Do you ever ask, what can I eat that is healthy and light? Is the most common answer, "a salad"? Well this article is about to turn that preconception on its head. Especially the 1220 calorie salad! 😳 Yikes!! I also like the activity and time needed to burn off the calories from one of these "light" meals.

*If you come to a Thursday 6:30 pm (great way to start the weekend) or a Monday morning 6:30 am class (smart way to start the week), you can burn off a Sweetgreen Omega salad in a FitCampNYC hour class!

https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2016/07/25/salad-makes-you-fat-and-broke/amp/?client=safari#

What happens when you remove sugar from your diet?

Here is an example of the positive results that manifested after just 9 days!

After nine days, the researchers found a 33 percent drop in triglycerides, a type of fat tied to heart disease; a 49 percent reduction in a protein called apoC-III that is tied to high triglyceride levels; and dramatic reductions in small, dense LDL cholesterol, a risk factor for heart disease.

Impressive. Why?

Sugar calories are not like other carbohydrate calories,” said Dr. Robert Lustig, a co-author of the study and professor of pediatrics at Benioff Children’s Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco. “Without changing total carbohydrate, or fat, or protein, we were able to accomplish this enormous improvement in their cardiovascular risk factors,” unrelated to weight loss, he said.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/cutting-sugar-from-diet-rapidly-improves-heart-health-markers/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share