Monday, November 9, 2009

Period 5 Blog 2.2 Sugar and Swine




Most of you seem to get that high glycemic, and processed carbohydrates are bad for you. In the short term they cause crazy energy fluctuations and long term a host of issues like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. This all happens because the body breaks down these foods so rapidly into blood sugar. What happens when you eat straight sugar? I'm talking about all that Halloween candy you are still working your way through?

Research has shown that rapid ingestion of sugar impairs the function of immunity related phagocytes(white-blood cells that fight germs and infection) for up to 5 hours after a sugar binge.

For this weeks blog, I want you to tell me what you can cut out of your diet this flu season to help keep your immune system running at it's best.

26 comments:

  1. definitely candy, other sweets (cookies, cake) and some fruits high in sugar
    -Ann

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  2. Chocolate, candycane, sugary cereals, sweet beverages, and just sweets in general.
    Sam Cheng

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  3. -David Chan
    I can stop eating candy

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  4. i can cut off all of the fried chicken and koolide im having. also the homade mac and chees. and backed potatos :)

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  5. cut out sweets like chocolate and candy.

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  6. Candy, Soda and Desserts

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  7. i can cut out all the sweets and cupcakes i have been eating since i have been eating lots of those.

    Sam Lansat

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  8. i will stop eating a lot of candy and instead of drinking gatorade i will drink more water

    Loryn Chen

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  9. Hiba Mohiuddin-
    we need to eat less sugary foods like candy and sweet drinks.

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  10. I would cut out the sweets for example icecream and candy.

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  11. For a healthy immune system, I can cut out foods with high sugar content, and when I do eat sugary foods I can make sure not to binge on them.

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  12. candy and soda would be definitly something good to take out of my diet.
    DAVID NEBB

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  13. Keyan Javadi-
    I could cut out eating sweets, junk food, and drinking lots of sodas. For example, candy, brownies, chips, and coke. Then start eating fruits as snacks and drinking fruit drinks instead like carrot juice.

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  14. foods high in sugar like candy and ice cream.

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  15. a little less sugar and candy and sweets...

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  16. Specifics, Hersheys, and baked Lays. Plus 5Hour Energy and Red Bull.

    -Kevin Lee
    [think im a bit late?]

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  17. Alex Kern -

    I could cut out all those 5 hour energy drinks and have apple juice or orange juice instead

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  18. I could cut out sweets such as soda and candy

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  19. Nancy Cheng
    you could cut off of the sugar and cany for about a month during that time you should eat veggitables, fruits, milk that should be low fat, and also having to exersice for about 30minutes to 1 hour a day or maybe more

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  20. I drink a lot of soda so cutting that out would be big, also giving away the remaining candy i have

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  21. Stefan Oganesoff

    Cutting off on sweets (cupcakes and cookies) and other candies

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  22. candy sweets like cookies and defenitely chocolate
    Anirudh Sridhar

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  23. Chocolate, candycane, sugary cereals, sweet beverages, and just Chocolates in general.
    -fabian

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  24. Cutting down on sweets.

    Andy Pham

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  25. Give all the candy away and DON'T GET ANY MORE. The you exersize like using weights, eating fruits and veggitables, drinking milk and water, running, swimming, walking etc.
    ~Nancy Cheng

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  26. I could cut out sweets such as soda and candy

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