NLSugarUgly

The Sweet Chronicles: The Ugly, The Bad and The Good -----> THE BAD

So what’s really so bad about sugar? Doesn’t it give us energy? No. not really. Refined white sugar is bad. Period.

“Because refined dietary sugars lack minerals and vitamins, they must draw upon the body’s micro-nutrient stores in order to be metabolized into the system.”4

Refined white sugar is not just empty calories it actually depletes our body of nutrients instead of nourishing us. We become nutritionally bankrupt. Food that is void of nutrition like sugar is bad.

Do not be fooled with the wording “natural” used on refined sugar products. Sugar manufacturers use this type of labeling to make some sort of claim to a healthy nutritious product.

A better term for refined white sugar is un-natural sweetener.

What about artificial sweeteners? It is very important to rethink the whole calorie thing. Calories are important when you look at overall daily intake. But, as far as food in our diet nutritional value is much more important. In fact at the women to women website it is stated that sucralose (splenda) goes largely unrecognized in the body as food – that’s why it has no calories. 2

All types of artificial sweeteners should be avoided. At this point I could go into the harmful effects of these sweeteners. But, if you are under the assumption that the only thing that matters is how many calories or carbohydrates are in it you won’t change your mind.

A good diet is about feeding the body well. There is no nutritional value in any artificial sweetener. Some are under the misguided notion that taking artificial sweeteners will help them lose weight. It is possible to lose weight without artificial sweeteners and without cutting out sweets and desserts altogether. The important thing is to consume only natural healthy sweeteners in a moderate amount. If artificial sweeteners are so bad why aren’t they banned by the FDA? In brief I would say politics and greed. The other reason is that those who haven’t had any problems aren’t concerned about others who have or don’t know the dangerous symptoms artificial sweeteners have caused. These are the ones who continue to buy products with artificial sweeteners believing them to be good for the diet. A common artificial sweetener Aspartame is a toxin that has caused severe neurological problems. The symptoms take years to show up. So, if you currently buy products with (Aspartame) Nutra-Sweet please stop in regards to those who have suffered so much.

Often sweeteners are use to mask the flavor of un-natural and artificial foods. What are we trying to hide? A friend of mine recently commented on how good Thunderttm the chocolate meal replacement drink from ForeverGreen tasted. I told her hat real food tastes good and doesn’t need much sweetening if any. Comparatively the so-called “health” drink Ensure has about 9 times the amount of sugar.

Sally Fallon says this about sugar in book Nourishing Traditions, its sweetness a convenient mask for the flavorless, over-processed concoctions to which it is added.”3

“As the body uses glucose for all its processes, it can be said that sugar is essential to life. But the body does not need to ingest sugar, or even large quantities of carbohydrates to produce it.”3

“The ‘quick’ energy we feel after eating sugar is based on the fact that refined sucrose is not digested in the mouth or the stomach but passes directly to the lower intestines and thence into the bloodstream. The extra speed with which sucrose enters the bloodstream does more harm than good.”5

Remember it is glucose not sucrose that the body uses for all its processes.

Most people consume far more sugar than their bodies can possible use for energy. When this happens, the liver converts the extra sugar into molecules called triglycerides and stores it as fat, or else produces cholesterol from the by-products of sugar and deposits it in veins and arteries. Sugar is thus a major factor in obesity and arteriosclerosis.1

When people have cravings for sugar they are really craving nutrients. So in your quest to bring your sugar in take down to a healthy lever remember to eat nutritionally and well-balanced meals. Also adding a nutritional supplement such as Thunder and Frequensea can be very helpful.

Un-natural refined white sugar and all artificial sweeteners are bad (injurious & harmful) and should be eliminated from our diets.

Counting The Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health…..Continued

Contributed by Nancy Appleton PHD.

Author of the book Lick the Sugar Habit

Sugar can cause appendicitis.1
Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.2
Sugar can cause varicose veins.3
Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.4
Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.5
Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.6,7,8
Sugar can lower your vitamin E levels.9
Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.10
Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.11
High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body.)12
Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.13
Sugar causes food allergies.14
Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.15
Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.16
Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.17,18
Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.19
Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body. 20,21
Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.22
Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.23,24
Sugar can cause emphysema.25
High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.26
Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.27
Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s diseases.28
Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your cells divide and it can increase the amount of your liver fat.29,30
Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.31,32
Sugar can damage your pancreas.33
Sugar can increase your body’s fluid retention.34
Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.35
Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.36

To be continued…

References.

1. Cleave, T. The Saccharine Disease. (New Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing, 1974).

2. Ibid.

3. Cleave, T. and Campbell, G. (Bristol, England:Diabetes, Coronary Thrombosis and the Saccharine Disease: John Wright and Sons, 1960).

4. Behall, K. Influ ence of Estrogen Content of Oral Contraceptives and Consumption of Sucrose on Blood Parameters. Disease Abstracts International. 1982;431437.

5. Tjäderhane, L. and Larmas, M. A High Sucrose Diet Decreases the Mechanical Strength of Bones in Growing Rats. Journal of Nutrition. 1998:128:1807_1810.

6. Beck, Nielsen H., Pedersen O., and Schwartz S. Effects of Diet on the Cellular Insulin Binding and the Insulin Sensitivity in Young Healthy Subjects. Diabetes. 1978;15:289_296 .

7. Sucrose Induces Diabetes in Cat. Federal Protocol. 1974;6(97). diabetes

8. Reiser, S., et al. Effects of Sugars on Indices on Glucose Tolerance in Humans. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1986;43:151-159.

9. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Aug 2000

10. Hodges, R., and Rebello, T. Carbohydrates and Blood Pressure. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1983:98:838_841.

11. Behar, D., et al. Sugar Challenge Testing with Children Considered Behaviorally Sugar Reactive. Nutritional Behavior. 1984;1:277_288.

12. Furth, A. and Harding, J. Why Sugar Is Bad For You. New Scientist. Sep 23, 1989;44.

13. Simmons, J. Is The Sand of Time Sugar? LONGEVITY. June 1990:00:00 49_53.

14. Appleton, N. New York: LICK THE SUGAR HABIT. Avery Penguin Putnam:1988. allergies

15. Cleave, T. The Saccharine Disease: (New Canaan Ct: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1974).131.

16. Ibid. 132

17. Pamplona, R., et al. Mechanisms of Glycation in Atherogenesis. Medical Hypotheses . 1990:00:00 174_181.

18. Vaccaro O., Ruth, K. J. and Stamler J. Relationship of Postload Plasma Glucose to Mortality with 19 yr Follow up. Diabetes Care. Oct 15,1992;10:328_334. Tominaga, M., et al, Impaired Glucose Tolerance Is a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease, but Not Fasting Glucose. Diabetes Care. 1999:2(6):920-924.

19. Lee, A. T. and Cerami, A. Modifications of Proteins and Nucleic Acids by Reducing Sugars: Possible Role in Aging. Handbook of the Biology of Aging. (New York: Academic Press, 1990.).

20. Monnier, V. M. Nonenzymatic Glycosylation, the Maillard Reaction and the Aging Process. Journal of Gerontology 1990:45(4):105_110.

21. Cerami, A., Vlassara, H., and Brownlee, M. Glucose and Aging. Scientific American. May 1987:00:00 90

22. Dyer, D. G., et al. Accumulation of Maillard Reaction Products in Skin Collagen in Diabetes and Aging. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 1993:93(6):421_22.

23. Veromann, S.et al."Dietary Sugar and Salt Represent Real Risk Factors for Cataract Development." Ophthalmologica. 2003 Jul-Aug;217(4):302-307.

24. Goulart, F. S. Are You Sugar Smart? American Fitness. March_April 1991:00:00 34_38. Milwakuee, WI

25. Monnier, V. M. Nonenzymatic Glycosylation, the Maillard Reaction and the Aging Process. Journal of Gerontology. 1990:45(4):105_110.

26. Ceriello, A. Oxidative Stress and Glycemic Regulation. Metabolism. Feb 2000;49(2 Suppl 1):27-29.

27. Appleton, Nancy. New York; Lick the Sugar Habit. Avery Penguin Putnam, 1988 enzymes

28. Hellenbrand, W. Diet and Parkinson's Disease. A Possible Role for the Past Intake of Specific Nutrients. Results from a Self-administered Food-frequency Questionnaire in a Case-control Study. Neurology. Sep 1996;47(3):644-650.

29. Goulart, F. S. Are You Sugar Smart? American Fitness. March_April 1991:00:00 34_38.

30. Ibid.

31. Yudkin, J., Kang, S. and Bruckdorfer, K. Effects of High Dietary Sugar. British Journal of Medicine. Nov 22, 1980;1396.

32. Blacklock, N. J., Sucrose and Idiopathic Renal Stone. Nutrition and Health. 1987;5(1-2):9- Curhan, G., et al. Beverage Use and Risk for Kidney Stones in Women. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1998:28:534-340.

33. Goulart, F. S. Are You Sugar Smart? American Fitness. March_April 1991:00:00 34_38. Milwakuee, WI,:

34. Ibid. fluid retention

35. Ibid. bowel movement

36. Ibid. compromise the lining of the capillaries

References.

1. http://www.hps-onlin.com/foodprof1.htm

2. http://www.womentowomen.com/nutritionalandweightloss/splenda.aspx

3. Nourishing Traditions The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Falon

4. http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sugar.htm

5. http://www.theecologist.org/archive_ detail.asp?conent_id=339