Pecan Health

02/08/2025

BACK TO SCHOOL SOON!!
📚 How Much Sugar Are Kids Really Eating at School?
🍩 Spoiler: More than you think… and it's not just dessert.

Between fruit juice, chocolate milk, granola bars, breakfast cereal, ketchup, “fruit” snacks, and lunchroom pizza crust, many kids are unknowingly consuming over 100 grams of added sugar—just during school hours. That’s the equivalent of 20 teaspoons before they even get home. Yay!

😴 And the result?
• Brain fog
• Mood swings
• Midday crashes
• Behavior labeled as “disruptive”
• Insulin resistance in the making

🍎 We don’t need more sugar in schools.
We need better food.

🧠 A stable brain starts with stable blood sugar.

01/08/2025

📣 POST: “Healthy Food Has a PR Problem”

🥦 Broccoli doesn’t have a marketing team. But processed food does.

From the bright colors to the cartoon mascots, ultra-processed foods are designed to hijack your taste buds—and your metabolism.

🍩 Most processed foods are engineered to be hyper-palatable, addictive, and cheap… but the real cost shows up in our insulin resistance, inflammation, and chronic fatigue.

🧃 Sugar is the lead actor, but processed food is the whole cast.

♟ And the USDA, ADA, and AHA? Let’s just say they’ve been playing supporting roles in this junk food drama for decades.

🔍 If you're tired of feeling tired, start by reading ingredients, not just calories. The fewer syllables, the better.

👉 Eat like your great-grandparents—if they wouldn’t recognize it as food, maybe you shouldn’t either.

29/07/2025

If you’ve tried cutting calories and hitting the gym but still aren’t seeing results, you’re not broken—you’ve just been given the wrong playbook. 🧬

The old “eat less, move more” advice completely ignores the role of metabolism, hormones, insulin resistance, and stress chemistry like cortisol.

🧠 Your body isn’t fighting you—it’s trying to protect you.

19/07/2025

Would you tell them "everything in moderation"?
🧠 Addiction is addiction.
🍩 Sugar and processed food hijack the brain the same way hard drugs do.
But only one gets told to “just have a little.”
Let’s stop normalizing the trap.

18/07/2025

🗽🍭 America’s Sugar Tower 🍭🗽

Imagine the Empire State Building…

Now imagine TWENTY of them…

Filled. To. The. Top.
With granulated sugar.

That’s how much sugar Americans consume every single year — 33.5 BILLION pounds.

😳
That’s 766 million cubic feet of sugar — enough to cover 1,330 football fields with a 10-foot-deep layer of sweet white powder.

And it’s not just desserts — it’s hidden in sauces, breads, dressings, snacks, drinks, and more. Now add up the amount of corn and wheat we consume and that give you an even better picture why Americans have so much chronic disease.

🧠 This isn’t just a fun fact. It’s a metabolic health crisis.

📉 Fatigue. Brain fog. Insulin resistance. Chronic disease.

🍽️ It’s time to rethink what we’re feeding our bodies.

17/07/2025

🧠💔 Is your depression actually coming from your gut?
We’ve been taught to think of depression as purely a chemical imbalance in the brain—but the truth is far more connected.

👉 Over 90% of serotonin is produced in the gut.
👉 Chronic inflammation, poor microbiome diversity, and leaky gut can all disrupt mood.
👉 Antibiotics, sugar, processed foods, and stress? They all play a role.

🌿 Functional medicine asks the deeper question:
What’s driving the mood changes?
Gut health might be the key your brain has been waiting for.

16/07/2025

🧠 SCIENTISTS SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO CONFIRM WHAT YOUR GRANDMA ALREADY KNEW:
You can’t outrun a donut. 🍩💨

Turns out, it’s not your treadmill that’s failing you — it’s your fork.
A massive global study published in PNAS (July 2025) found that overeating crappy food — not inactivity — is the primary driver of the global obesity crisis.
Even people in sedentary, industrialized societies have a near net zero expenditure of calories just like hunter-gatherer societies that are nearly devoid of chronic diseases. 🤯

📖 Source: Pontzer et al. Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum, PNAS, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420902122

Up to 88% of American adults have Insulin Resistance, a metabolic disorder that is causing the majority of our illnesses, so by treating one condition, we can prevent or reverse a multitude of others including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, ect. Pecan Health is here to help.

14/07/2025

📣 Breaking News: We had to invent a whole new branch of medicine just to remember to ask... WHY. 🤯

🩺 "Functional Medicine": because apparently “Let’s figure out what’s actually causing your symptoms” was too wild for traditional healthcare. 😅

01/05/2025

30/04/2025

Fart Walk!!

29/04/2025

Why are seed oils unhealthy?

29/04/2025

What is RFK jr. up to?