Ulterior Health

We humans are attracted to pleasure and tend to avoid pain. We also have a need for immediacy. We want instant gratification.

Your instant gratifying pleasure seeking sweet tooth may be causing you more pain than you could imagine.

Check out this study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and Cancer Risk. In non geek terms, it basically means cancer loves sugar.

More importantly, the results from foods that boost our sugar puts us at higher risk of cancer.

The solution, keep the sweets to a minimum.

Eat them with a balanced diet to off set the effect.

Always eat a balanced meal.

Get exercise (even if it is just parking in the farthest spot in the lot)

And most of all, skip the bagel and cream cheese at the morning meeting.

How

Like immediacy, we can tend to quality quantify things. What would it take to make a bagel a 10 on the food scale.

I am talking having a bagel worth dyeing for. A perfect bagel with cream cheese. Perhaps fresh strawberry preserves. And the bagel is just perfect, the New York City kind.

Lets take that bagel and make it a 2 on the 10 scale. Suppose the bagel was not fresh out of the oven. Tastes great but not perfect.

What would it take to make it a 0. You could eat it or leave it? Maybe if it had been setting out for a while before you ate it. Not sure how long but long enough.

What would it take to make it a (and for the sake of time lets jump to) negative 10?

Suppose the person preparing had mistakenly went into the restroom with the tray of bagels. Then he dropped the try on the floor. An exceptionally dirty floor.

No problem he thinks. Since these were flown in from New York City, we cannot waste them. So he gets a clean towel and proceeds to clean them off. Actually he dusts them off to be precise.

Besides, nobody will notice once the cream cheese is spread.

How would you feel about even touching one?

Now….consider the study above. You know your not going to be able to do any exercise all day. You will just be sitting, enjoying the thoughts of having eaten your bagel.

Your bagel has not been dropped on the floor. Rather it is your personal future diagnosis of cancer.

There is a saying about the Devil. His offerings have one thing in common. They are all free. They may cost your life, but they are free.

In this case the future cancer you could get is free. Matter of fact, it is even pleasurable.

The question you need to ask…

Is this pleasure going to be worth the future cancer I may get?

bona-petite.