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SUGAR-SWEET BLUES
THE MARK OF CANE“If you look for sweetness, Your search will be endless; You will never be satisfied: But if
you seek the true taste You will find what you are looking for.” Buddhist axiom Like opium, morphine, cocaine and
heroin, sugar is an addictive, destructive drug, yet North Americans consume it
daily in everything from cigarettes to bread. If you are overweight, of suffer
from migraine, hypoglycemia, acne, frequent colds and flu, PMS, painful
menstruation, mood swings, irritability, poor memory, the plague of the “sugar
blues” has hit you! In fact, by accepted diagnostic standards, our
entire society is pre-diabetic! What specific health problems does refined
sugar cause? Diabetes, tooth decay, obesity, coronary thrombosis, gum
disease, varicose veins, stomach trouble, mental disturbances, and indirectly,
many forms of mental illness! How does refined sugar work such havoc in the
finely tuned human system that it results in disease of every kind? When God made our foodstuffs, He saw to it
that they were balanced for our needs—that is, they naturally contain the
vitamins, minerals, and catalysts for them to be used by the body. When
man refines either sugar, flour, or rice, the resulting product is lacking in
the necessary elements needed to digest and utilize the food in the body. Think of it this way—If you earn $10. a
day and you spend $11. It does not take a genius to figure out that
soon you are going to be badly in debt. So with our food—If I have a whole
grain—I am OK—I have what I need in the grain to digest it—But the minute I
add sugar to it—even a little—I have more calories and they do not contain any
elements to digest them. The grain has the elements but it just has enough for
itself—the sugar has to leech elements from your body stores to be utilized—Results: imbalances, clogging, and eventually bankruptcy in the body.
Disease is the end result of such imbalance. Dr. William Coda 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 use 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 carbohydrates in that
particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates.
Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of “toxic
metabolites” such as Pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing 5 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 enough oxygen to survive and
function normally. In time some of the cells die. (Note: it is also
significant that cells with insufficient oxygen become cancerous) This
interferes with the function of a part of the body and is the beginning of
degenerative disease. With over 50% of our diet today composed of these
refined carbohydrates [refined sugar, white flour, white rice, macaroni and most
breakfast cereals], does it require a million dollars for research to find out
why this generation is developing more and more degenerative diseases?” Did you know that you can live a long while on
water alone—but if you use water with sugar added to it, you will sicken and
die rapidly? This has been proven by experiments on animals and accounts
of shipwreck victims. How does sugar affect your mental and
emotional state—well to simplify the process—basically it works like this—You
eat sugary foods, as the sugar pours into your blood stream it upsets your blood
sugar balance—at first you feel invigorated—full of energy—but the body must
bring down that excess sugar in the blood back to normal so the adrenal glands,
the pancreas and various control systems spring into action, insulin is released
among other things and as with something that goes fast it goes too far and your
blood drops below normal you feel weak, sweaty, tired, irritable and run off for
more stimulant or sweet food to start the process again. Now the key thing here is that the brain can
use only glucose—blood-sugar for fuel—nothing else can penetrate the
blood-brain barrier—so when the sugar drops in reaction to the body trying to
combat dangerous imbalance of blood-sugar, the brain begins to starve and
short-out as it were. In a starving brain, emotions and thought processes
will be deranged and confusion will occur. Many quarrels and no doubt many divorces
are due to hypoglycemia. (Low blood sugar) It is a good chance that many
car accidents are also caused this way! The disease-establishment and the sugar
pushers like to group refined sugar, flour and such as a carbohydrate, the same
as the whole grains and whole foods—and the worse they are likely to tell you
is that it is an empty calorie—That doesn’t sound bad in itself—the fact is,
that empty calorie is a thief—it will steal from your body minerals such as
calcium, and many other elements—it will slow down and clog your whole system,
weaken it and open the door to infection and decay.( throw it in your gas tank
and see what happens!) Don’t be fooled by some so called health
authorities who tell you that refined sugar is no different to the body than
naturally sweet fruits—this is not so. Fruits in their natural state contain
the elements needed for your body to process them and as such are not harmful.
There are cases where people whose bodies are so badly sugar damaged may have to
use moderation in the use of extremely sweet fruits such as dates and bananas
but these foods do not affect the body like refined sugar. Fruit juices,
even when not sugared, can cause hypoglycemic reactions in sugar-damaged folk
and should be diluted at least half and half with water. A word about brown sugar—It is no different
than white except they have added a bit of molasses back into the refined white
stuff. Don’t be fooled. What about honey—Make sure you get pure
untreated, un-messed with honey and it can be used moderately in place of sugar
but some commercial honey contains sucrose (refined sugar). In the 1800s sugar use per capita was only a
fraction of what it is now—Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of
the living machine. The free use of sugar in any form tends to clog the system,
and is not infrequently a cause of disease.” Now people consume mountains of the
stuff right from birth—with babies sucking sugared formulas from bottles, they
are addicts from infancy. Anyone, whose body workings are damaged by
sugar, must avoid it, if he would attain his optimal health. Don’t believe you could be addicted to the
white stuff? After all, you don’t use excess sugar right? (I have yet to
meet anyone who would admit he uses excess anything—even a drunk ‘only had a
little drink’)—I challenge you—eliminate all sugar and anything containing sugar
from your diet for a few days—If you are like most people—even so called
‘health nuts’—you will find it is easier said than done—you find yourself
craving all kinds of sugared ‘goodies’. You will also be surprised as to just how much
of our daily food contains sugar—either openly or hidden. Read labels and
you will find it in almost every supermarket creation—breads, canned
vegetables, package and canned soups, canned beans, cereals, spaghetti sauces,
ketchup, salad dressing,—You can be sugar bingeing and not even know it! Kicking the sugar habit isn’t going to be
easy—no addiction ever is—but it can be lots of fun. If you live alone,
kicking cold turkey is probably the best way to go. Collect everything in
your abode that has sugar in it; throw it in the garbage and start over.
This way if you yen to start bingeing, you haven’t made it easy for yourself. You can make one decision at the store instead
of fighting temptation full time at home. It may take a month or so to change
the way you shop, cook and entertain. The details of your daily struggle
are not important but the general direction in which you are headed is vital. If you have small children, watch their
behavior carefully for a few days—record it—are they cranky when awakening,
moody, irritable? Next eliminate everything from their diet containing refined
sugar—observe the changes—in ten days you won’t believe you have the same
child! You will never want to see them back on sugar! Sugar-free babies
seem to be a different breed altogether from the average, sugar-glutted
children. (include nutri-sweet, aspartame and caffeine drinks like cola in your
elimination process. These things would turn a little angel into a demon!) With older children and family members, you
will need to try and enlist their co-operation—make it a family project. Be
patient but persistent—you will never
regret breaking free from the Sugar Blues! (thanx to William Dufty) For a real eye opening look at the history of
the sugar business and its legacy of disease, death, and insanity as seen in
each country’s deterioration as sugar came into use—get William Dufty’s
book—“Sugar Blues” Ev’rybody’s singing the Sugar Blues... I’m so unhappy, I feel so bad I could lay me down and die. You can say what you choose But I’m all confused I’ve got the sweet, sweet Sugar Blues More Sugar!! I’ve got the sweet, sweet Sugar Blues. song- written in 1923 HYPOGLYCEMIA & YOUR FAMILYMost North-Americans are suffering from
hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, which is the forerunner of hyperglycemia, high
blood sugar, or diabetes. What causes it? Empty calories.
What is an empty calorie? An empty calorie is a food that has that has no
vitamins, minerals, or enzymes. It is a food totally without nutrients
except calories. Sugar, white flour, white rice, sugared cereals, and
alcohol are all empty calories. What is the process by which empty calories
cause hypoglycemia? The answer is that all carbohydrate foods, properly
digested, become sugars. When you eat white flour, it becomes white sugar,
when you eat white rice, it metabolizes into white sugar. In order for
these carbohydrates to be used for energy, it is necessary to have B-complex
vitamins and certain minerals. Since the empty calories don’t have these
nutrients to properly metabolize these foods and release the sugar gradually
into the blood stream, instead, the refines sugars move rapidly into the blood
stream and your blood sugar level shoots up right after eating refined, sugary
foods. The Islands of Langerhans, in your pancreas become over stimulated.
These secrete excess insulin to burn up this sudden rise in sugar. This
excess insulin not only burns up the extra sugar but some of your own necessary
sugar as well. Your brain lives solely on glucose and when it
does not receive enough it is starved- when the brain is starving, any part of
your nervous system can be affected. There is something else that causes
hypoglycemia- Caffeine and Theobromine also Aspartame. These are
found in cocoa, chocolate, coffee, tea and cola drinks. This false
stimulant action gives you a feeling of energy, but all it does is whip up your
adrenals, force stored blood sugar into the blood, and then comes the excess
insulin, and the drop to hypoglycemia and you are running for another
coffee, another candy bar, or another coke to get you up and running again.
It is an endless yo-yo, and it is the way most people are living today. Trying to solve the problem by using diet
drinks? It won’t work! Aspartame (Nutri-sweet) metabolizes to a harmful type
of alcohol—bad for the brain and liver. Also when sweet taste comes onto the
tongue, the body prepares to receive sugar by releasing insulin. When there is
no sugar to require this insulin—blood glucose levels drop, resulting in
hypoglycemia, hunger and excess eating to compensate. So if you are trying
to reduce by using diet drinks and aspartame—you are sabotaging your program
from the start! Hypoglycemia causes shakiness, weakness,
tired feeling, IRRITABILITY! (Yes, much of this PMS thing is really
hypoglycemia) It can lead to mental illness, neuro-muscular diseases,
allergies, low memory, hyperactive children, and marital unhappiness because of
the moodiness and grouchiness it causes. One of the most obvious symptoms that we are a
hypoglycemic nation, is the institution of the coffee break! In
pioneer days, people would get up, eat a hearty breakfast and go to do heavy
work all day, arriving home in the evening for their supper. Sometimes
they may have had lunch but certainly not coffee breaks. What is happening is this, We grab a sweet
roll and a cup of coffee for breakfast and race to work—in almost exactly 2
hours, our blood sugar has shot up, and then dropped to bottom as the surge of
insulin does its work. We feel hungry, we are shaky, weak, irritable—we
have to have another coffee and doughnut—then we are up again, two hours later,
another drop, more coffee, more empty calories—so goes our day! Our children are now in the same boat
with breaks for milk and cookies. Children come home with bad grades and reports
of unruly behavior. Mother says, “If you don't straighten up,
I am going to tell Dad to punish you!” Here the child is punished
when it isn’t his fault but the fault of the parents who feed him the junk!
When you feed empty calories to your child, you cannot expect him to have a
brain that can operate properly. The big question is—How do you get rid of
Hypoglycemia? The answer is that you must reverse the process. In
other words it was the lack of Vitamins and minerals in the diet that caused it;
so we reverse the process, by giving high doses of the vitamins and
minerals until the body can recover itself, and avoiding the empty
calories and chemicals that caused the problem.
The old medical books show the normal
fasting blood sugar after a 14 hour fast should be 80-120 milligrams of glucose
per 100 c.c.s of blood—Now many medical texts have lowered this to 65! Why?
Because the vast majority are suffering from hypoglycemia, the medical labs have
adjusted the “normal” blood sugar levels to reflect the common—it is now
normal to be abnormal! Glucose tolerance tests are not necessary to
ascertain hypoglycemia—do 1 blood test after 14 hours fasting and another 1
hour after lunch—If the first one is less than 80 and the second less than
120, you have a problem even though doctors will tell you you’re normal.
If you know a diabetic friend who has a glucometer machine for measuring blood
sugar, ask if they would test yours for you. Even without a test, if you get shaky or
irritable 2 hours or less after you eat—you are hypoglycemic. Some of the symptoms brought on by
hypoglycemia are: Nervousness, Nervous breakdown, schizophrenia, melancholy,
crying without cause, insomnia, fearfulness and paranoia, hay fever,
Parkinson’s, migraines, allergies, asthma, some forms of seizures, moodiness
and confusion. You cannot starve your brain and expect it to work well. Lets look at hyperactive children. One
mother had 3 sons, the first two were hyperactive but the 3rd was OK. On looking
into this case the doctor found she had nursed the last boy but not the first
two. For the first two she did not seem to have enough milk—then she
changed doctors and was told to drink at least 8-10 glasses of water a day so as
to make milk and she had no problem. The first boys were raised on formula
with sugar in it and they developed hypoglycemia as infants and were still
suffering from it. Once onto the natural, whole food diet and
supplementation, they soon were problem free. If you have children, please don’t feed them
on the sugared cereals, Kool-pop, chips, cheezies and trash! These are bad
for all of us, but worse for children. When you see totally sugar-free babies or
toddlers you wouldn’t believe the difference. Feed Whole foods for Whole
children! BASIC RECOVERY PROGRAM
NO! NO! NO! Sugar, White flour, White rice, Sugared
cereals, Alcohol, Cocoa, Chocolate, Caffeine, Tea (except herbal), Coffee, cola, Aspartame,
Soft Drinks. Read labels and eat nothing that contains the
above. 1- exercise 1/2 hour daily. 2- Sleep 9 hours every night. 3. Eat less meat and animal products
until you can do without. 4. Increase fiber in your diet. 5. Drink 2 glasses of water 1 hour before your
meal and 1 glass 2 hours after. 6. No fried foods, fat, margarine or grease. 7. No junk-foods. 8. Get some sun each day. 9. Take a good natural source stress
formula 1-2 times daily with meals and a multi-mineral. For children modify it in proportion to
their size. This will need to be followed for around a
year until all hypoglycemia symptoms are gone then you can gradually lower the
doses until you are taking 1 multi-vitamin-mineral and 1 super B complex with C
a day. After a few months on this, if you stick faithfully to the basic program,
you can faze these out. If symptoms return—check your basic program for
where you are slipping and start the 2 last supplements again. This is one of the conditions that is very
hard to recover from without supplementation because the bodies supplies
are so over-drawn. 'DIET' PRODUCTS ARE OUT!If it says "SUGAR FREE" on
the label DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!
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