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Get
the Facts About Sugar.
The
white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural
substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar
cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after
stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and
other beneficial nutrients.
What
is left is a concentrated unnatural substance which the human
body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the
quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle.
The
biggest reason sugar does more damage than any other poison,
drug or narcotic is twofold:
(a)
It is considered a "food" and ingested in such massive
quantities, and
(b)
The damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born
and is fed sugar in its formula. Even mothers milk is
contaminated with it if the mother eats sugar, and
(c)
Practically 95% of people are addicted to it to some degree or
other.
Sugar is addictive.
The average American now consumes
approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman
and child.
Sugar
is eaten to excess
It
has been said that the criteria as to whether a substance (any
substance) is harmful or medically beneficial is the quantity in
which it is used in the human body.
To point to a dramatic
illustration: we all know that the venom of a rattlesnake, a
cobra, water moccasin, coral, and other venomous snakes is
deadly to the human system.
There are some snakes whose bite is
so deadly it can cause death within a matter of seconds.
Nevertheless, even snake venom, deadly as it is, has been used
for therapeutic, medical purposes when used in minute
quantities.
History
of sugar
Whereas
sugar had been around in minute quantities for several thousand years,
it was practically unknown and formed an insignificant part of the
average diet in the Classical civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome.
The Greeks (who had a word for nearly everything!) did not even have a
word for it. Even in medieval Europe it was practically unknown and then
only a rare delicacy in the royal courts.
During
the last major Crusade that ended in 1204 some of the Christian
Crusaders were introduced to sugar freely used by the Saracens.
The
Moors when invading and colonizing the southern part of Spain grew sugar
cane on Spanish soil and refined sugar.
When Spain drove out the Moors,
it inherited some of the cane plantations. It was during this time that
Christendom took its first big bite of the forbidden fruit and liked it.
Sugar
is addictive
A
second reason that sugar is so harmful is that like heroin it is
addictive, and being delectable and seductive to the taste, it is also
habit forming.
Starting with sugar in the baby's formula, people not
only develop a strong taste for sugar but an insatiable craving for it
so that they never seem to get enough of this poison.
Sugar
is an unnatural chemical
Why
is sugar so devastating to our health? One reason is it is pure chemical
and (like heroin) through refining has been stripped of all the natural
food nutrition that it originally had in the plant itself.
Heroin
and sugar are arrived at by very similar processes of refinement. In
producing heroin, the opium is first extracted from the poppy: The opium
is then refined into morphine.
The chemists then went to work on
morphine and further refined it into heroin, proclaiming they had
"discovered" a wonderful new pain-killer that was
non-addictive. So they said.
Similarly,
sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane (or beet) and refined
into molasses. Then it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into
strange white crystals C12H22O, that are an alien chemical to the human
system.
Slow
but insidious
A
third reason is that the damage sugar does is slow and insidious. It
takes years before it ruins your pancreas, your adrenal glands, throws
your whole endocrine system out of kilter and produces a huge list of
damage.
Foods
are loaded with sugar
A
fourth reason is the outrageous amounts of sugar civilized nations
consume. Americans in particular are told how they are the best fed and
best nourished people on the face of the earth. If we are talking about
processed junk food - this is true.
If you
examine the "foods" in any supermarket more closely and start
reading labels, you will find just about everything contains sugar. Most
of the foods are loaded with it - from cereals, to soups, to ketchup, to
hotdogs. Even flue-cured tobacco can contain as much as 20% sugar by
weight. Some cereals are as much as 50% sugar.
List
of Damages
We
have stated that sugar is deleterious to your health: that it is more
damaging than all other narcotics combined; that it is a long term
chemical poison. Just what damage does sugar do to the human body? The
list is endless.
When we talk about sugar, we are including bad nutrition as a whole,
since anyone who indulges in sugar has bad dietary habits per se.
1. Sugar
is by far the leading cause of dental deterioration - cavities in teeth,
bleeding gums, failure of bone structure, and loss of teeth.
2. Sugar
is the main cause of diabetes, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
3. It is
either a significant or contributory cause of heart disease,
arteriosclerosis, mental illness, depression, senility, hypertension,
cancer.
4. It has
an extremely harmful effect in unbalancing the endocrine system and
injuring its component glands such as the adrenal glands, pancreas and
liver, causing the blood sugar level to fluctuate widely. It has a
number of other extremely damaging effects on the human body.
Some of
the other effects of sugar on the body are:
*
Increases overgrowth of candida yeast organism
* Increases chronic fatigue
* Can trigger binge eating in those with bulima
* Increases PMS symptoms
* Increases hyperactivity in about 50% of children
* Increases tooth decay
* Increases anxiety and irritability
* Can increase or intensify symptoms of anxiety and panic in susceptible
women
* Can make it difficult to lose weight because of constantly high insulin
levels,
which causes the body to store excess carbs as fat.
Sugar and carbohydrates are in most of our foods,
if you've ever tried the Atkins Diet them you know first hand how
difficult it is to not eat carbs. That's why a lot of people are
turning to naturally supplementing their diet with the things it needs
to stay healthy and slim.
When you can't stand it anymore and you eat a high
carb or high sugar snack, taking Carb-Lo
will help. It is designed to cut the fat producing effect of the
excess carbohydrates.
Do you crave sweets and sugary foods? You
can help yourself stop your addiction with Aversion Therapy which is
available free on CD with a sample of Sugar Blocker Gum.
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