Sweet D8

[macdaddy]

This was disturbing.   

 

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/presents18931717/the-nba-secret-addiction

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IT WAS WINTER of 2013, and those in Dwight Howard's inner orbit begged the All-Star center to kick his addiction, but he denied he had one. Why, he'd dominated for years as the NBA's best big man, carrying the Magic to the Finals in 2009. Then came surgery on a herniated disk in April 2012, followed by an August trade to the Lakers, who had paraded him around like their next Wilt, Kareem or Shaq -- an unstoppable center who would deliver titles in droves. But his back just wasn't healing. Howard was 27, sculpted like a statue in the Louvre, but he labored down the court like a retired fullback. The Lakers plummeted below .500 in January, with Kobe Bryant barking at Howard to man up, though in terms a tad more colorful. But the team's chef and its strength and conditioning coach stressed a different message: "Man up -- and get off this sugar."

By February's All-Star break, it was time for a full-blown intervention, and Dr. Cate Shanahan, the Lakers' nutritionist, led the charge, speaking to Howard by phone from her office in Napa, California. Howard's legs tingled, he complained, but she noticed he was having trouble catching passes too, as if his hands were wrapped in oven mitts. Well, he quietly admitted, his fingers also tingled. Shanahan, with two decades of experience in the field, knew Howard possessed a legendary sweet tooth, and she suspected his consumption of sugar was causing a nerve dysfunction called dysesthesia, which she'd seen in patients with prediabetes. She urged him to cut back on sugar for two weeks. If that didn't help, she said, she vowed to resign.

To alter Howard's diet, though, Shanahan first had to understand it. After calls with his bodyguard, chef and a personal assistant, she uncovered a startling fact: Howard had been scarfing down about two dozen chocolate bars' worth of sugar every single day for years, possibly as long as a decade. "You name it, he ate it," she says. Skittles, Starbursts, Rolos, Snickers, Mars bars, Twizzlers, Almond Joys, Kit Kats and oh, how he loved Reese's Pieces. He'd eat them before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, after dinner, and like any junkie, he had stashes all over -- in his kitchen, his bedroom, his car, a fix always within reach. She told his assistants to empty his house, and they hauled out his monstrous candy stash in boxes -- yes, boxes, plural. Howard ultimately vowed to go clean all at once, but before he committed to cutting the junk in his diet, he asked Shanahan one question. It was about one food he wasn't willing to surrender, one snack at which he had to draw the line.

He wanted to know whether he could still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

DiFrancesco was hardly surprised. When he'd joined the Lakers in 2011 and begun traveling around the league, he'd already seen it: Four years after KG's PB&J epiphany, virtually every player's lounge and practice site was stocked with jumbo-sized jars of peanut butter and jelly, bookended by a loaf or two of bread. DiFrancesco had had his eye on improving player diets, but Mount PB&J was clearly not the hill to die upon. "You pick your battles," he says.

Which is exactly what DiFrancesco told Shanahan as they began working with Howard, in 2013, to overhaul his sugary diet. Their demands weren't onerous: He didn't have to quit cold turkey, they only wanted Howard to try a healthier approach, with soft sourdough, organic peanut butter and low-sugar jelly. Tensions were high when they presented Howard with the healthier version. But as he sank his teeth in, Howard grinned, "Yeah, this will work." Howard, as requested, cut out sugars from his diet. The tingling in his fingers and legs ceased. After the All-Star break, he tallied 1.8 more rebounds, 2.1 more points and 2.5 more minutes per game.

Today, Shanahan accepts what DiFrancesco realized years ago: "The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is absolutely never going to not be in the NBA. And I feel confident saying never."

 

[Guest]

38 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Skittles, Starbursts, Rolos, Snickers, Mars bars, Twizzlers, Almond Joys, Kit Kats and oh, how he loved Reese's Pieces.

Was he raiding my house or what?-Fatty

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

Was he raiding my house or what?-Fatty

Nah I'm sure when they finally bring the crane in and cut you out of your house, they'll find way more candy than that.

Funny you thought you could preempt the fatty insults with your preemptive strike.

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, kg01 said:

Nah I'm sure when they finally bring the crane in and cut you out of your house, they'll find way more candy than that.

Funny you thought you could preempt the fatty insults with your preemptive strike.

Hahaha any good hiding spots in the sac o culdy?

[Sothron]

The diabetic in me just about went into a coma just from reading

[Guest]

Lots of NBA players have this sweet tooth addiction.  Lamar Odom and skittles - I think he had a skittles machine at his house.

[Thomas]

7 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Lots of NBA players have this sweet tooth addiction.  Lamar Odom and skittles - I think he had a skittles machine at his house.

Safer than an ATM machine.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

skittles machine

I thought it was more of a whorehouse machine..

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

I thought it was more of a whorehouse machine..

Or a meth fountain.  Too soon?

[macdaddy]

18 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

I thought it was more of a whorehouse machine..

Should have had a condom machine.

[PSSSHHHRRR87]

Sugar Daddy is a double entendre for Dwight.

[Thomas]

On 3/22/2017 at 10:49 AM, macdaddy said:

The tingling in his fingers and legs ceased.

From my experience Cabernet eventually takes care of that. Nutritionist not necessary. 

[macdaddy]

It's unreal to me that the body can even tolerate that much sugar.   Only when you're young though.   Still the idea that you'd consume that much junk when you make your living on athletic performance is just dumb.