Last week’s interview with Nancy Appleton on “Suicide By Sugar” got a lot of people talking. One listener wrote in and asked me about chai tea.
Listener Theresa asks: “Is chai tea OK for me or my kids to be drinking? We order it nearly every time we go to Starbucks.”
So is Chai Tea healthy? Is it an alternative to calorie-laden frappucinos or other beverages you might find at the coffee shop? With comfortable and warming flavors of clover and cinnamon, it can’t be all that bad, right?
I checked out a few of the recipes out there for Chai Tea. Cane sugar, honey and citric acid are three of the primary ingredients in the syrupy concentrate that is used to make the chai tea latte at Starbucks, which hammers you with 220-300 calories per drink.
Another version of chai, Oregan Chai Tea Concentrate, is probably the most popular version of chai used by most coffeeshops and restaurants, and although quite tasty, delivers a walloping 19 grams of sugar from “organic” evaporated cane juice. Don’t let the “organic” part of that fool you. Organic sugar is just the pure, nutrient and fiber stripped extract from sugar cane. Sure, they may not have sprayed the sugar cane with herbicides and pesticides. But it’s just pure sugar.
In this February 3rd free audio episode: what you don’t know about sugar, restless leg syndrome, getting rid of sciatic pain, whether something called “Ripped Freak” actually works, appetite suppressing tricks, when to foam roll, marathon before a triathlon, and excessively high heart rates during exercise.
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There occasionally comes a time in my hectic lifestyle of endurance, nutrition and fitness coaching, training and racing where I stumble upon something that truly alters my performance and recovery in a significantly positive way. But for each of these instances, there are a thousand examples of products that just don’t seem to work, and waste time and money for my athletes and myself. So when Mr. Stout from Mt. Capra called me on the phone and asked me to try their new “sports recovery” product, I was naturally skeptical, since the market is saturated with literally hundreds of recovery compounds.
What arrived in the mail the next day was a small canister, about the size of a yogurt container, of something called “Solar Synergy”. When I opened the lid, the container revealed a dark orange powder that smelled like a mix of sweet tropical aromas and salty minerals. I was instructed to take about 1 tablespoon per day, mixed into a glass of water or smoothie – preferably after a workout.
They also sent over a nutrition label image which you can read here and a facts sheet PDF document which you can read here.
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Folks, you seem to like Dr. Carolyn Dean so much, I’ve decided to get her on for another awesome free audio podcast this month! Prepare for a mid-February interview with the nation’s leading natural physician. In celebration of the upcoming interview, and the addition of Dr. Dean’s book “Death by Modern Medicine” to the BenGreenfieldFitness.com website, I’m releasing another article from Dr. Dean, entitled “Am I Too Hard On Modern Medicine?”
After reading this article, do you agree with Dr. Dean? Do you have questions that you’d like me to ask her about modern medicine in the upcoming interview? Just leave your comment below with the question you’d like to ask Dr. Dean when I interview her in just 2 weeks…
“I do not believe in blacklisting either alternative or mainstream medicine in the good/bad debate of who is the best, etc. There is good and bad in both. Your message would be more powerful if you criticized less and focused on the integrative approach to mainstream and alternative medicine…”
This sounds all nice and harmonious. Sort of how we all think the world “should be” versus how it “really is.” It doesn’t reflect a true understanding of the disastrous medical situation that is taking millions of lives and costing billions of dollars each year. Read the rest of this entry »
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In this January 20 free audio episode: vitamin D, good carbohydrates, using weight vest and ankle weights for calorie burning, skiing for triathlon training, too much urination during exercise, exercise and hashimotos disease, and how to stay fit when you’re partying.
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Anonymous asks: Hi there Ben, i have a question on what is considered the safest least injury free running form? heel to toe or midfoot to forefoot? Also any thought on Newton Running shoes? i run in a new pair of Asics pronation support shoe..i roll inward ..ive had trouble with hip and knee when .physical thearpy said hip is rotated and gluteus medius is weak. He also suggested midfoot to forefoot running is better on the body and he wears Newtons. i looked up proper running form and seems more people run midfoot to forefoot as well. Any thoughts or advice on this. Thanks.
Whether you’re a brand new fan of the podcast at http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com or you’ve been a long-time listener, you’ll probably be interested in the freshly tallied results of our most popular podcasts of 2009.
I was actually a bit surprised as I went through the results and statistics of our “most downloaded” episodes. It always amazes me which podcasts you like the most!
OK, without further ado, here are the Top 10 Most Downloaded Podcasts of 2009 from http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com. Remember, you can listen to all of these for free by simply going to the shownotes for that episode at http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com, or by simply doing a “search” on the right upper side of the Ben Greenfield Fitness website, or by simply clicking below…
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Last week’s interview with Nancy Appleton on “Suicide By Sugar” got a lot of people talking. One listener wrote in and asked me about chai tea.
