As a society we have a problem in that we are overfed and undernourished. What does this mean? We are eating too many empty calories that do not provide us with the nutrition that our bodies need. The other day Tricia was watching one of those mystery diagnosis medical shows and a young boy was on the show who was diagnosed with scurvy. Scurvy is a disease that presents itself when there is a deficiency in vitamin C and many people thought that scurvy was a thing of the past with all of the access that we have to food these days. The problem is that when we eat junk food we do not give our bodies the nutrition that it needs. So how did this child develop scurvy. His parents said that he wouldn't eat vegetables or fruit so they just let him eat whatever he wanted. Unfortunately, we are seeing several cases of scurvy pop up these days because of our society's poor nutrition habits. I feel that obesity is also a case of being overfed and undernourished. When the body does not have the building blocks that it needs then the body sends out hunger signals, but if more empty calories are eaten then a viscious cycle begins to set in.
Workout of the Day
10 mountain climbers + 20 sumo squats
20 mountain climbers + 20 pushups
30 mountain climbers + 30 step walking lunge
40 mountain climbers + 20 reps bent over db row
2 rounds for time
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