Buck said:I think a lot of the youth problems we are facing these days are caused
by absentee/too tired to care parents. I think its a direct result of
having kids later in life. Really, how many older parents out there
have the energy to haul their kids around in a bicycle trailer after
coming home from a long day at work? Most of them are just old and
tired and want to sit in front of the tv every noght....
The tiredness, has a lot to do with eating and activity. For example,
look at the typical American eatting pattern. Very light breakfast,
probably coffee, a light lunch probably something off the "coffee
truck", so it's highly processed. Then a giant, high fat, high carb
meal in the evening, followed by copious amounts of inactivity. It
takes your pancreas a long time to process all those carbs (sugars),
which is why, it's often recommended for Type 2 diabetics with high
sugar to go for a walk to bring it down, rather then to pop an extra
pill. They often feel very tired when they have high sugar.
The time for high carbs is the morning, when you have stuff to do, like
ride your bike to work, or walk to transit, actually the carbs +
activity will burn off much of the simple sugars and process the carbs,
to give you energy. Actually what gives you energy from activity is
that it gets the blood pumping, so those carbs go into muscle fuel
rather then into storage as fat. Muscles love converting fuel into
activity.
This is why, you can have a good hearty breakfast on a Saturday morning,
go for a 20 mile bike ride, come home, and then have enough energy to
tackle cleaning the garage. Back to eating, follow this up with a
moderate, from home lunch, where you can balance out what your eating
with what you need to eat. Follow this up with a light supper, if your
planning on spending the evening in front of the box.
W
