Sugar "The White Death" & " The Legal Cocaine"

Sugar "The White Death" & " The Legal Cocaine" 

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By Thom Underwood, CNC

When processed sugar & junk food are consumed, a massive amount of dopamine is released in an area of the brain called the "nucleus accumbes". When we eat these type of foods in large amounts, dopamine receptors (in the brain) start to down-regulate. Now there are fewer receptors for dopamine. This means that the next time we eat these foods, their effect is blunted. We will need more sugar & junk food next time we eat in order to get the same level of reward. Sugar and other junk foods, due to their powerful effect on the reward centers of the brain, function similarly to drugs of abuse like cocaine and nicotine. Research has proven that the same areas in the brain centers are activated and light when they are consumed. People who have a certain predisposition to addiction become addicted to these foods and lose control over their consumption. This is basically how sugar and other junk foods “hijack” the brain chemistry to make us crave more and eat more. 

Is Sugar Our Friend?

Sugar is not your friend. It may “feel like” your friend when it comforts you (due to the beta- endorphin rush in your brain), but sugar is actually your enemy. The “sugar” has magical powers which cause children to be hyper, irritable, and uptight. This white demon helps to destroy your teeth, kidneys, and pancreas and robs your body of many essential vitamins. Rregular consumption of sugary foods is one of the worst things that you can do to your health. Modern scientific research has shown us, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that sugar in your food (in all its myriad of forms) is taking a devastating toll on your health.

Sugar Addiction & Facts?

Many folks are addicted to sugar and are literally destroying their health. Let’s take a look and see what scientific research is telling us about sugar:

Weight Gain: Eating sugar creates large spikes in blood sugar. Whenever your blood sugar is higher than the current needs of your body, your body will store the extra sugar as fat.

Insulin Insensitivity: Your cells become resistant to insulin when there is constantly too much sugar in your blood stream. Diabetes is a form of insulin insensitivity, and it's completely reversible under a strict sugar-free diet.

Toxic: Sugar is toxic to the blood vessels in the body. In the exact same way that cigarette smoke damages the lungs, sugar in the blood stream damages blood vessels.

Despite these destructive effects on health, sugar consumption has been increasing drastically. Just take a look at the sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:

In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.

In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
In 2012, more than 50% of all Americans consume 1/2 pound of sugar per day — translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!

In 1890, only 3 people out of 100,000 had diabetes. In 2012, diabetes strikes almost 8,000 out of every 100,000 people!

The “sugar rush” has really been targeted at children. American children are consuming about ten times as much sugar as they were in 1900, especially in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is the average American’s largest source of calories! Highly addictive HFCS contains fructose and glucose, but they are not bound together (as they are in table sugar) so your body doesn’t need to break it down. Therefore, the fructose is absorbed immediately, going straight to your liver, which turns it into FAT (VLDL andtriglycerides).

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, “Fructose also tricks the body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism (it turns off the appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the “hunger hormone”) and doesn’t stimulate leptin (the “satiety hormone”), which together result in your eating more and developing insulin resistance.”

Consequences

But just because you avoid HFCS doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear. Excess intake of all processed sugars results in compromised immune function (decreasing the white blood cells’ ability to destroy bacteria), obesity, and diabetes. Remember that sugar is cancer’s favorite food! And since half of the white sugar in the USA comes from sugar beets, you should remember that most beets are now genetically modified. Yet another reason to stay away from the “White Death” isn’t it? 

I personally recommend that you avoid white sugar, brown sugar, agave, and all artificial sweeteners. 

If you have a sweet tooth, it’s best to

stick with stevia, xylitol, raw honey/maple syrup, molasses, and coconut sugar.

Types of Sugars & Sweeteners

It is easy to become confused by the various sugars and sweeteners, so here is a basic overview:

Saccharide = sugar
Glucose (aka “dextrose” or “grape sugar”), galactose (“milk sugar”), and fructose (“fruit sugar”) are all “monosaccharides” (i.e. single sugar molecules), known as “simple sugars.” The primary difference between them is how your body metabolizes them. Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body uses glucose for energy. High amounts of fructose are very damaging to thebody, since if fructose isn’t burned immediately for energy, it travels directly to the liver, where it is converted to triglycerides (fats). Excess triglycerides increase insulin resistance (and insulin production), thus contributing to diabetes in a “back door” fashion. The simple sugars can combine to form more complex sugars, like sucrose (“table sugar”) which is a “disaccharide” comprised of 50% glucose and 50% fructose.

“Refined” white sugar (pure sucrose) is washed with a syrup solution, then with hot water, clarified (usually chemically) to remove impurities, decolorized, concentrated, evap- orated, re-boiled until crystals form, centrifuged again to separate, then dried. By this point, any remnants of “natural goodness” and “nutritional value” have completely disappeared! Quite frankly, white sugar should be considered to be an “industrial product” rather than a “food.”

Aspartame is a neurotoxic rat poison ... need I say more?

HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. Rapadura is the pure juice extracted from the sugar cane (using a press), which is then evaporated over low heats, whilst being stirred with paddles, then sieve ground to produce a grainy sugar. It has not been cooked at highheats, and spun to change it into crystals, and the molasses has not been separated from the sugar. “Sucanat” is the USA trade name forRapadura.

Splenda (sucralose) is NOT a sugar, despite its deceptive marketing slogan, “made from sugar.” It’s a chlorinated artificial sweetener in line with aspartame, though not quite as harmful.

"Brown sugar” is just white sugar mixed with molasses.

“Raw” sugar is not really raw – it has been cooked, and most of the minerals and vitamins are gone. But it’s probably a little better than refined white sugar because it has a little of the molasses remaining.

Honey is approx.- imately 50% fructose, but in natural (raw) form contains many health benefits.

Agave nectar is made from the agave plant, which is a cactus. Sound natural, right? Like maple syrup from a tree, or honey from abeehive. Only it isn’t. Agave is processed and the end product does not even remotely resemble the original agave plant. And agave is approximately 80% fructose (much higher than honey and maple syrup).

Stevia is an extremely sweet herb derived from the leaf of the South American stevia plant, which is completely safe (in its natural form).

Coconut sugar is made from the sweet watery sap that drips from the cut flower buds of fresh coconuts. It has a low glycemic index (GI) and is rich in amino acids. It is typically less than 10% fructose, with sucrose being the primary component.

Xylitol is a sweetener known as a “sugar alcohol” (or polyol). Sugar alcohols are neither sugars nor alcohols – they are carbohydrates (with structures that happen to resemble sugar and alcohol). Xylitol is extracted from birch cellulose. Unlike sugar, Xylitol is slowly absorbed,does not cause a rapid blood sugar increase, and does not require an immediate insulin response from the body to be metabolized. And because Xylitol is anti- bacterial, many studies have shown that it actually helps prevent dental cavities, ear infections, and some evidence suggests that it helps prevent gum disease.

A Heart Disease Connection?

Everyone has heard of hypertension and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), and we’ve all been told by the pharmaceutical companies that this is due to high cholesterol. We are prescribed medications to lower this terrible substance and preserve our lives. But unfortunately, this is not at all factual. The real problem lies in the health of the endothelium (inner lining) of the arterial and venous walls. While it is true that cholesterol will adhere to tears or damage to the endothelial lining, it is not the cause of these lesions. In actuality,insulin causes lesions in the endothelium, so sugar (which causes insulin to be secreted) is the true culprit.

What is insulin? Insulin is a hormone that facilitates the transfer of glucose (blood sugar) from the blood into the cells where it is used as fuel. When blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas secretes insulin into the bloodstream.

The more sugar we consume, the more insulin we secrete. The more insulin we secrete, the more lesions in the endothelium we create. The more lesions we create, the more cholesterol will adhere to these lesions. If we removed all of the cholesterol from our bodies we would lose many things that we require, starting with the brain (which is made of cholesterol), hormones (which are made from cholesterol), and a functioning immune system. Insulin also causes us to store fat, so it is completely logical that obese people have a higher incidence of heart disease. Perhaps if we dealt with medical problems honestly, rather than watching and believing complete fiction (relating to sugar and drugs) on television, we would make true progress in our health.

The bottom line is this:

If you want to be healthy, you must take control of your sugar intake so that it doesn't take control over you. If not IF see a bleak future for you.

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