It's all about the sugar

Are you a sugar addict ?

This includes white refined, brown, raw, corn syrup, fructose, barley malt, rice syrup, maltodextrin, molasses, maple syrup, aspartame, saccharin, xylitol, honey (well honey is natural) if you had to go though withdrawals, honey is a good natural alternative, then lessen your intake of honey. The only accepted sugars are fruit (except grapes, oranges, ands bananas), fruit juice and some dried fruit, if needed.

Note that since fruit is yeast producing, we must temporarily remove it to balance body chemistry. If you are very sick, you will need to remove all fruit to regain your health. Malnutrition from as little as 2 teaspoons per day of sugar (including honey, maple syrup, rice syrup, etc., as well as fruit sugar) can throw the mineral ratio out of balance. The body depends on minerals to activate enzymes. Without enzymes, the body cannot digest and assimilate nutrients, a failure, which can initiate food allergy reactions.

Eliminating sugar is challenging, but it is also one of the most critical and rewarding steps you can take toward better health. Low blood sugar symptoms include irritability, nervousness, fatigue, depression, memory loss and increased sugar (and alcohol) cravings. When these powerful cravings are given into, the whole chain reaction of impeded nutrient intake begins again. After years of sugar ingestion the defenses of the body become exhausted and cellular and tissue damage begin. Degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, osteoporosis and failure to maintain homeostasis (for example, stable blood sugar and blood pressure levels, digestion and body temperature) may begin to develop. Remember sugar is a poison, look at the book called “sweet poison” for more information.

The average American eats 170 pounds of sugar per year, Australia is not very far behind! We are now the fattest nation in the world. How much do you eat? A more modern form of refined sugar is high fructose corn syrup introduced in the 1970s. It was considered to be even less expensive to produce than sugar from beets or sugar cane. It now represents more than 50 % of the sugar in processed foods, soft drinks and baked goods, and the percentage is growing, been implicated in heart disease, high blood cholesterol and blood clotting dysfunction. It also causes our white blood cells to become “sleepy” and unable to defend against foreign invaders.

Sugar consumption over the last 200 years is a major contributor to the toxic period in which we live. With the addition of other modern innovations such as mercury amalgam fillings and widespread petroleum chemical use, the ever-growing list of modern degenerative diseases has not been coincidental. The harmfulness of sugar and other toxic ingredients in manufactured foods dwells not just in the threat of future diseases, but also in respect to one’s daily mood, feelings and life choices. It is much easier to summon the will to say no and eat a sane diet of life-positive foods, there are alternatives!

Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as “empty” or “naked” calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. For a good read on sugar get David Gillespie’s “Sweet Poison” book.

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