For all you Paleo people out there… here is more proof that you’re on the right track. It may come as no surprise that there have been plenty of scientific findings in recent decades outlining how fat isn’t so bad for you after all. One of the main reasons behind America’s ballooning girth – surprise surprise – is carbohydrates. Bread and pasta, the very things that the government once advertised as the foundation of a healthy diet in the food pyramids, is actually the very thing that is destroying our health.

Check out this fascinating and informative infographic about how our bodies ingest food and why certain foods make us fat. The process may surprise you…

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5 x 3 Strict Press

3 x 5 Push Press

5 X 1 Round on 3 mins

20 Pull ups

3 Clean and Jerks @75-80% 1 RM

On Ramp Movement

Snatch

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AFAP – 7 Rds of

10 Burpees

15 Jump lunges

20 DUs

3 Min Rest

4 Rds 30 / 30 Situps

3 Rds 1 min / 30 Sec Planks

On Ramp Movement:

Power Clean

By Peter Attia on WarOnInsulin.com

Any discussion on the culpability of poor nutrition as the cause of our health woes begins with a discussion on sugar. One of the world’s experts on this topic is Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF.  Dr. Lustig has great experience treating children with obesity and is really on the front lines of what is becoming an epidemic of childhood obesity.  About two-and-a-half years ago, he gave a lecture on the perils of fructose (fruit sugar, which also makes up half of table sugar and high fructose corn syrup). It’s about 90 minutes in length, but the time goes by pretty quickly as Dr. Lustig is an engaging speaker. In addition, Gary Taubes wrote a great piece on sugar toxicity in the NY Times Magazine last year, which references the work of Dr. Lustig.  You can find it here.  Gary’s article on this topic was the fourth most read feature of 2011 on NYTimes.com (and the most read of all health-related topics).   Here’s the video of Dr. Lustig’s lecture:

I’ve highlighted the key points (with corresponding time in video), for those who may not want to watch the video in its entirety:

• 0:09:40 – Helpful summary showing the reduction in fat consumption in the U.S. from 1960 to 2000 (about 45% to 30%) and the concomitant rise in obesity (about 12% to 31%) [Which, of course, doesn't "prove" anything, it's just another correlation.]
• 0:23:00 – Change in fructose consumption over time: Prior to WWII (16-24 gm/day); 1977-78 USDA survey (37 gm/day); 1994 NHANES III (54.7 gm/day); Adolescents today (73 gm/day).
• 0:24:00– Perfect political storm of 3 events:
  • Nixon and USDA secretary (1973) – insistence to stabilize/reduce food prices.
  • Invention of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), which was half the price of cane sugar and enabled cheap substitution.
  • USDA, ADA, AHA, AMA – all call for reduction in fat intake.  Why? (For a quick primer on “cholesterol,” you may want to check my previous post on, What is cholesterol?)
    • Early 1970’s – LDL-C (The so-called “bad” cholesterol) is discovered (more specifically, a test to measure LDL-C is discovered)
    • Mid 1970’s – Observation that dietary fat is correlated with rising LDL-C (“A implies B”) in a subset of people.
    • Late 1970’s – Observation that elevated LDL-C is correlated with heart disease and cerebrovascular disease (“B implies C”) [Note: It's not actually clear this correlation has causation attached to it, in fact most evidence today would tell us that elevated LDL-C does not lead to heart disease and stroke.]
    • Early 1980’s – The following connection is (erroneously) made: A implies B, and B implies C, hence A implies C, so no-A means no-C.  [I guess it’s easy to see how an untrained person could make this mistake, but anyone who has taken even an intro course in logic knows that if A implies C, it isnot the case no-A implies no-C, it is only the case that no-C implies no-A. It’s hard to believe such poor logic was, and is, used to drive health policy. Last editorial point on this – any card-carrying lipidologist today will tell you that the so-called “bad” LDL-C is as relevant to your getting heart disease as your eye color.  Heart disease is caused by lipoprotein particles carrying oxysterols into your artery walls.  This is not measured or reasonably predicted by LDL-C.]
• 0:33:00 – Overview of Ancel Keys’ flawed “Seven countries study:” Showed the correlation of fat intake and coronary mortality, but failed to explain the cross correlation of sucrose with the fat (that is, sugar consumption rose too, but this was ignored in the analysis).
• 0:58:00 – Fructose metabolism overview (technical, but interesting – feel free to skip if you don’t like biochemistry): Fructose requires more ATP for the first step in its metabolism (fructose to fructose-1-P) than glucose.  This requires an AMP scavenger to recycle the ADP and AMP.  AMP goes to IMP, which goes to uric acid… READ MORE

10 Pistols

15 HR Pushups

20 Wall Balls

25 Pull ups

4 Rds

30 Secs Atomic Situps / 30 Sec off

On Ramp Movement

Power Clean

Deadlift – unbroken (progressing weight)

20 – 10 – 5

EMOM for 12 mins

Odd Mins 4 Power Snatches

Even Mins Row for max Calories

On Ramp Movement

Deadlift