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Getting overhead

Can't keep these young bucks down...

Nick

The new gear is in and is fresh as eva.... get it while you can!  The back of both shirts say "Bye Hater."  The is nothing on the back of the sweatshirt, only the logo on the hood.

Congratulations to Aryeh who just completed a half marathon snow shoe race this past weekend!  The trail was 3 miles up and 3 miles down by 2.  Great job Aryeh!!!

There has been a tone of information out there on Agave.  This has almost been dubbed the miracle sweetner for all you paleo eaters.  However, how much do we really understand about this food.  It seems that Agave is not the miracle sweetner it has been billed to be. When someone discuses the glycemic index, this relates to how blood sugar is effected when ingesting food and ultimately how insulin reacts to blood sugar. There are more than a few ways to spike insulin, one of them is through taste. Insulin spikes in response to a taste of something sweet. While agave might be low on the gylcemic index it is still sweet and composed of Fructose that has been linked to many other problems.

"Agave...most especially, that it has a relatively low glycemic index. A large body of research shows that foods with low glycemic indexes, such as vegetables, beans and high-fiber foods in general, tend to be healthier for us than foods that quickly raise our blood sugar. But in the case of agave nectar, you have to ask, why does this sugar have a low-glycemic index? And the answer is that agave nectar is made largely of fructose, which, even though it has a low glycemic index, is being implicated in many long-term health problems. With the exception of pure liquid fructose, agave nectar has the highest fructose content of any commercial sweetener. It’s worth knowing that all sugars, from white table sugar to high-fructose corn syrup and even honey, include some mixture of fructose and glucose. For example, table sugar is 50% fructose/50% glucose and HFCS is 55/45. Agave nectar is a whopping 70% to 90% fructose..."  Read more here...www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html

 

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Quote of the day

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."Horace Mann

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Sectional Update

We are gonna post updates each day on events for the sectionals.  Keep checking back for details.

Please remember to bring some cash if you plan on purchasing food at the games.  There will be many vendors selling gear, LuLu Lemon, BSC (compression clothing), Shoe Mart (inov-8's, vibram 5's, etc.. shoes), Heather Bars, Freak Food, and Again Faster.  I am sure that most of these vendors will have means for credit cards, however just in case I would have some cash on hand.