1.  Dried Fruit - The unhealthy part about fruit? The sugar. Dried mangoes have as much as 34g of sugar per serving - this is more than Peanut M&M's. 

2.  Whole Wheat Bread - The normal carb count is for a serving of one slice ... since a sandwich usually has 2 slices, it's time to double that! Consider it around 40g or about 4 (non-light) beers.

3.  Smoothies - Did you know that Naked's Protein Zone juice smoothies have about 58g of sugar?  That's as much as a Mud Fudge Blizzard from Dairy Queen.

4.  Yogurt - Great for protein and fat but bad for sugar.  They can have as much as 20g of sugar!  Another great reason to READ the ingredient labels before you assume something is healthy!

5.  Cereal - Cereals like Grape Nuts are branded as healthy and good for you but many have nearly 50g of carbs PER SERVING.

6.  Brown Rice - Awesome carbohydrate and excellent source of slow digesting energy .... if used correctly!  Remember don't just eat rice to eat rice, one serving has about 35g of carbs!

7.  Fat - Free Salad Dressing - In most cases the manufacturer makes up for the lack of fat by adding sugar for more taste.

8.  Pomegranate Juice - for all of you POM fans out there ... Drink a 16oz container of POM Wonderful and you just poured 62g of sugar down your throat.

 9.  Agave Nectar - Agave syrups are often 100% fructose and cannot be dealt with by the liver and is turned into fat.  Yea, that one is great for your physique.

10.  Vegetable Chips - They carry the same carb count as chips made from potatoes: about 16g per ounce.

 Having said all this remember, carbohydrates are not your enemy when used CORRECTLY.  Use slow digesting carbs for energy and don't overdo them! They will turn into fat faster than you realize and all your hard work just went right in the trash.

 

Ref. Tyler Graham - Details

L-Carnitine has been used to help burn body fat for decades but no supplement company uses actual effective dosages to fully utilize this incredible substance.  MooreMuscle's MooreSkinny Fat Burner uses a full, effective dosage along with other even more powerful ingredients to create simply the greatest fat burner of all time.  Here is your education on L-Carnitine ...  

L-carnitine, also referred to as simply carnitine, is a nutrient that your body makes naturally from substances called amino acids. It also comes from a range of food sources and is available in a variety of supplemental forms. L-carnitine helps your body produce energy by burning fat.

Basics

Amino acids are the building blocks that your body uses to make its proteins. Through a natural internal process, your body also uses the amino acids lysine and methionine to make an internal supply of L-carnitine in your liver and kidneys. After it is formed, this nutrient accumulates in your skeletal muscles, brain and heart, as well as in male sperm. You also get dietary L-carnitine from foods such as beef, fish, poultry, pork, avocados, asparagus and milk and other dairy products. Supplemental L-carnitine is available in oral and intravenous forms, as well as in closely related forms called acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine.

Fat Burning

To get energy from the fats in your diet, your body must turn them into substances called fatty acids. Your heart and skeletal muscles, in particular, rely on fatty acid burning for the fuel that keeps them going. L-carnitine plays an essential role in this process by transporting fatty acids to structures in your cells called mitochondria, which perform the actual burning and produce energy. L-carnitine also removes potentially harmful waste products from the burning of fatty acid so they don't accumulate and cause cellular damage.

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Ref. livestrong.com

Sleep Is a Basic Human Need

Sleep is a natural part of everybody's life, but many people know very little about how important it is, and some even try to get by with little sleep. Sleep is something our bodies need to do; it is not an option. Even though the exact reasons for sleep remain a mystery, we do know that during sleep many of the body's major organ and regulatory systems continue to work actively. Some parts of the brain actually increase their activity dramatically, and the body produces more of certain hormones.

Sleep, like diet and exercise, is important for our minds and bodies to function normally. In fact, sleep appears to be required for survival. Rats deprived of sleep die within two to three weeks, a time frame similar to death due to starvation.

An internal biological clock regulates the timing for sleep. It programs each person to feel sleepy during the nighttime hours and to be active during the daylight hours. Light is the cue that synchronizes the biological clock to the 24-hour cycle of day and night.

 

Problem Sleepiness Has Serious Consequences

Sleepiness due to chronic lack of adequate sleep is a big problem in the United States and affects many children as well as adults. Children and even adolescents need at least 9 hours of sleep each night to do their best. Most adults need approximately 8 hours of sleep each night.

When we get less sleep (even one hour less) than we need each night, we develop a "sleep debt." If the sleep debt becomes too great, it can lead to problem sleepiness – sleepiness that occurs when you should be awake and alert, that interferes with daily routine and activities, and reduces your ability to function. Even if you do not feel sleepy, the sleep debt can have a powerful negative effect on your daytime performance, thinking, and mood, and cause you to fall asleep at inappropriate and even dangerous times.

Problem sleepiness has serious consequences – it puts adolescents and adults at risk for drowsy driving or workplace accidents. In children, it increases the risk of accidents and injuries. In addition, lack of sleep can have a negative effect on children's performance in school, on the playground, in extracurricular activities, and in social relationships.

Inadequate sleep can cause decreases in:

    Performance
    Concentration
    Reaction Times
    Consolidation of Information Learning

Inadequate sleep can cause increases in:

    Memory Lapses
    Accidents and Injuries
    Behavior Problems
    Mood Problems

Signs of Sleep Disorders

A child who has not obtained adequate nighttime sleep is at high risk for symptoms of physical and/or mental impairment. The child may fall asleep in school, have difficulty concentrating in school and other activities, and/or exhibit behavioral problems. Some children who are sleepy become agitated rather than lethargic and may be misdiagnosed as hyperactive. Not getting enough sleep is one cause of problem sleepiness. Undiagnosed/untreated sleep disorders can also cause problem sleepiness. Children as well as adults can suffer from sleep disorders. Parents should talk to their pediatrician about a possible sleep disorder if their child has any of the following:

    Snoring
    Breathing Pauses During Sleep
    Problems with Sleeping at Night
    Difficulty Staying Awake During the Day

    Unexplained Decrease in Daytime Performance

 

In closing, strive for a scheduled sleep each night. Just like an infant, set a scheduled bedtime each day and do your best to stick to it. The more you can do this the more you will see improvements in your mind, body and everyday life. 

 

Ref. The National Institute of Mental Health

In the great words of Stephen King, "The world has moved on ..." 

This is more true today than it has ever been.  The world has always evolved at a rapid rate but in the last 50 years the world has changed more than it has in the last 500 and by the time this blog post is finished it will have changed again.  In a world that we constantly struggle to keep up in it is easy to get lost in the unimportant and the tomorrow.  "The unimportant" is obviously completely individualized but then again, the individual concept of the unimportant is what this post is all about.

Each person has their own idea of priorities in their lives but sometimes we get so wrapped up in them and what we are planning for later or tomorrow, it takes an outside source to snap you back into reality and shed light on what we should actually hold as important.  We see it everyday - while we are at the grocery store, while we sit in traffic, while we wait in line at a coffee shop.  Each day in our routine tasks of "getting things done" we become so focused on the task at hand that we as a people or maybe as a society lose sight of enjoying the present.

... Enjoying the present instead of always focusing on tomorrow, what a thought!  We get so immersed in our list of "to do's" that the present is simply forgotten.  I challenge you to do something; next time you are riding in an elevator, instead of staring at the digital readout of the floor you are passing, turn around and look at the people behind you (who are undoubtably staring at those same mind numbing digits) and say "hello".  Ask how their day is going, compliment them on their hair, shake their hand and introduce yourself ... any of it, just try. I promise you that you will experience something brand new at that instant and once you get over the awkward nervousness of what you just did you will walk away from the situation with air under your feet and a smile on your face.  I don't really know the reason for this (I'm sure some psychiatrist reading this will be able to answer that) but for whatever reason it is, it's a great feeling.

Maybe if we could all spend just a minute in our day enjoying RIGHT NOW, then we wouldn't miss so much of this high speed world we live in.