Is The Sugar In Fruit Bad For You?

There’s a lot of informative stuff on social media.

Like, where else are you going to learn that you never have to pay federal income tax as long as you tell your employer that you request zero-dollar tax withholding and also choose “exempt” on IRS Form W-4?¹Now, before you do that, you should know that “exempt” doesn’t make you exempt from paying taxes. Even more, you’ll be subject to paying your entire tax bill in April if you don’t have your taxes withheld during the year. Making matters possibly worse, the IRS can charge penalties and interest if you’re unable to pay the entire amount at that time.

The most recent bit of wisdom that’s been making the rounds is that fruit is bad for you because fruit contains sugar and as we all know by now, sugar is the cause of all that’s wrong in the world.²Eating too much sugar is associated with several diseases and conditions, such as weight gain and obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and mood disorders like anxiety and depression, among several other issues. That’s well-documented about sugar, so what was said about sugar being the cause of all that’s wrong in the world was said in jest not in dispute of sugar’s effect on the body but in regard to the overexaggeration of it to the point that sugar’s made out to be something to be avoided at all cost. That said, it’s not exactly hyperbole that sugar has to do with why the world is as fucked up as it is. For instance, the demand for sugar drove colonialism and slavery and brought about the loss of countless lives. The socioeconomic effects of those practices reverberate today.

That’s a world history lesson, motherfucker!

So is fruit bad for you, especially if you eat too much of it? Continue reading Is The Sugar In Fruit Bad For You?

How To Improve Lagging Muscles

A lagging muscle is a muscle that stops growing or getting stronger.

When faced with the situation of a muscle not being as developed as others, people intuitively think that more is better. As such, they’ll often work on a lagging muscle with great regularity. For example, they’ll do curls EVERY DAY in order to bring their arms up. Curling EVERY DAY seems to make sense to get stronger and build bigger biceps, no? But that approach is wrong.

Why?

Because muscles grow outside of the gym, not inside it, by the body repairing the damaged muscle tissue to make it bigger and stronger to better withstand stress the next time you expose it to stressful stimuli, such as weights. That being so, when do you allow for the muscle to recover if you’re beating it into the ground on a daily basis?⁣
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Rather than the all-out approach, do this instead…⁣ Continue reading How To Improve Lagging Muscles

Exercise Mat

To stretch or do an exercise on the ground, you can lie down on the heavily trafficked floor that’s teeming with the germs and particles from the bathroom and elsewhere that people track on their shoes.

Or you can lie down on an exercise mat that everyone uses, if you can even find one.

Or you can bring your own. Continue reading Exercise Mat

Bananas have several benefits that might make you want to put them in your mouth more often.

Yes, bananas offer benefits besides being used to practice your deep-throating skills on!¹Go to a social media site, like Twitter or Instagram, and check out #bananachallenge for…ummmmmm…research purposes.

Yeah, research! Continue reading Banana Nutrition Facts

The Benefits Of Water During Exercise

Do you practice good hydration?

Like, do you drink water before and during every workout?

Oh, you don’t?!?!⁣
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Ha, no wonder your performance level is as bad as it is! Continue reading The Benefits Of Water During Exercise