Here in this article, I would like to show you that Sugar is anything but Natural. Some say "stay with sugar, you know what it is" and it's true that we need to keep away from the perils of Aspartame, Sucralose and other Synthetic Sweeteners that have bitter consequences to our health. I intend to show you it is not good to trust in Sugar because Sugar-Sweet can become Sour when it comes to our health. The Sugar Habit can be overpowering I know, as someone who got acutely anemic at the age of 30 - never liked sugar much before and got addicted to Peppermint TicTacs, finding them refreshing I lost my appetite for food most of the time. And it was the concentrated sugar content that kept me on them. This concentrated sugar would continually pick my mood level up and drop it down - I did not know what was happening to me! Everywhere, these days, there's SUGAR in everything almost and it's a Culprit that deserves our contempt if we wish to protect our Health - mentally, physically and emotionally - especially our kids. It is not fair to see some kids obese and unhealthy even before they grow up AND It is not right to see Health Stores marketing 'Organic Sugar' in the name of health. Friends, that is a sneeky compromize. Anything for the Dollar! ALL Synthetic Sweeteners are comprised OR adulterated with Nasty Chemicals and Sugar is not far behind them because it goes through a Unnatural Process that actually changes it into a chemical. This takes place in the separation and crystallization of all sugars - the so-called raw sugar and brown sugar included. Sugar Cane will not be of any benefit to your health whatsoever because the nutrients are all stripped away leaving you nothing but empty calories. What Eating Too Much
Sugar Does to Your Brain David DiSalvo from Neuronarrative Overeating, poor
memory formation, learning disorders, depression — all have been linked in
recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a
problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake
of added sugar is doing to our brains. While a healthy diet would contain a
significant amount of naturally occurring sugar (in fruits and grains, for
example), the problem is that we're chronically consuming much more added sugar
in processed foods, often in the rapidly absorbed form of fructose.
That's an important
clarification because our brains need sugar every day to function. Brain cells
require two times the energy needed by all the other cells in the body; roughly
10% of our total daily energy requirements. This energy is derived from glucose
(blood sugar), the gasoline of our brains. Sugar (naturally occurring in food) is not the brain's enemy— added
sugar is. Research indicates
that a diet high in added sugar reduces the production of a brain chemical known
as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Without BDNF, our brains can't
form new memories and we can't learn (or remember) much of anything.
Levels of BDNF are particularly low in people with an impaired glucose
metabolism—diabetics and pre-diabetics—and as the amount of BDNF decreases,
sugar metabolism worsens. David DiSalvo is a
science and technology writer working at the intersection of cognition and
culture. He is the author of
three book titles on brain health and he is frequently interviewed about
science and technology topics, including appearances on NBC Nightly News and CNN Headline News. The Added Sugar David referring to is cane sugar in candy, added to tea and coffee, sugar granuels (white sugar, raw sugar and brown sugar) we have on our breakfast and in cakes and biscuits etc excessive fruit juice intake and high fructose corn syrup that is added to commercial drinks sold in supermarkets and most snack foods these days. THAT'S A LOT!!! In the 1950’s Dr.
William Coda Martin launched a
battle against the refined sugars present in foods and drinks. So the knowledge of the adverse effects of sugar on health reaches as far back as
then. In 1957 he explained how toxic food substances affect our mind and body
adversely. The importance of these truths have been ignored for years by
Governments, the Medical Profession and Education ever since apart from advice to
diabetics and dieters. What about the following important issues? Why Sugar Is Toxic To The Body Dr. Martin
classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life
forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left consists of pure, refined
carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate
unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present. Nature
supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize
the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added
carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of
'toxic metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five
carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the
abnormal sugars in the red blood cells.These toxic metabolites interfere with
the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and
function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the
function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative
disease." Refined sugar is
lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which
nutritionists describe as "empty" calories. It lacks the natural
minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition,
sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious
vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and
elimination makes upon one's entire system. So essential is balance to our
bodies that we have many ways to provide against the sudden shock of a heavy
intake of sugar” it actually draws from our reserves of these vital nutrients
depleting them over time (abbreviated). SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH In the Dark
Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such
confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the transition
from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's confection. "The great
confinement of the insane", as one historian calls it,10 began in the late
17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a
pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than two million
pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London had begun to observe and
record terminal physical signs and symptoms of the "sugar blues". Meanwhile, when
sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical symptoms and the
physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced
bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, parental displeasure-any one problem was sufficient cause for
people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisian mental hospitals.
Initially, when
the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal decree, one per cent of
the city's population was locked up. From that time until the 20 century, as
the consumption of sugar went up and up-especially in the cities-so did the
number of people who were put away in the General Hospital. Three hundred years
later, the "emotionally disturbed" can be turned into walking
automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive drugs. Today, pioneers of
orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A.
Cherkin as well as Dr. Linus Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a
myth and that emotional disturbance can be the first symptom of the
obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency. In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr. Pauling writes: "The functioning of the
brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical
reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that
mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as
determined by genetic constitution and diet”. Extracts from Sugar Blues, © 1975 by
William Dufty It’s late in the
day friends, that’s why these Issues are now being addressed by dedicated
professional researchers and scientists. You can be sure that most general
practitioners and specialists will remain ignorant for some time.
Is Sugar Toxic? Insane But True Things by Jedha Dening Nutritionist (MNutr.Bssc) People are consuming astronomical
amounts of sugar Compared
to 100 years ago we now consume more than 100% more sugar. Going from a mere 10
pounds per person per year, to an estimated 130-180 pounds per person per year!
That statistic is incredible but believable. Sugar is hidden in so many modern
foods, so most of the time it is being consumed unknowingly. All of those
common processed and packaged food are made from refined carbohydrates that
convert into sugar in your body. Sugar is equivalent to cocaine Eric
Stice, a neuro scientist, studies how sugar affects the brain. As if we didn’t
know already but sugar is highly, highly addictive! In fact you may be
surprised to know that it activates the brain in the same way as cocaine. It is
literally as addictive as this highly potent drug! And just like a drug, the
more sugar we eat, the more we build up a dependence, it blunts the response in
our brain so we need to eat more and more and more. Consumption
of sugar is also linked to mental/emotional conditions of the brain such as
depression, anxiety, panic attacks, ADD/ADHD, bipolar, cognitive disorders and
many others. It causes chemical reactions in both our bodies and our brain as
Eric Stice clearly shows in his studies. Sugar is a killer So is
sugar toxic? Well according to the definitions given above, yes sugar is highly
toxic! Although
we might like to think we can get away with eating it, our bodies do not lie.
And the millions of people’s bodies around the world suffering from illness do
not lie! Sugar has
been linked in many studies by many researchers all around the world to the
development of heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cancer,
and even death! Certainly it’s not always the whole picture, but it is one of
the largest contributors. Lewis
Cantly, a cancer researcher, has been studying sugar as a main contributer to
the rise in cancer. He says that this is because insulin causes so many adverse
affects to cells in the body. Eating sugar equals increased insulin! So
limiting our sugar intake decreases our chances of contracting cancer. Refer to
the paragraph above where it states how the cells don’t get enough oxygen to
function. And in the video below Dr Cantly shows how sugar feeds cancer cells. Another
study by Kimber Stanhope, a nutritional biologist, shows that participants
consuming sugar had increased blood levels of LDL cholesterol (the bad stuff),
and cardiovascular disease. This can happen in just 2 weeks of increased sugar
intake, so imagine what years can do to our cholesterol and heart condition. Why Sugar
Makes Us Sleepy – And Protein Wakes Us Up By Jonah
Lehrer Consider the orexin system. Secreted by a
small cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus, orexin is a neuropeptide that
regulates an astonishing array of mental properties, from sleepiness to hunger.
People with chronically low levels of orexin suffer from narcolepsy and
obesity; many also have cataplexy, which occurs when the experience of strong
emotions triggers a sudden weakening of skeletal muscles. (Laughter makes them
go limp.) Studies have shown that injecting mice with orexin increases
metabolism, largely because it makes the animals more active. The reverse is
also true: low levels of orexin make people feel rundown and tired. This helps
explain the mechanics of sleep deprivation, as keeping monkeys awake for
extended periods all but silences their orexin cells. (However, studies show
that the exhaustion can be quickly cured
with an injection of the peptide.) In many respects, orexin acts like an
internal gas pedal, as even slight twitches in the system can dramatically
shift levels of activity. The reason the orexin system is so important
is that it links the needs of the body to the desires of the mind. Several studies
have demonstrated
that the intake of sugar can decrease the activity of orexin cells, which is
probably why we want to nap after a carb heavy lunch. This phenomenon also
begins to explain the downward spiral of obesity triggered by our warped modern
diet. Because we eat lots of refined sugars, washing down Twinkies with cans of
Coke, we continually reduce levels of orexin in the brain, which then reduces
levels of physical activity. In other words, we get fat and sleepy
simultaneously. However, not every food has such perverse
consequences. It’s long been recognized that meals high in protein are both
more filling and less exhausting, which is why we’re always being told to snack
on almonds and follow the Zone Diet, with its balance of carbs, protein and
fat. (This study,
for instance, found that protein rich breakfasts significantly improved
cognitive performance.) Although the biological mechanism behind this dietary
wisdom has always been unclear, that’s beginning to change – we finally
understand why consuming protein can be an effective weight loss tool. The
answer returns us to orexin. According to a new paper
in Neuron led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, consuming
foods high in protein can increase the activity of orexin neurons. This, in
turn, leads to increased wakefullness and bodily activity, helping us burn off
the calories we just consumed. Sugar disturbs hormonal balance. Sugar excess can set you up for insomnia. Sugar creates spikes in your Insulin levels. Sugar is 1 Atom away in chemistry structure to Cocaine. Sugar intake elevates stress Cortisol levels. Sugar daily intake is prematurely Aging like smoking. Sugar adversely affects our Vision like too much TV Sugar contributes to inflammation like coffee. Sugar affects our memory like margarine does. Sugar can
sabotage your body and cause fat storage. Sugar can set you up for Lethargy and Fatigue. Sugar intake is more than mischievous it's dangerous! AND Artificial Sugars are not a solution - don't opt for 10x worse. Sugar is a legal drug without boundaries. Sugar can impair our DNA function. So as we can see, Sugar is no friend to have after-all when it comes to sweet comfort foods. Not so sweet - Not so comforting. What other ways does this friend/foe effect our health, need more Info? That's OK, go to my SUGAR FACTS page. I have easy to understand Info collated into separate lists for Women - Mothers and Babies - Children - Aging Factors - Elderly It was a lot of work. You will also find YouTube videos there! IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS But Do Avoid Artificial Sweeteners - Don't Opt for Them! Artificial Sweeteners
and Excessive Sodium lead to Kidney Function
Decline, Weight Gain, Diabetes, Cancer, and Heart Disease. According to
studies of 3,000 women over an 11-year period, excessive intake of sodium and
sweetened beverages correlate with kidney function. In a second study, women
who drank two or more servings per day of artificially sweetened soda doubled
their odds of kidney function decline. Scientific
studies have linked artificial sweeteners and/or diet soda to weight gain,
diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. As a society, we disregard these possible dangers to the
detriment of our health. We have grown accustomed to the intense saltiness
of restaurant meals and processed foods, and the intense artificial sweetness
of Aspartame, Acesulfame K, and Sucralose. By cutting these harmful
substances out of our diets, we can begin to enjoy the more subtle flavors of
natural whole foods, and benefit our kidneys in the process. JOEL FUHRMAN, M.D |
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