How Sugar Destroys Your Health

What Sugar Does to Our Body

2010-01-30T22:20:00.000-08:00

What really happens to our body when we eat sugar? To put it simply, it upsets our entire body chemistry and undermines our health.

Refine sugar, which lacks the natural minerals present in sugar beet or cane, drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals because of demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system. No wonder, then that in 1950s Dr William Coda Martin called sugar a poison.

The sugar sudden shock of heavy intake of sugar disrupts the delicate balance that is essential to our body's healthy functioning. The body then mobilizes neutral acids and minerals such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables) and calcium (from the bones) in an attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.

Eating sugar every day, exacerbates the problem producing a continuously over-acid condition, which means that more and more minerals are required from deep in the body to rectify the imbalance.

Ultimately, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin.

Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon.

When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.

When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart end kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat.

The whole body is affected by their reduced ability, and abnormal blood pressure is affected; and organs governed by it,. such as the small brain, become inactive or paralyzed. (normal brain function is rarely thought of as being as biologic as digestion.)

The circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded, and that quality of the red corpuscles start to change. An overabundance's of white cells occurs, and the creation of tissue becomes slower.

Our body's tolerance and impunising power become more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.

Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamate acid, a vital compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamate acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds which produce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain.

B vitamins are also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria, which live in our intestines. When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and our stock of B vitamins gets very low.

Too much sugar makes one sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost. The "quick" energy we feel after eating sugar is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in the mouth or stomach but passes directly to the lower intestines and then to the bloodstream.

The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good. Sugars of all kinds tend to arrest the secretion of gastric juices and have an inhibiting effect on the stomach's natural ability to move.

When taken alone, they pass quickly through the stomach into the small intestine. When sugars are eaten with other foods perhaps meat and bread in a sandwich they are held uo in the stomach for a while.

The sugar in the bread and the Coke sit there with the hamburger and the bun waiting for them to be digested.

While the stomach is working on the animal protein and the refined starch in the bread, the addition of the sugar practically guarantees rapid acid fermentation under the conditions of warmth and moisture existing in the stomach.

When starches and complex sugars (like those honey and fruits) are digested, they are broken down into simple sugars called "monosaccharides", which are usable substances nutriments.

When starches and sugars are taken together and undergo fermentation, they are broken down into carbon dioxide, acetic acid, alcohol and water. With this exception of the water, all these are unusable substances poisons.

When proteins are digested, they are broken down into amino acids, which are usable substances nutriments. When proteins are taken with sugar, they putrefy; they are broken down into a variety of ptomaines and leucomaines, which are non-usable substances - poison.

Enzymic digestion of foods prepare them for use by our body. Bacterial decomposition makes them unfit for use by our body. The first process gives is nutriments; the second gives us poisons.

Unnecessary

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Refined sugar did not exist anywhere in the world until about A.D 500. For hundreds of thousand or millions of years, man did not take sugar and they lived a healthier life without it.

Our ancestors had zero refined sugar intake 15 centuries ago. Today the world consumes hundreds of millions of tonnes of it!

As David Ransom point out in New Internationalist (December 2003), human evolved into roughly our current shape long before sucrose was even invented. If we were now to stop eating it altogether, no one would starve and everyone would be a good deal healthier.

Unsafe

2010-01-30T18:44:00.001-08:00

Sugar is a long term chemical poison and is devastating to our health. Not only is it toxic, it is also addictive. According to an American report, about 95% or people are addicted to it some of degree or other.

Sugar's damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its milk formula. Even mother's milk is contaminated with it if the mother eats sugar.

Due to these, and the fact that it is considered a food and is eaten in such massive quantities, it is believed that sugar does more damage to the body than any other poison, drug or narcotic.

Yet it's the most common poison we willingly use against ourselves!

Sugar: Unhealthy

2010-01-27T15:38:00.000-08:00

The white granulated sugar we add to our foods and drinks is also known as sucrose. Sucrose is a carbohydrate and is made up of 2 simple sugars fructose (which is found naturally in plants, including fruits) and glucose (which the body manufactures itself from healthy, whole foods).

Unlike naturally occurring sucrose, however, sucrose in the form of white granulated sugar has gone through a refining process, which leaves it whith no nutritional value. Stripped of all its nutritional value, refined white sugar is actually an "empty calorie" food. In other words table sugar is dead food.

Sugar is the body's greatest toxic invader. Nothing in the diet promotes disease and aging more than excess sugar.

Sugar is poisonous to the body. There are over 60 ailments that have been associated with sugar consumption in the medical literature. They include cancer, asthma, allergies, diabetes, heart disease, and many more.

In addition, in order for sugar to metabolized in the body, it has to draw from your vitamin and mineral reserves and therefore is responsible for depleting mineral and vitamin levels, which in itself, creates numerous health problems.

Sugar: Unnatural

2010-01-27T04:21:00.000-08:00

Sugar is a basic element found in starchy food. But refined sugar, the white stuff we call "sugar" is not real food. It's man-made poison in sweet disguise.

Refined white sugar is an industrially processed chemical not found in nature, and is not fit for human consumption. It is devoid of nutrients and acts more like a drug tha a food. It's been called "the most dangerous white powder known to man". In fact, it does more damage to human health than any other poison, drug or narcotic.

We call this denatured substance food because we have been trained to like it from birth. We can't imagine eating food or drinks without it because we're addicted to its taste. And we continue to love it and eat it with abandon, and give it to our children all because the sugar pushers, the powerful sugar industry and the giant processed food industry, make us, and keep us, that way.

Big business has a way to ensure that you eat sugar regularly, even if you don' t add it to your food. Sugar lurks often in sickeningly high amounts in may food products, even in those where you would least expect to find it.

Sugar: A Slow Addictive Poison

2010-01-27T02:55:00.000-08:00

From the moment we first tasted lactose (a type of sugar) in milk as infants, humans have acquired a taste for sweetness and learned to regard it as a pleasure. Sugar and sugary food makers took advantage of this human taste tendency and turned sugar into the world's very first mass consumer product. As we grew older, we began to satisfy our sweet liking with this product, sucrose (table sugar), and this becomes habit forming.

As a result, today the refined white substance (sucrose) we usually call "sugar" is here to stay.

In Malaysia, this sugar has become a necessity - it's ranked among other food staples, like rice and cooking oil, and is a price-controlled item. A shortage of sugar is considered a national crisis - consumers, eateries, drinks operators and food producers find themselves in a bind without it - and is newspapers' front page fodder. Such is our dependence on sugar and its control of our lives.

But did you know; Sugar is not meant to be a part of our natural diet. It is alien to human system and is totally unnecessary in our food. Our early ancestors never ate "sugar". Early writers and historians did not have a word for this white substance we now call "sugar". And the ole holy books of the world's leading religious do not even mention it.

Sugar was introduced into the human diet onlly after A.D.500. Since then, every society introduced to refined sugar has been immediately hooked on its delights and unfortunately, also on its ill effects.

This very common everyday product that is falsely believed to be harmless is responsible for many health problems we find in our society today, mainly diabetes (now growing threat worldwide) and even major killers like cancer and heart disease.

Beware the Sugar Trap. Here's the unpalatable truth about sugar, a poison in sweet disguise, the most dangerous white powder known to man and modern mankind's greatest curse.