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Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that's like a pinch of Big League Chew bubble gum: damn delicious and over with in two min flat. Let's go.
🥤 Liquid death. Dr. Attia dropped a banger on why you should never drink your sugar. Foods with naturally occurring sugar > drinks with naturally occurring sugar > drinks with fake sugar. Pretty simple.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Gatorade is aight, but only when you are, uh, actually working out. Funny enough, the reason kids didn't blow up when slugging back a case of Capri Suns is because they were outside running around like jackals.
🏋️♀️ Squat normal. The best raw squatters in the game do not need to get their feet wide to squat. The wider your squat, the less it works glutes. And your ass is the center of your body and thus the most important muscle in any athletic movement.
🍎 Andrew's Take. The basic lifts should look basic. Nothing fancy. No weird stances. Feet and hands are roughly shoulder-width apart unless something really hurts (in which case, make a small adjustment).
🥛 Before milk got hot. Imagine: it's the 1850s in New York City. People want fresh milk, so some "farmers" build indoor "farms" in random warehouses in Brooklyn. Yeah, there is not a lot of open land for livestock, so these tiny crammed cages will just have to do. They fed the cows leftover mash from leftover whiskey distilleries. And boom: New Yorkers had fresh local milk. Pretty smart, no? Well, until the cows got sick (did not take long) and the tainted milk killed 8,000 infants in a single year. Yikes. It's known as the swill milk scandal. The action food administrators took was to pasteurize (aka heat) the milk so all bacteria was killed. Today, 99% of milk is pasteurized, the ~1% being raw (with good bacteria intact) only available through a direct (and oftentimes pricey) relationship with farmers.
🍎 Andrew's Take. This was the beginning of many FDA/USDA actions took to remove all potential contamination from our food supply. Generally good, but it led to removing key micronutrients and probiotics that kept our ancestors vital and healthy. Humans are a lot older than 170 years, so when we look at the health status of Americans today, we are left wondering: maybe we should have cried over spilled milk?
🕊️ Tweet of the Day. This includes distinctively American things like Chuck-E Cheese's arcades, trampoline parks, and laser tag bunkers. Don't sleep on 'em.
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Your friend,
Andrew🍎
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