • Difficulty breathing
  • Chest or abdominal pains
  • Fainting
  • No urine in the last 12 hours
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Hydration By Using Your Brain











It is possible to use your brain to hydrate. Simply choose to Gulpwater® when you hydrate. Avoid or limit drinking sugar and especially avoid fructose (or high fructose). Easy, simple, critical and effective.

Clinical studies warn that fructose harms your liver where fructose is processed in your body (just like alcohol except without the "high") . See Google https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=fructose+dangers+heart+and+liver+disease&oq=fructose&gs_l=hp.1.1.35i39l2j0l2.0.0.1.32298.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.PWjfOpz-W9Y&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=dc0c6daa241c78ea&bpcl=38625945&biw=1269&bih=895

You have only one liver and only one brain. Use your own brain to protect your own liver. 

Fructose hides from the brain in the supermarket, convenience store and even in your own home refrigerator. It hides in a very secret place only able to be found by using your brain. The answer is to look on the back (or in small type on the front) of the food/soda label...

READ THE LABEL of the jelly and ketchup and soda and you choose to consume. Look for the word FRUCTOSE and then reward your brain for solving your search for fructose and have a glass of  water.


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Friday, November 16, 2012

Fructose Dangers - Heart and Liver Diseases















Consider drinking water vs. soda to avoid consuming frutose.  

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From http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fructosedangers.htm

What is fructose?

Fructose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar), which the body can use for energy. Because it does not cause blood sugar rise tremendously (has a low glycemic index), it was once thought that fructose was a good substitute for sucrose (table sugar). However, the American Diabetes Association and nutritional experts have changed their minds about this.

Is fructose bad for me?

A small amount of fructose, such as the amount found in most vegetables and fruits, is not a bad thing. In fact, there is evidence that a little bit may help your body process glucose properly. However, consuming too much fructose at once seems to overwhelm the body's capacity to process it. The diets of our ancestors contained only very small amounts of fructose. These days, estimates are that about 10% of the modern diet comes from fructose.

What happens if I consume too much fructose?

Most of the carbohydrates we eat are made up of chains of glucose. When glucose enters the bloodstream, the body releases insulin to help regulate it. Fructose, on the other hand, is processed in the liver. To greatly simplify the situation: When too much fructose enters the liver, the liver can't process it all fast enough for the body to use as sugar. Instead, it starts making fats from the fructose and sending them off into the bloodstream as triglycerides.

Why is this bad?

This is potentially bad for at least three reasons:
  • High blood triglycerides are a risk factor for heart disease.
  • Fructose ends up circumventing the normal appetite signaling system, so appetite-regulating hormones aren't triggered--and you're left feeling unsatisfied. This is probably at least part of the reason why excess fructose consumption is associated with weight gain.
  • There is growing evidence that excess fructose consumption may facilitate insulin resistance, and eventually type 2 diabetes. However, some of this effect may be from chemicals in soda which reacts with the high fructose corn syrup.

What are the major sources of fructose?

Fruits and vegetables have relatively small, "normal" amounts of fructose that most bodies can handle quite well. The problem comes with added sugars in the modern diet, the volume of which has grown rapidly in recent decades. The blame has often been pinned to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is made up of 55% fructose and 45% glucose. However, sucrose is half fructose and half glucose. So, HFCS actually doesn't have a whole lot more fructose than "regular" sugar, gram for gram. High fructose corn syrup has become incredibly inexpensive and abundant, partially due to corn subsidies in the United States. So, really, the problem is more that it has become so cheap that it has crept its way into a great number of the foods we eat every day.

Is corn syrup fructose different than fructose found in other foods?

No, all fructose works the same in the body, whether it comes from corn syrup, cane sugar, beet sugar, strawberries, onions, or tomatoes. Only the amounts are different. For example, a cup of chopped tomatoes has 2.5 grams of fructose, a can of regular (non-diet) soda supplies 23 grams, and a super-size soda has about 62 grams.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Fructose, Stroke, Memory Loss, Wrinkles and Impotence















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From http://www.theprovince.com/life/Hidden+sugar+shocker+added+fructose/7453507/story.html#axzz2CCXlpGtd
 

Downing 2 1/2 cans of fructose-drenched soda a day increases your risk of high-blood pressure by up to 77 per cent, a major cause of stroke, heart attack, memory loss, wrinkles and impotence. Plus, fructose paves the way for type 2 diabetes by overloading cells that are inhibiting blood sugar absorption.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Soda is Fructose not Hydration




 

 

 

 

 

 

Soda, Fructose and Fat

Frutose overview from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/highfructose-corn-syrup-alters-human-metabolism.aspx

Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly

By Dr. Mercola
A 2009 study from University of California, Davis takes its place in a growing lineup of scientific studies demonstrating that consuming high-fructose corn syrup is the fastest way to trash your health. It is now known without a doubt that sugar in your food, in all it's myriad of forms, is taking a devastating toll.
And fructose in any form -- including high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and crystalline fructose -- is the worst of the worst! Fructose, a cheap sweetener usually derived from corn, is used in thousands of food products and soft drinks. Excessive fructose consumption can cause metabolic damage and triggers the early stages of diabetes and heart disease, which is what the Davis study showed.
Dr. Richard Johnson also does a fabulous job of comprehensively reviewing this important topic in his new book The Fat Switch. In the study, over the course of 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a controlled diet including high levels of fructose produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease12. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems. Fructose is a major contributor to:
  • Insulin resistance and obesity
  • Elevated blood pressure
  • Elevated triglycerides and elevated LDL
  • Depletion of vitamins and minerals
  • Cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis and even gout

A Calorie is Not a Calorie

Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium -- and in fact, every living thing on the Earth--uses glucose for energy.
If you received your fructose only from vegetables and fruits (where it originates) as most people did a century ago, you'd consume about 15 grams per day -- a far cry from the 73 grams per day the typical adolescent gets from sweetened drinks. In vegetables and fruits, it's mixed in with fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate any negative metabolic effects.
It isn't that fructose itself is bad -- it is the MASSIVE DOSES you're exposed to that make it dangerous. There are two reasons fructose is so damaging:
  1. Your body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose. The entire burden of metabolizing fructose falls on your liver.
  2. People are consuming fructose in enormous quantities, which has made the negative effects much more profound.
Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used in food and beverage manufacturing are made from corn, and the number one source of calories in America is soda, in the form of HFCS.
Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970s when they discovered that HFCS was not only far cheaper to make, it's about 20% sweeter than table sugar. HFCS is either 42% or 55% fructose, and sucrose is 50% fructose, so it's really a wash in terms of sweetness.
Still, this switch drastically altered the average American diet.
By USDA estimates, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars, and most of that is HFCS. The average Westerner consumes a staggering 142 pounds a year of sugar! And the very products most people rely on to lose weight -- the low-fat diet foods -- are often the ones highest in fructose. Making matters worse, all of the fiber has been removed from these processed foods, so there is essentially no nutritive value at all.

Fructose Metabolism Basics

Without getting into the very complex biochemistry of carbohydrate metabolism, it is important to understand some differences about how your body handles glucose versus fructose. I will be publishing a major article about this in the next couple of months, which will get much more into the details, but for our purpose here, I will just summarize the main points.
Dr. Robert Lustig[i] Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism. His work has highlighted some major differences in how different sugars are broken down and used:
  • After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.
  • Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is "burned up" immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.
  • The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
  • Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to activated glycerol (g-3-p), which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides. The more g-3-p you have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this.
  • When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!
  • The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.
  • Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain's communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.
If anyone tries to tell you "sugar is sugar," they are way behind the times. As you can see, there are major differences in how your body processes each one.The bottom line is: fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome -- not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result. And eating sugar may accelerate the aging process itself.
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Hydration Blog


Sip, Drink, or Gulpwater® while you read an excellent recent Courier Journal blog on Hydration from Mike Jett, co-owner of Pure Fitness Training, is a certified strength and conditioning specialist with a master’s degree in exercise physiology. He’s also a University of Louisville faculty member in the Health and Sports Science Department.see: http://blogs.courier-journal.com/prime/author/mikejett/

"Water constitutes about 50-60% of your body weight, depending upon your amount of fat-free body mass (muscle contains a lot of water, fat mass does not). Two-thirds of our total body water (TBW) is housed inside of our cells (intracellular fluid), with the remaining third housed extracellularly (remember this point for next week’s newsletter). A drop in only about 9-12% of TBW can result in death, indicating the significance of this ‘nutrient’ and the importance of balancing water loss with water gain.

Water is gained first and foremost through drinking fluids (60%). Two other methods you might not think about are through eating (30%) and as a consequence of cellular metabolism (10%). These percentages vary; for instance, eating processed foods, which have very low to zero water content, will reduce the amount of water you gain from eating food. Another consideration to keep in mind is the type of fluid you are consuming: is it a liquid that encourages water-loss, namely caffeinated and alcoholic beverages? Unfortunately, many people couple the two situations listed above and as a result have a very low TBW content (and they wonder why they feel bad…, again, remember this for next week).

Water loss occurs via four methods: evaporation from the skin, evaporation from the respiratory tract (through breathing), excretion from the kidneys, and excretion from the large intestine. Environmental and nutritional conditions can affect the magnitude of each.

Loss of water via the evaporation of sweat is an important part of our thermoregulatory system, and would occur mainly in hot conditions. Because of this, most of us are conditioned to increase our fluid intake in the summer. But what about in the winter? Evaporation of water from the skin can also occur in the winter, and evaporation from the respiratory tract may increase in the winter; these would be due to the reliance on dry heat mechanisms in our homes/offices. You may notice your skin is drier in the winter- this is a sign that you are losing moisture through evaporation and should be a signal to increase your water intake.
Water loss from excretion is a natural physiological process, but would be affected by the mechanisms mentioned above regarding diuretics (things that promote water excretion) and dehydrated, processed foods."

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Friday, November 9, 2012

Hydration Education For Free












Hydration can be totally free. Gulpwater®

It is just a matter of choice each time you choose to Gulpwater® instead of sugar drinks.

It doesn't matter if you are small or an amazon, live in a city or in a tropical jungle, you still need proper hydration every single day. Why?

Because...

If you are diabetic, you need water to remove excess sugar in the bloodstream.

If you are overweight, you need to consume water to hydrate and avoid excess calories.

If you drink water (drink your body weight in ounces, daily) you will easily avoid dehydration.

If you Gulpwater® as you remember that sugar never did anything sweet for your teeth, you avoid dental diseases.

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Hydration Facts From Gulpwater®














Gulpwater® to hydrate all day, everyday. Avoid and limit sugar soda.

It's a fact, drinking water will help prevent diabetes, help prevent becoming overweight, lesson the possibility of dehydration and stop the most common cause of dental disease. Gulpwater®

Facts are clinically proven, guaranteed and repeatable. It is a fact that hydrating with water is the healthiest solution for kids, teens, adults and seniors


 

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Elect Daily To Gulpwater












The presidential election is finally over and now is the time to decide to focus daily on your own health results and elect to remain hydrated. It is easy to accomplish, doesn't require standing on lines and is simple to make the correct choice for today and the future. Choose to hydrate by drinking water. Avoid or limit your intake of sugar and you are guaranteed to lose weight, reduce the possibility of diabetes, dehydration and dental disease. All clinically proven. And often - absolutely free. Contribute to your own health today - Gulpwater®.


 

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Gulpwater® Election













Today is Election Day.
Every day you can elect to Drink or Gulpwater® instead of sugar drinks. 
Make the smart decision to do the simplest health action for yourself today and everyday...hydrate with water.
You will save calories and money each time you turn on the faucet.
Simple, yet critical life skill. Gulpwater®


 

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Gulpwater® Hydration










Hydration Education Foundation is organized as a 501(c) 3 nonprofit tax-exempt organization.As such we not permitted to become involved in politics Our trademark Gulpwater® is also not political in nature. It is a life skill. A health truth. Clinically proven. Guaranteed.

We do, however, want you to elect to be properly hydrated each day. 

Drink water, not sugar to become and remain hydrated. It is as easy as "voting" to choose to Gulpwater® before each meal, before you actually are thirsty, before you eat something or drink something else for a snack. Gulpwater®... Thanks.


 

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Gulpwater® Marathon



 

Acting Stupid has negative consequences.

New York City still had no power to a third of the city as of Friday - five days after the storm. The power has thankfully been just restored to some parts of midtown and lower Manhattan. But Staten Island and Queens are still serious disaster areas.  So are other East Coast States which had once in a lifetime storm damage.


What were they thinking to even consider having a marathon. Just Stupid Thinking...

The NYC Marathon was finally cancelled late yesterday....better late than never, but even better to be earlier than later. The "city" and the Road Runners Association had delayed the decision until 30,000 runners had already traveled to the city, displacing cold and hungry New Yorkers who has lost power and heat from the hotels. Generators lined the finish lines, sanitation workers and police who wanted to volunteer and help the disaster victims were assigned to work the marathon.

Hydration is a lifetime marathon. Gulpwater® is a daily smart thing to do - Drink water, not sugar.

Acting smart has positive consequences. 

Bring water to your storm affected neighbors or help us  www.gulpwater.org  
We teach smart hydration.




 

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Friday, November 2, 2012

Gulpwater® for Power.














New York City is still without electrical power below 39th street. Hundreds of thousands of folks in the city are without electricity and are still living in an emergency situation. The whole northeast has been affected by the storm. Neighbors are currently helping out in the city, in Westchester and along the Jersey Shore.

This disaster makes the basic daily need for water painfully obvious. Few people are bringing emergency soda or emergency chocolate milk to their disaster affected friends and neighbors. They bring water.

If you know that  - in an emergency  - that the right thing to do is to drink or Gulpwater® to hydrate...why not remember the same life truth when "normal" life, power and comfort is restored. 

Please help your/our neighbors by bringing them water. Thank you for your kindness.



 

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To visit  Gulpwater® online: www.hydrationeducation.org
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Gulpwater® Today














Yesterday was Halloween, everyone has probably consumed more candy and sugar than normal. Take one day off from consuming (drinking) sugar and Gulpwater® today. You will feel better and be doing a vital health action that will affect your entire body. It is clinically proven and guaranteed. Water is the basic building block of the earth. Plants, animals and humans of all ages are all positively affected when they consume water vs. sugar. It is absolutely guaranteed. Try to Gulpwater® today. And please help your friends and neighbors who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy by bringing them water. If you have no one to help, then consider helping us www.hydrationeducation.org/donate.html


 

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To visit 
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