Sugar is so pervasive in the American diet. I feel it is important to look at this “food”. Sugars rob us of nutrition and Real Energy. We have cakes at weddings and birthdays. We celebrate holidays with festive treats.

Somehow we know that something sweet n and of itself is not a bad thing, then how and when does it become ugly.

Like frogs in a pot that is slowly being brought to a boil; our sugar intake has increased to a deadly and destructive amount. Many have eaten all the sweets they’ve wanted to for years without any warnings. Well, yes they’ve gained weight and perhaps they’re not as energetic as they used to be. But, they blame that on getting older. Then they find out that they have diabetes and can now only ingest a limited amount of sugar.

One reason for this is that when too much sugar is ingested the body becomes acidic. We are closer to death and disease when our bodies are acidic.

A healthy pH balance is 7.4 which is slightly alkaline. Some researchers say that death occurs when the pH is above 7.8 or below 6.8. It is crucial for the body t o maintain a proper pH. The body uses more minerals in our body to bring it into the proper balance. If this continues calcium is taken from teeth and bones. This is what really causes tooth decay.

Dr. Weston Price observed through his studies the eating habits of cultures around the world. He discovered that those who ate a diet of natural and unrefined food had excellent teeth and good health. But, when refined food including refined white sugar was introduced into their diet unhealthy changes were seen within a single generation.1

The doctors of orthomolecular psychiatry, Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin and Dr. Linus Pauling believe that diet and nutrition are effective in treating mental illness. Sugar depletes the body of nutrients. Empty calories draw on the body’s reserves to be broken down.3

Refined white sugar had a negative nutritive value.

William Dufty also claims in his book Sugar Blues that it is the possible cause of these mental ailments: schizophrenia, paranoia, catonia, dementia praecox, neuroses, psychoses, etc. Doctors Pauling and Hoffer address the reason for this.

Dr. Pauling writes, “The function of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions that 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, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances…Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often be far from the best”1

Dr. Abram Hoffer notes, “Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods.”1

Eating something sweet when having a low blood sugar can cause the harmful process glycation which is the “bonding of amino acids to sugar molecules when blood sugar-levels are too high. These abnormal proteins are then incorporated into the tissues and can do enormous damage…”3

“Furthermore, refined white sugar is treated as a toxic foreign agent by the immune system, owing to its unnatural chemical structure as well as the industrial contaminants it retains from the refining process.”2

“Most people consume far more sugar than their bodies can possibly 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 as well.”2

Although it is possible to make and market sugar that is not stripped of its nutrients. Major sugar manufacturers continue to make unhealthy refined white sugar and promote it and sell it. It is very easy to become addicted to sugar. Sugar sells.

In 1821 sugar consumption was an average of 10 pounds per year per person (1/2 oz per day)

Today it has increased to an average of 170 pounds per year per person or ½ pound per day or 2 cups of sugar per day. The sugar manufacturers have done very well.

The ugly thing about sugar is that in the right amount and the right kind it is good, but we have not learned or have ignored the warning signs when it has become toxic for us and then it may be too late.

Many of us have become like that frog who can no longer jump to safety.

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Counting The Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health

1.     Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.^1,2

2.     Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium. ^3,4,5,6

3.     Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.^7,8

4.     Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.^9,10,11,12

5.     Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.¹³

6.     Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.^{14,15,16,17,18,19,20}

7.     Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.^21,22

8.     Sugar can weaken eyesight.²³

9.     Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.^{24,25,26,27,28}

10.  Sugar can cause premature aging.²⁹

11.  Sugar can lead to alcoholism.³⁰

12.  Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.^31,32,33

13.  Sugar contributes to obesity.³⁴

14.  Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.^35,36,37

15.  Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).³⁸

16.  Sugar can cause gallstones.³⁹

17.  Sugar can cause appendicitis.⁴⁰

References

1.     Sanchez, A., et al. Role of Sugars in Human Neutrophilic Phagocytosis, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Nov 1973;261:1180_1184. Bernstein, J., al. Depression of Lymphocyte Transformation Following Oral Glucose Ingestion. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.1997;30:613

2.     Ringsdorf, W., Cheraskin, E. and Ramsay R. Sucrose, Neutrophilic Phagocytosis and Resistance to Disease, Dental Survey. 1976;52(12):46_48.

3.     Couzy, F., et al. "Nutritional Implications of the Interaction Minerals," Progressive Food and Nutrition Science 17;1933:65-87

4.     Kozlovsky, A., et al. Effects of Diets High in Simple Sugars on Urinary Chromium Losses. Metabolism. June 1986;35:515_518.

5.     Fields, M.., et al. Effect of Copper Deficiency on Metabolism and Mortality in Rats Fed Sucrose or Starch Diets, Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1983;113:1335_1345.

6.     Lemann, J. Evidence that Glucose Ingestion Inhibits Net Renal Tubular Reabsorption of Calcium and Magnesium. Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1976 ;70:236_245.

7.     Goldman, J., et al. Behavioral Effects of Sucrose on Preschool Children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.1986;14(4):565_577.

8.     Jones, T. W., et al. Enhanced Adrenomedullary Response and Increased Susceptibility to Neuroglygopenia: Mechanisms Underlying the Adverse Effect of Sugar Ingestion in Children. Journal of Pediatrics. Feb 1995;126:171-7.

9.     Scanto, S. and Yudkin, J. The Effect of Dietary Sucrose on Blood Lipids, Serum Insulin, Platelet Adhesiveness and Body Weight in Human Volunteers, Postgraduate Medicine Journal. 1969;45:602_607.

10.  Albrink, M. and Ullrich I. H. Interaction of Dietary Sucrose and Fiber on Serum Lipids in Healthy Young Men Fed High Carbohydrate Diets. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1986;43:419-428. Pamplona, R., et al. Mechanisms of Glycation in Atherogenesis. Med Hypotheses. Mar 1993;40(3):174-81.

11.  Reiser, S. Effects of Dietary Sugars on Metabolic Risk Factors Associated with Heart Disease. Nutritional Health. 1985;203_216.

12.  Lewis, G. F. and Steiner, G. Acute Effects of Insulin in the Control of Vldl Production in Humans. Implications for The insulin-resistant State. Diabetes Care. 1996 Apr;19(4):390-3 R. Pamplona, M. .J., et al. Mechanisms of Glycation in Atherogenesis. Medical Hypotheses. 1990;40:174-181.

13.  Cerami, A., Vlassara, H., and Brownlee, M. "Glucose and Aging." Scientific American. May 1987:90. Lee, A. T. and Cerami, A. The Role of Glycation in Aging. Annals of the New York Academy of Science; 663:63-67.

14.  Takahashi, E., Tohoku University School of Medicine, Wholistic Health Digest. October 1982:41:00

15.  Quillin, Patrick, Cancer's Sweet Tooth, Nutrition Science News. Ap 2000 Rothkopf, M.. Nutrition. July/Aug 1990;6(4).

16.  Michaud, D. Dietary Sugar, Glycemic Load, and Pancreatic Cancer Risk in a Prospective Study. J Natl Cancer Inst. Sep 4, 2002 ;94(17):1293-300.

17.  Moerman, C. J., et al. Dietary Sugar Intake in the Etiology of Biliary Tract Cancer. International Journal of Epidemiology. Ap 1993.2(2):207-214.

18.  The Edell Health Letter. Sept 1991;7:1.

19.  De Stefani, E."Dietary Sugar and Lung Cancer: a Case control Study in Uruguay." Nutrition and Cancer. 1998;31(2):132_7.

20.  Cornee, J., et al. A Case-control Study of Gastric Cancer and Nutritional Factors in Marseille, France. European Journal of Epidemiology 11 (1995):55-65.

21.  Kelsay, J., et al. Diets High in Glucose or Sucrose and Young Women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1974;27:926_936. Thomas, B. J., et al. Relation of Habitual Diet to Fasting Plasma Insulin Concentration and the Insulin Response to Oral Glucose, Human Nutrition Clinical Nutrition. 1983; 36C(1):49_51.

22.  Dufty, William. Sugar Blues. (New York:Warner Books, 1975).

23.  Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica. Mar 2002;48;25. Taub, H. Ed. Sugar Weakens Eyesight, VM NEWSLETTER;May 1986:06:00

24.  Dufty.

25.  Yudkin, J. Sweet and Dangerous.(New York:Bantam Books,1974) 129

26.  Cornee, J., et al. A Case-control Study of Gastric Cancer and Nutritional Factors in Marseille, France, European Journal of Epidemiology. 1995;11

27.  Persson P. G., Ahlbom, A., and Hellers, G. Epidemiology. 1992;3:47-52.

28.  Jones, T. W., et al. Enhanced Adrenomedullary Response and Increased Susceptibility to Neuroglygopenia: Mechanisms Underlying the Adverse Effect of Sugar Ingestion in Children. Journal of Pediatrics. Feb 1995;126:171-7.

29.  Lee, A. T.and Cerami A. The Role of Glycation in Aging. Annals of the New York Academy of Science.1992;663:63-70.

30.  Abrahamson, E. and Peget, A. Body, Mind and Sugar. (New York: Avon, 1977.}

31.  Glinsmann, W., Irausquin, H., and Youngmee, K. Evaluation of Health Aspects of Sugar Contained in Carbohydrate Sweeteners. F. D. A. Report of Sugars Task Force. 1986:39:00 Makinen K.K.,et al. A Descriptive Report of the Effects of a 16_month Xylitol Chewing_gum Programme Subsequent to a 40_month Sucrose Gum Programme. Caries Research. 1998; 32(2)107_12.

32.  Glinsmann, W., Irausquin, H., and K. Youngmee. Evaluation of Health Aspects of Sugar Contained in Carbohydrate Sweeteners. F. D. A. Report of Sugars Task Force.1986;39:36_38.

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34.  Keen, H., et al. Nutrient Intake, Adiposity, and Diabetes. British Medical Journal. 1989; 1:00 655_658

35.  Darlington, L., Ramsey, N. W. and Mansfield, J. R. Placebo Controlled, Blind Study of Dietary Manipulation Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lancet. Feb 1986;8475(1):236_238.

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