All 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 are now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs of sugar per year. This is per man, woman, and child.

 

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.

 

(b) The damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its

formula. Even mother milk is contaminated with it if the mother eats sugar.

 

(c) Practically 95% of people are addicted to it to some degree or other.

 

Sugar Is Eaten To Excess:

It has been said that the criteria as to whether a substance (any substance) is harmful or

medically beneficial are 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,

and 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, 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, which is 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 bulimia.

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.

Which causes the body to store excess carbs as fat.