Šodien  (HFCS) ir iecienītākais saldinātājs lielākajā daļā bezalkoholisko dzērienu un pārtikas produktu izgatavošanā.Palasiet uz iepakojuma.1997,g. vispasaules  HFCS produkcija pārsniedza 8 miljardus kilogramu (Freeston)

Atceries, dabīgā fruktoze ir  dabīga vairuma augļu un dārzeņu sastāvdaļa. Tā ir dabiska pārtika. Ķermenis,  var viegli sagremot samērīgu  daudzumu dabīgās fruktozes bez minerālu uzkrājuma izmantošanas.Dabīgā fruktoze neizraisa cukura karuseli asinīs, ja nepārdozē. No dabīgā cukura neveidojas atkarība.

Paaugstinātās fruktozes kukurūzas sīrups, tieši pretēji, nevar tikt viegli pārstrādāts, īstenībā tas nomāc  gremošanu, ir rada atkarību un izraisa virkni bioķīmisku kļūdu, kā mēs to vēlāk redzēsim.  HFCS ir neīsts; Neēdams.

Šajā rakstā cukurs nozīmē rafinēts, sintētisks biešu  un niedru cukurs  kā arī HFCS. Fizisku kaitējumu šie visi nodara diezgan līdzīgi. Vēlāk par to sīkāk.

KAS IR OGĻHIDRĀTI?

Visiem ir zināms, ka pārtika pastāv trijās formās: tauki, proteīns un ogļhidrāti. Vairums pārtikas dažādās proporcijās satur visas trīs formas.

Ogļhidrāti sastāv oglekļa, ūdeņraža skābekļa. Pamata ogļhidrāti ir cukurs, ciete un celuloze. (Dorland, p121)

Cukuri ir saldie ogļhidrāti-vienas vai divu molekulu savienojumi:monosaharīdi vai disaharadīdi.

Cietes ir pamata ogļhidrātu uzglabāšanas forma augos. Cietes ir polisaharīdi, kas nozīmē vairāk kā divu ogļhidrātu molekulu sasaiste. Cietes šķeļas veidojot cukurus-tieši tādēļ paturot kādu brīdi mutē krekeri tas kļūst salds.Celuloze sastāv no garām ogļhidrātu  šķiedru saitēm, pamatā lai nodrošinātu auga struktūru. Tieši celuloze apgādā mūs ar  šķiedrvielām mūsu pārtikā.

Augos pārsvarā ir cukuri, dārzeņos savukārt cietes. Un abos protams ir celuloze.

SAREŽĢĪTS PRET VIENKĀRŠU

Ābolā ir dabīgs cukurs: fruktoze. Kartupelī ir dabīga ciete. Taču šie ir pilnīgi ēdamie, kuŗos ir daudz kas vairāk ka vienkārši nošķiriti ogļhidrāti. Āboli un kartupeļi,kas izaudzēti labā augsnē satur arī vitamīnus, minerālus, enzīmus. Šādi ēdamie ir kompleksie ogļhidrāti, kas nozīmē, ka tie ir pilnīgi ēdamie.

Problēma rodas ar pārstrādātu cukuru un cieti. Baltajam galda cukuram nav barības vielu. Baltmaize ir apstrādāta, mākslīga ciete.Tie nav ēdieni-viņi neapgādā ķermeni ar barības vielām. Mēs tos saucam par vienkāršajiem ogļhidrātiem.Pat ja tie sašķeļas līdz atsevišķai glikozes molekulai-tas tik un tā ir pilnīgi cits glikozes galaprodukts nekā, piemēram, apēdot ābolu. Tas tāpēc ,ka ābols vienkārši nesašķeļas atsevišķās glikozes molekulās. Citas barības vielas un faktori piedalās gremošanas procesā, kas ir nepieciešami lai ķermenis varētu vispilnīgāk izmantot glikozi: enzīmi, minerāli un vitamīni.

Baltajam cukuram un maizei ir nepieciešami enzīmi, vitamīni, minerāli un insulīns no ķermeņa, lai kaut kā darbotos. Un notiekošā darbība ir kairinājums, izvadīšana un aizsardzība nevis barošanās.

Visi enzīmi un barības vielas ir tikušas apzināti izņemtas no baltā cukura un miltiem apstrādes rezultātā. Rezultātā mums ir sintētiski, cilvēku izgatavoti ogļhidrāti, kādu dabā nav.Ķermenis pret šādām vielām izturas kā pret svešķermeni, kā narkotiku.

Citādi uz to paraudzīties šādi: Salikto ogļhidrātu šķelšanas rezultāts ir noderīga glikozes molekula. Vienkāršie(rafinētie) ogļhidrāti savukārt zarnu traktā sāk  rūgt , jo nav sagremojami. Rezultāts ir alkohols, etiķskābe, ūdens un oglekļa dioksīds.  (Dufty  183.lpp)

Izņemot ūdeni nemaz ne tik  noderīgas lietas..

Papildus šiem blakusproduktiem, vienkāršie ogļhidrāti nekontrolējami un nedabiski palielina  glikozes līmeni asinīs. Un tā ir rafinētā cukura patiesa problēma-pēkšņs, straujš liela daudzuma glikozes pieplūdums.

Lielākā daļa grāmatu, ārstu un diētalogu pamanās neievērot šo vienkāršo atšķirību starp vienkāršajiem un saliktajiem ogļhidrātiem.Viņi runā par āboliem un kolu kā par ogļhidrātiem, jo raugi abi gala rezultātā sašķeļas līdz glikozei, ķermenim nepieciešamajai formai.Tā ir tipveida medicīnas pieeja. Tā pati mentalitāte, kas uzskata, ka askorbīnskābe ir C vitamīns(par to atsevišķs raksts).Tā pati mentalitāte, kas uzstāj, ka piens ir labs proteīna vai kalcija avots.(Arī par to ir nepieciešams raksts-īsumā, jebkuŗš pasterizēta piena produkts kļūst ne tik vien nevērtīgs ķermenim, bet pat kaitīgs). Milzums informācijas, ļoti maz izpratnes.Tāda tipa diētalogi jauc organisko dārzniecību ar organisko ķīmiju.Vai "veselīgas pārtikas" mentalitāte, kas cilvēkiem nākamajā dienā pēc izoperēta kuņģa operācijas aicina pacientus uzēst kartupeļu biezeni ar mērci un cukurotu limonādi no bundžiņas, tā teikt , "spēku atgūšanai".

Lielākā daļa diētalogu ir mācīti domāt, ka diabēts ir ģenētisks un tādējādi var tikt kontrolēts ar zālēm.

Kā jebkurā citā veselības jomā, lielais vairums no publikācijām ir nepamatota spekulācija. Jo sliktāk, ja tie ir autoritatīvi darbi. Nemaz  negribas sākt apspriest.

Ar cukuru ir apēst nenozīmē sagremot: tas ka jūs  to esat apēduši nenozīmē, ka tas tiks izmantots. Tieši tāpēc kaloriju skaitīšana, ēdienu kombinēšana, asinsgrupai pielāgotas pārtikas meklēšana un visādas citādas aizejoši untumi ir nesvarīgi:nav svarīgi ko jūs ēdat; svarīgi ir ko ķermenis var pārstrādāt.

Ja jūs pārlasīsiet pēdējās trīs sadaļas, jūs visdrīzāk zināsiet par cukuru vairāk nekā 90% veselības aprūpes profu.Tas kļūs acīmredzams, kad mēs nokļūsim līdz diabētam.

ĪSVĒSTURE

 Viljama Daftija( William Dufty) "Cukura blūzs" bija 70to vidus klasika.Neatvairāmā, neformālā veidā, grāmata sniedz plašu cukura ekonomikas vēsturisko un politisko ieskicējumu sākot ar 15. gadsimtu līdz pat mūsdienām. Daftijs izmanto pamatīgas atsauces pamata datiem, tostarp arī par tirdzniecības impērijām, kas izveidojās ap cukuru:sīrupa, ruma un vergu. Cukura nodokļi vien padarīja bagātus Anglijas, Francijas, Spānijas un Holandes valdniekus, līdz ar vergu tirgoņiem, pārvadātājiem un plantāciju īpašniekiem. ( 33.lpp.) Daudzu mūsdienās pazīstamo bagātnieku naudasmaisi sāka pildīties jau tolaik.

Dafijs velk interesantas paralēles starp opiju un cukuru, jo abas ir lietas ,kas mums nav vajadzīgas, abas kļuva par milzīgu ienākumu un nodokļu avotiem, abiem ir tumša vēsture pilna ar neaptveramām cilvēku ciešanām un abas pēc ilga atkarības perioda var izraisīt fizisku deģenerāciju un nāvi.

RAFINĒT SĀKA VĒLĀK

Pirmajos cukur industrijas gados, cukurniedres tika pārvērstas sīrupā un rumā, lai varētu pārvest pāri okeāniem. Cukurs pats vēl bija jēls:viegli brūnā krāsā un vēl aizvien tam piemita daļa no sākotnējās uzturvērtības. Dabīgais cukurs neizraisa diabētu; ja jūs ēdat par daudz dabiskā medus, jums vienkārši paliek slikta dūša.

Cukurniedru rafinēšana attīstījās pakāpeniski un īsā laikā izplatījās visur pasaulē.Rafinēšana sākās ar vecajām akmens dzirnavām ko darbināja ūdens vai vējš, kur graudi tika samalti miltos.Laikam ejot mašinērija ārējo graudu čauliņu lobīšanai uzlabojās, un viss kas palika bija balts iekšējais vienkāršais ogļhidrāts bez minerāliem un vitamīniem. Tieši tāpat kā ar cukurniedrēm un bietēm. Pārstrādes metodes, kas atņēma visus vitamīnus, minerālus un enzīmus kļuva tik labas radot viendabīgus baltus kristālus, ka cukura cena  ļoti pazeminājās it visur pasaulē.

Un cukura patēriņš pasaulē tikai turpināja pieaugt. Kas reiz bija tikai bagāto delikatese kļuva par pamata preci visiem.Lielākā daļa informācijas avotu lēš, ka 20 % no vidusmēra amerikāņa diētas kalorijām ir cukurs.Vienkārši iedomājieties, ka  caurmērā 20% no visa tā ko amerikāņi ēd nav nekādas barības vērtības.( Nevietā būtu piezīme, ka amerikāņi ir stulbi un rij, ko pagadās.Tā ir industrija, kas lieliem soļiem ir ielāčojusi arī Latvijā, tāpēc domāt ,ka mums tas nedraud ir, maigi izsakoties, muļķīgi) Vēl jo sliktāk, tāda pārtika ir fiziski destruktīva, kā mēs to vēlāk arī redzēsim.

Daftijs kārtu pēc kārtas atklāj un pierāda, ka mūsdienu cilvēce deģenerējas kā rase, kļūstot arvien slimāka un vārgāka no desmitgades uz desmitgadi.Protams nekas 20 gados pēc "Cukura Blūza" iznākšanas nevar apstrīdēt šādu apgalvojumu: palūkojieties sev apkārt. Šķiet puse no mūsu skolasbērniem ir vai nu Ritalīna, inhalātora, vai kaut kāda veida pretalerģijas preparāta. Palūkojieties uz deģeneratīvo slimību pieaugumu.

Vairāk zinātniskā darbā DR.Vestons Praiss( Weston Price) nonāca pie tāda paša secinājuma  žurnālā "Pārtika un Fiziskā deģenerācija.  Dr. Prais 30tajos gados ceļoja apkārt pasaulei pētot dažādu iedzimto, primitīvo tautu zobus un galvaskausus;kādus tik varēja atrast-amerikāņu indiāņus, Šveices Alpu cieminiekus, eskimosus, aborigēnus, skotu primitīvos, Fidžī salu iedzīvotājus un citus.

Praisa  secinajumi nav apstrīdami-no reizes uz reizi, kad cilvēki tika pakļauti rietumu pārtikai-baltajam cukuram un baltajiem miltiem-dažu gadu laikā zobu puve, tuberkaoloze un artrīts, sasniedza "civilizēto" nāciju apjomus.Praiss atklāja, ka kamēr cilvēku grupa palika izolēta un ēda ar savu"primitīvo, vienkāršo  barību", zobu puve un deģeneratīvās slimības bija praktiski nulle.

Praisa darbu neviens pat nav mēģinājis atspēkot.

CIK CUKURA MUMS PATIESI IR NEPIECIEŠAMS?

Baltā necik, atsaucoties uz Dafiju.Taču modernās vajadzības ir komercijas, reklāmas un politikas radītas.. Cik jūs pazīstat cilvēku, kas izdzer vismaz 0.33 l limonādes( ar šo vārdu es apzīmēšu jebkuru saldināto dzērienu , ko jūs veikalā varat atrast) dienā?Ja mēs varētu izkristalizēt cukuru no tā daudzuma, mums sanāktu apm. 10 tējkarotes. (Appleton, p 16) Ieberiet 10 tējkarotes cukura kolas pudelē un paskatieties. Vai tas ir daudz? Normālā asinsritē, kas ir aptuveni 5 litri, visu laiku ir jācirkulē apmēram 2 tējkarotēm glikozes.Tas nozīmē, ka viena kola uz  vismaz 4 stundām paaugstina cukura līmeni asinīs 5 reizes.

Apstāsimies uz mirkli.Tas ir viens dzēriens. Vai pazīstat kādu, kas dzer vairāk kā vienu dzērienu dienā?Vai varbūt stundas laikā?Parēķiniet..

Tam visam pievienojiet cukuru saldajos ēdienos, saldējumā, ievārijumos, želejās, mākslīgajos augļu dzērienos un konfektēs.Tas viss vēl pat nemaz nepieminot slēpto cukuru, kas atrodams kečupā, pārstrādātās gaļās, zīdaiņu pārtikā, dažādās mērcēs, pārslās un lielajā vairumā visu apstrādāto produktu, kuru etiķetes jums var gadīties palasīt.

Jā, starp citu, vai jūs zinājāt ,ka alkohols ir cukurs? Tātad pieskaities vīnu, alu, stipros dzērienus. Un pat tabaka! Vai jūs pamazām gūstat kopainu? Vai jums šķiet, ka pazīstat kādu ar divām tējkarotēm glikozes asinīs?

Visvienkāršākais cukurs ir glikoze. Kā dabīgais tā iegūtais cukurs beigās sašķeļas līdz glikozei, kas ir viena molekula. Gremošanas traktā tā ātri tiek uzsūkta un nekavējoties nokļust asinsritē.

Glikoze ir nepieciešama šūnu darbībai, jo īpaši smadzeņu šūnu darbībai.

Glikozes līmenis asinīs ir svarīga lieta. Par daudz un mēs kļūstam diabētiķi. Par maz- ģībstam.

Ķermenis ir  izdomājis daudzus veidus kā noturēt glikozes līmeni asinīs noteiktā diapazonā : 90 - 140 miligrami uz decilitru. (Guyton, 863.lpp.)

Aizkuņģa un virsnieru dziedzeri darbojas roku rokā, lai ik mirkli smalki regulētu cukura līmeni asinīs. Ja asinīm plūstot cauri aizkuņģa dziedzeris sajūt augstu glikozes saturu asinīs tas izstrādā insulīnu. Insulīns atbrīvojas no glikozes divējādi

novada uz šūnām

noglabā aknās glikogēna veidā

Virsnieru dziedzeris tieši otrādi-tiklīdz cukura līmenis asinīs krītas, tas sūta hormonu kas tiek saukts par kortizolu, lai tas ziņotu aknām, ka nepieciešama noglabātā glikoze. Un ķermenis ir gatavs rīkoties;cīnieties vai bēgt.

Lieliska, neskaitāmu tūkstošgadu evolūcijas rezultāts, sistēma, kas ,ēdot dabīgus produktus ir spējīga pati perfekti regulēt cukura līmeni asinīs. Bet tad uz skatuves parādījās cilvēku izgatavotais cukurs-savienojums, ko daba nekad nebūtu izgudrojusi. Šī jaunā ķīmiskā viela piedāvājot asinsritei tik daudz glikozes bez pierastajam, līdzi nākošajām šķiedrvielām, minerāliem un enzīmiem - bija un ir uzbrukums cilvēka bioķīmijai, kas attīstījusies gadsimtiem ilgi.Visi šie tik vērtīgie uzkrājumi, ko ķermenis bija plānojie izmantot savādāk, tagad ir jāmobilizē un jāizlieto , lai tiktu galā ar  80 kg nedzīvas nepārtikas gadā. Tā sacīt "bads no pārticības".

PĒDĒJAIS AICINĀJUMS PĒC ALKOHOLA

Alkohols ir cukurs.Tas ir rafinēts cukurs un vēl vairāk-fermentēts cukurs.Fermentēts nozīmē-pussagremots. Nodaļā par VĒZI (drīzumā) mēs redzēsim, kā vēzis zeļ vidē ar mazinātu skābekļa daudzumu vai pilnīgi bez tā. Tīeši tāpēc vēzim patīk rafinētais cukurs-slikti sagremojams, tas ķermenī fermentējas. Alkohols jau ir fermentēts. Fermentācija notiek anaerobā vidē:bez skābekļa.

Mēs zinam alkholosko dzērienu izcelsmi:

dzēriens              izcelsme

vīns                      vīnogas

alus                      mieži

viskijs                  rudzi vai kukurūza

džins                   rudzi vai kadiķogas

rums                    cukurniedres

degvīns               kvieši

Šie alkoholiskie dzērieni ir atsevišķu ogu vai graudu fermentēts cukurs. Alkohols ir super rafinēta viela. Tas nokļūst ķermenī bez vitamīniem, minerāliem vai enzīmiem, kas palīdz  tam sadalīties.Cukura izstrādājumiem pirms nokļūt asinīs vismaz ir jāiziet cauri gremošanas sistēmai. Alkohols savukārt pa tiešo no vēdera uzsūcas asinīs.Alkohols sāk momentālu uzbrukumu visām ķermeņa enzīmu, insulīna vitamīnu un minerālu krātuvēm, kas dara visu lai to sašķeltu un uzturētu ķermeņa tik delikāto pH līmeni. Tādējādi alkohola ietekmē ķermenis tik ātri noveco-tieši tāpēc daudzi alkoholiķi izskatās tik veci. Hroniska dehidrozācija(atūdeņošanās).

Visa šīs nodaļas cukura informācija attiecināma arī uz alkoholu.Cukura kaitīgā ietekme uz ķermeni ir daudz ļaunāka no alkohola, jo ir veikts papildus rafinēšanas solis -fermentācija-gremošana vairs nav nepieciešama; viela ir gatavs uzsūkties.

Vai atceraties PR(sabiedrisko attiecību) saukli pirms dažiem gadiem par to, ka glāze vīna novērš sirdstrieku? Vienīgais  labums tajā ir dabīgais piknogenola antioksidants( pycnogenol antioxidant), kas sastopams vīnogās-tik pat labi jūs varat dzert vīnogu sulu. Kārtējais Orvela cienīgs reklāmas meistarstiķis, to pašu cilvēku sarūpēti kā šie "vienkāršie dārgakmeņi":

mums nevajadzētu ēst taukus

aspirīns vienreiz dienā  novērš sirdstrieku

piens stiprina kaulus un zobus

ENERĢIJAS TRIECIENS? DRĪZĀK NOPLŪDE

Nav svarīgi kādus sportistus jūs redzēsiet TV  čāpstinot slavenus dzērienus, neviens no viņiem nav tik dumjš. Ko viņi dzer uz soliņa? Ūdeni. Enerģijas ilūzija no rafinēta cukura ir kaut kas tāds, ko cukura reklamētāji ir izcēluši gadu desmitiem. Sākotnējam nervu enerģijas pacēlumam seko  krīze, kad ķermenis tērē enerģiju, lai atgrieztos normālā stāvoklī. Tas padara ķermeni nogurušu, miegainu un izvārdzinātu.Ne tikai cukura reklamētāji, bet arī daudzi medicīnas "eksperti", kas ir cukura impērijas algotie "kareivji" ir publicējuši tūkstošiem pētījumu", pierādot, ka cukurs ir derīgs un dod cilvēkiem enerģiju.V.Daftijs citē šo triju gadsimtu māņu piemērus. Tas notiek vēl aizvien;piemēri rodami praktiski jebkurā populārajā mēnešrakstā. Jums jāsaprot ,ka miljardu dolāru industrija var atļauties nopirkt dažus zinātniekus. Pa ceļam.

Sākotnējais enerģijas pieplūdums ir virsnieru dziedzera šoka reakcija uz ne-pārtiku organismā. Cīnīties vai mukt. Rafinētais cukurs stimulē plašu diapazonu visādu  fizioloģisku reakciju;visas no tām nevajadzīgi tērējot šūnu un sistēmu enerģiju, un visām seko vārgums tiklīdz kā īslaicīgais pacēlums ir pāri. Tad jūs esat nomākts un zvēriņam ir vajadzīga kārtējā deva.

KO ĪSTI RAFINĒTAIS CUKURS NODARA ĶERMENIM?

Ātram pārskatam Apltona grāmatas 68-72 lpp. ir atrodama lieliska tabula. Lūk daži izvilkumi:

Rafinēts cukurs:

nomāc imūnsistēmu
bērnos izraisa hiperaktivitāti
bojā nieres
izraisa minerālvielu trūkumu, jo īpaši hroma, vaŗa,kalcija un magnēzija

padara skābu ķermeņa vidi
pūdē zobus
veicina novecošanu
Gremošanas traucējumi
Artrīts Astma
Candida albicans

samazināta asinsplūsma sirdī
izraisa osteoporozi
izraisa ēdienu alerģijas
izraisa ekzēmu
atherosklerozi
brīvo radikāļu veidošanās
enzīmu funkcijas samazināšanās
aknu un nieru palielināšanās
trauslas cīpslas
migrēnas
asins nosprostošanās depresija

Appletons katru šai problēmu pamato ar atsevišķu pētījumu. Šie simptomi ir viena mehānisma dažādas manifestācijas: cukurs nevar tikt sagremots. Cukurs padara neaktīvus gremošanas enzīmus. Tas paliek traktā, fermentējoties(rūgstot). Daļa no toksiskās masas uzsūcas asinsritē, kur tā skābina asinis. Ķermenis izmisīgi izmanto visu, lai saglabātu normālu pH līmeni asinīs. Augstākminētie simptomi uzrāda šo ķermeņa centienu galarezultātu, cīņas zaudējumu, vai audu bojājumu, kas ir kļuvis par gala izgāztuvi rūgstošjiem atkritumiem pārbāztā sistēmā.

SKĀBAS ASINIS

Kā mēs jau redzējām sadaļā par ūdeni ,pH  ir milzīgs faktors lietojot cukurūdeņus(soft drinks). Ja jūs ielejat glāzi kolas traukā ar ~40 l ūdens, skābes indeksa līmenis uzreiz samazinās no7.8 uz 4.6 (Whang,  22. lpp) Mūsu izdzīvošanas diapazons  ir pH 7.3-7.45 asinīs. Ir acīmredzams, ka mūsu ķermeņiem ir jāveic dažāda veida sarežģītas darbības, lai pasargātu mūsu 5 l asiņu no kļūšanas pārāk skābām. Šis process šķiež vitamīnus, minerālus un enzīmus, kuriem būtu bijis jātiek izlietotiem normālai vielmaiņai. Vai redzat kā cukurs var novecināt ķermeni? Nolietot virsnieru un aizkuņģa dziedzerus?

Vēl viena problēma ar pārlieku skābu gremošanas traktu ir tā, ka labās baktērijas, zarnu flora tiek iznīcināta. Viņu darbs ir gremošanas pēdējās fāzes. Bez tām tiek veicināta pārtikas pūšana un stagnācija gremošanas vietā. Pussagremota ogļhidrāti rūgstoši tāpat kā alus vai vīna taisīšanas procesā. Šie pussagremotie ogļhidrāti nokļūst asinīs tādi kādi ir un rada problēmas locītavās,muskuļos, orgānos-visur kur vien tie apmetas. Lūk, slimību piemēri ,kas rodas šādā veidā:

- osteoarthritis
- hepatīts
- ciroze
- nieru saslimšana
- hronisks nogurums
- kolīts /sakairinātās zarnas sindroms (colitis/irritable bowel syndrome)
- Candida albicans
- skābju atplūde /grēmas (reflux/heartburn)
- hroniskas alerģijas

---------------(See COLON chapter)

Candida albicans ir bieža sēnīšu(yeast)  infekcija, kas norisinās visā ķermenī. Daudzi pētnieki rēķina, ka apmēram 80% amerikāņu sieviešu varētu būt Candida. (Anderson) Pirmais kandidas cēlonie ir floras neasbalansētība- normāla flora kontrolē kandidu un citus potenciāli sliktus organismus. Un pussagremots cukurs ne tikai iznīcina labās baktērijas. Piedevām kandida zeļ tādā vidē.Dubults trieciens no kandidas albikāņiem.

ENZĪMU TRAUCĒJUMI

Daudzas no augstākminētajām problēmām ir nepilnīgas gremošanas un pārtikas sadalīšanās rezultāts. Rafinētajam cukuram piemit spēja mainīt mūsu normālo gremošānas enzīmu formu. (Appleton,  65. lpp) Rakstā par enzīmiem mēs noskaidrojām, ka tas ir slēdzenes un atslēgas princips. Enzīmi ir proteīni, kuriem ir specifiska forma citu specifisku molekulu šķelšanai. Kad rafinētais cukurs izmaina gremošanas enzīmu formu, kuras tur atrodas , lai šo cukuru sagremotu - redziet kas notiek? Cukurs netiek sagremots. Tas vienkārši tur sēž un pūst. Fermentācija.

Tieši tādēļ kola vai alus pirms maltītes nomāks ēstgribu. Un traucēs vēlāk sagremot ēdienreizes taukus un proteīnus. Cukurs iznīcina gremošanas enzīmus.

MINERĀLU TRŪKUMS

Vēl bez  enzīmu iznīcināšanas un asiņu skābināšanas cukur izsmeļ ķermeņa minerālus. Vairums cukura nodarījumu ķermenim var tikt izsekoti caur šīm trīs lietām.

Daudzas dzīvības funkcijas šūnās un audos ir atkarīgas no minerālu klātbūtnes. Daudzu vitamīnu darbība ir atkarīga no minerālu klātbūtnes.

Vispirms, hroma svarīgums insulīna darbībai. Dubults drauds hroma sakarā:

- hroms tiek tērēts ķermeņa mēģinājumos pārstrādāt un izvadīt cukuru

- izsīkstot krājumiem, nepietiek hroma kas ļauj darboties pieejamajam insulīnam .

Šī iemesla dēļ daudzi cilvēki, kam tiek uzstādīta diabēta diagnoze var izrādīties hroma trūkumā. Pat ja insulīns ir pietiekamā daudzumā, tas nevar iedarboties uz cukuru bez hroma kā līdzfaktora. (Appleton, 61.lpp)  Ļoti bieži keletētā  hroma  (chelated chromium) pārtikas piedeva līdz ar cukura aizslēgšanu no pārtikas var normalizēt pacientu , kas ir ticis noteitks par diabētiķi esam.

Ar sekojošū mehānismu cukurs var arī izraisīt osteoporozi:lai šūnas sekmīgi varētu izmantot kalciju asinīs ir nepieciešams zināms daudzums fosfora. Iztrūkstot pareizai kalcija pret fosforu attiecībai -kalcijs ir nepareizā formā. Kaitīgā formā. Formā, kas no kopējā šķīduma nogulsnējas un veido akmeņus žultspūslī, nierēs un aknās.Cukurs iznieko mūsu fosfora krājumus. Cukurūdeņi satur fosforskābi, kas vēl vairāk iedragā fosfora līdzsvaru. (Appleton,  83.lpp) Kalcija trūkuma asinīs  gadījumā ķermenis aizņemas kalciju no kauliem un zobiem. Dr. Vestons Praiss( Dr. Weston Price) pierādīja to  1920os.gados (Price)

Rafinētā cukura izraisītā kalcija nesabalansētība ir tā, kas izraisa zobu bojāšanos, daudz vairāk nekā skābu siekalu uzbrukums zobu emaljai.

Lūk vēl viena  jēlcukura un rafinētā cukura atšķirība. Jēlcukurs nepūdē zobus.Pēc Rojala LĪ( Royal Lee) datiem.

"Rafinēts cukurs ir zaudējis visus savus minerālus un tāpēc izvilks tos pa tiešo no zobiem...svaigi izrautam zobam nekas nenotiek jēlcukura šķīdumā. Ievietojot to rafinēta cukura šķidumā tas tiks ātri izēsts ar caurumiem."

(Sarunas,  46.lpp)

GLIKĒMISKAIS INDEKSS

Piedēklis "emia"  vārda beigās nozīmē -asinīs. Glikēmija nozīmē glikoze asinīs.

Visi ogļhidrātus saturošie ēdieni dažādi iespaido cukura līmeni asinīs . 1981, Deivids Dženkins (David Jenkins) nāca klajā ar veidu kā salīdzināt ēdienus attiecīgi pēc to iedarbības uz cukura līmeni asinīs. (Miller) Viņš to nodēvēja par Glikēmisko Indeksu. GI tiek bāzēts uz  glikozes, kuras vērtība ir noteikta ar 100 vienībām. Ābola GI  piemēram ir 38 un tādējādi tam ir zems glikēmiskais indeks. Baltmaize savukārt ir novērtēta ar  70 -tātad augsts GI.

Baltais cukurs (sucrose) ir rafinēts  un tiek ātri uzsūkts.Tam ir augsts glikēmiskais indekss (65), un tas negatīvi iedarbojas uz citu ēdienu normālu sagremošanu kuņģī un zarnās.Baltais cukurs izraisa strauju cukura līmeņa asinīs kritumu pēc sevis, jo ir iznīcinājis grenošanas enzīmus, kas ir nepiecišami lai pārstrādātu pārējo pārtiku, kas atrodas traktā un gaida savu kārtu.

Dabīgais augļu cukurs, jeb fruktoze pārsvarā ir ar zemu GI  (23). (Miller, 29.lpp) Šūnas ātri un labprāt izlieto fruktozi tādējādi atbrīvojot asinis no tās.

Šeit mēs redzam vienu no biežajām "Atkritumzinātnes" un "Ikviens ir diētalogs" fenomena kļūdām.Daži  "eksperti" teiks , ka nav labi dzert augļu sulas lielā cukura daudzuma dēļ. Šādam apgalvojumam nav nekāda pamata un tas norāda uz  izpratnes trūkumu par veselu pārtiku, kā arī neizpratni par enzīmu un glikēmiskā indeksa nozīmi.Augļi sevī satur enzīmus - maltāzi un invertāzi, kas ir nepieciešāmas lai sašķeltu fruktozi izmantojamā glikozē. Glikoze  attiecīgi tiek vai nu izlietota kā degviela vai uzglabāta. Cilvēki nesaslimst ar diabētu dzerot daudz apelsīnu sulas. Viņi saslimst ar diabētu ikdienā dzerot sešpaku  kolas , ēdod kasti ar virtuļiem vai puskilo saldējuma.

Piedevām agļi ir piesātināti ar vitamīniem, minerāliem, celulozi un dabīgiem antioksidantiem. Tās ir pamata barības vielas.

Alternatīvās ārstniecības praktizētāji dodot padomus vēža slimniekiem, kas ir atteikušies no standarta ārstniecības metodēm, reizēm iesaka pacientiem izvairīties no augļiem un to sulām, jo raugi "vēzim patīkot cukurs". Šādi nepamatoti padomi ne tik vien ir nepareizi; tie atņem pacientam svarīgu tādu barības vielu formu avotu, kuras ir nepieciešmas lai cīnītos ar vēzi un sasparotu imūnsistēmu:antioksidantus. Atzītākie veselās barības speciālisti, kā  MacDougall, Robbins, Dufty, Schultze, Gerson, un citi atzīst, ka normāls augļu un dārzeņu sulu daudzums ir ārkārtīgi noderīgs ikvienam, kas cenšās tikt pāri imunitāti izaicinošai kaitei.

DIABĒTS

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates never even mentions diabetes. (Dufty, p.78) Before sugar came on the scene, diabetes did not even exist.

The English physician Thomas Willis first identified and named diabetes in 1674, after England's annual sugar consumption had gone from zero to 16 million lbs. in the previous 200 years. But Willis was unable to say anything bad about sugar since he was King Charles' personal physician, and Charles was making a ton of gold off the sugar trade. (Dufty, p. 75)

Very good statistics were kept in Denmark, comparing refined sugar intake with diabetes deaths:

year......lbs. consumed per person.....deaths from diabetes/ 100,000

1880...............29.......................... 8
1934...............113......................... 18.9

Years of loading up on indigestible sugar wears out the pancreas. You'll remember that insulin, produced by the pancreas, is supposed to allow sugar to be taken into the cells and used. When the body is young, the pancreas works well. Excess sugar in the teen years gets the pancreas used to continually dumping lots of insulin into the bloodstream to get ready for the day's sugar load. Since insulin only lasts about 15 minutes, the pancreas may have to work all day long. Here's where the rollercoaster first begins: all that free insulin will serve to abnormally lower the blood sugar on those occasions when the person forgot to eat his usual 10x normal sugar intake. All that insulin, and all it's got to work on is a normal level of blood glucose. Enter hypoglycemia - low blood sugar. The body gets accustomed to excesses of both sugar and insulin. For awhile. Funny how pigging out on sugar causes low blood sugar, but that's how it happens.

A few years later, when insulin no longer can keep up with the incoming daily sugar fix, the pancreas finally gives up. Unused sugar builds up higher and higher in the blood. The kidneys try their best to excrete it, causing the classic 'sweet urine' sign. That's what diabetes is: constantly high blood glucose. The idiotic solution is to take a drug to get rid of all that extra glucose, instead of simply to stop eating 10 or 20x as much sugar as the body can handle.

Thus we see the stupidity of recommending candy for diabetics to "keep their blood sugar up." Candy just keeps the rollercoaster going for another ride.

Glucose is the prime fuel source needed by the cells. The person becomes ill because all this glucose is in the blood, but not in an environment that it can be used by the cells. So the body starves. Gradually, other problems occur:

extreme thirst
frequent urination
ravenous hunger
dizziness
disorientation
memory loss
coldness in hands and feet
bruising
weight loss
kidney disease
fatigue
the shakes
sores and cuts that don't heal
headaches
skin eruptions

Sound like a blind date?

What is the medical approach to diabetes? Same as the medical approach to anything: sell as many drugs as possible. In this case it's synthetic insulin to the rescue, or at least drugs like glucophage and glypizide.

FAKE INSULIN

The discovery of insulin was supposed to be the big savior. The 1923 Nobel Prize went to Sir Frederick Grant Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin. At first, insulin was difficult to make, and expensive. Only rich diabetics could afford to have glandular extracts from animals injected into their blood to compensate for their own spent pancreases.

But with the arrival of synthetic insulin, which a diabetic would have to inject daily for the rest of his life, all the alarms at the drug companies went clang. Fake insulin could be patented, mass produced and sold from now till the end of time! This was a very big deal, especially with the unstoppable rise in white sugar consumption, which would insure an endless stream of new diabetics.

Dufty tells of a much more important discovery that occurred the year after insulin was discovered, which was kept quiet. In 1924 a top researcher named Dr. Seale Harris discovered the connection between too much insulin in the blood and hypoglycemia. He found out the obvious: all that daily white sugar called up too much insulin. Too much insulin in the blood got rid of too much glucose in the blood, making the patient weak and dizzy when the blood sugar got too low. But what sentenced Dr. Harris to the Hall of Obscurity for all time is that his solution was not some manmade pill that would make billions for the drug companies. No, Harris's solution to hypoglycemia was obvious: stop overloading on white sugar, and thus normalize natural insulin production.

No Nobel Prize for Harris. The medical approach is always the same: if an imbalance cannot be corrected by a new drug, any natural remedy, like sensible eating, is called "unscientific."

Do doctors want to screen people by repeated Glucose Tolerance tests, just to make sure they're really diabetics before they're sentenced to a life of fake insulin? Are you kidding? Some people are put on insulin after a single lab test with a borderline high reading of blood glucose. Or at least given the prescription for the two G drugs listed above.

WHAt's WRONG WITH THESE DRUGS?

First off, fake insulin.

Synthetic insulins are of three main types:

- rapid acting
- intermediate acting
- long acting

Some fake insulin comes from yeast. Scientist have found how to get a compound that is structurally identical to human insulin from baker's yeast. (Physicians Desk Reference, p 1917) Or from E. coli bacteria (p. 1463) Or from pigs: pork pancreas! (p 1477). There can be many different combination prescriptions depending on the doctor's opinion (guess), mixing the three types of insulin at certain times during the day. For each type - rapid, intermediate, and long acting - there is a multitude of different brands to choose from. Like Baskin-Robbins.

The main problem is that even though they pretend it's the same exact thing as the insulin the body produces, it really isn't. It's the usual science/numbers game, pretending that the body is just a car, and if we figure out the parts, we can replace anything. Or like if you dumped all the ingredients for a cake into a mixing bowl and just stirred it all up, what kind of a cake could you expect?

The catch here is timing. The body knows precisely when to put out exactly the type and amount of insulin from the pancreas that is needed. The whole blood sugar regulation process is an extremely sophisticated affair, involving the adrenals, the liver, and the thyroid in addition to the pancreas. We only know part of the story. There's a lot more to the swirling mystery of blood sugar than just figuring out the structure of insulin. Proof of that is diabetes has risen to the #7 cause of death in the U.S. today. (Centers for Disease Control)

Secondly, glucophage. This is a pill given to patients who are first diagnosed with diabetes. Glucophage artificially controls blood glucose by interfering with the body's normal rates of glucose absorption. Although the manufacturer warns that diet restriction should be the primary means of controlling diabetes, (PDR,, p. 797) in practice glucophage often may be prescribed after a single high blood sugar reading, without the certainty that the patient actually is diabetic. And rarely are diet choices evaluated.

Glucophage has several major side effects, which are seldom mentioned:

- kidney damage
- lactic acidosis (fatal 50% of the time)
- nausea
- vomiting
- abdominal bloating
- anorexia

- p 798 PDR

Glipizide is the other popular diabetic pill. This drug requires a functioning pancreas. Glipizide artificially kick- starts the pancreas to produce more insulin. (PDR,, p.2182) The actual way the glipizide lowers blood glucose is unknown. Perhaps that's why it has major side effects, listed by the manufacturer:

- increased risk of cardiac mortality
- kidney disease
- liver disease
- hypoglycemia(!)
- loss of control of blood glucose
- constipation
- skin rashes
- anemia
- dizziness
- headache

Outside of that it should be fine.

All you guys out there on these G drugs --your doctor ever tell you any of this?

Whether you're talking about manmade insulin or diabetes drugs in pill form, one fact has not changed since 1923:

these drugs have never cured one person of diabetes.

Think about it. Did you ever in your life know of a diabetic who shot insulin or took these drugs for many years, who eventually recovered and was fine, with a normal life? Of course not. Did you ever hear of a diabetic who was told to stop eating white sugar? Of course not - instead they tell the diabetic to eat more sugar when he feels weak! That's the game: the point of diabetes drugs is never health or recovery or curing the disease. It's always aimed at one target: sell more drugs.

What's the goal of medical therapy? As always, cover up the symptoms. Since most doctors have no background in nutrition, they generally tell the patient that diabetes is a disease which he will now have for life, that it was genetic, and the only way to control it is with drugs. The doctor won't even ask about the patient's recent diet - such information is irrelevant in making the drug sale. Many actually go so far as to say that what the patient eats will have no effect on the disease, now that the pancreas is worn out. This is why dietary advice is absent after a diagnosis of diabetes is given.

The absurdity and error of such recommendations are appreciated by the thousands of patients, initially diagnosed as diabetic, who have cured themselves completely, simply by cleaning up their diet.

Dr. Stephen Gyland proved in the 1950s, like dozens of other healers after him, that the only way diabetes can be actually cured is to change the diet radically. (Gyland letter) There are many holistic programs which demonstrate consistent success in reversing adult onset diabetes, the most common type. Take a wild guess what the first step is, in the healing process. That's right; no more refined sugar. Including alcohol.

This sounds very simple, but in reality it's incredibly difficult. Look what the patient has to overcome:

1. He doesn't want to give up sugar. He's addicted to it, loves the taste, and needs the short-lived euphoria.

2. The doctors don't say the patient has to give up sugar. In fact, the doctor will tell the patient to eat candy when he feels light headed, to "bring his blood sugar up."

3. Sugar is everywhere: in most foods, in a thousand forms, and it lines the checkout aisles that people have to wait in to buy groceries.

4. There's going to be an unpleasant withdrawal period.

This is where medicine is so well-positioned. Medicine is saying, Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of everything. Give us the responsibility for your health, and go on eating whatever you want. Your sugar-binges for the past 20 years didn't bring on your diabetes; it's genetic

For a weakening, softening society with declining health, diabetes medication is the perfect solution. It delays the decision, takes the pressure off, and avoids unpleasant pro-action. Great! I can keep on drinking coke, like everyone else! All I have to do is take these pills and the doctor says I'll be fine. Lots of people are doing it.

That's for sure. Lots of Americans are on diabetic medication. And the fact that medication has never cured anyone of diabetes has made us a country where diabetes is now, did I mention, the 7th leading cause of death!

SUGAR AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

On the way to becoming a full-blown diabetic, lots of other problems arise from overdose of refined sugar. The most obvious is the destruction of the immune system.

If you're old enough, ever notice how children today seem to be sick all the time, compared with 20 years ago? Today they've always got colds, they're always running to the doctor for antibiotics, cough medicine, or spray inhalators. And what else are they always running for? What is their primary reward for 'being good'? Sugar.

The whole absurdity of the chase-your-tail drugs and big money sugar game was brought sharply into focus recently by two headlines which appeared two days apart in the San Jose Mercury News, one of California's largest and most insipid newspapers. On 2 Sept 99, the headline read :

"S.J. Unified poised to sign Pepsi-only deal."

The story proceeded to detail an agreement between Pepsi and the San Jose city schools to exclude all other soft drinks from the schools' cafeterias and soda machines for the next 10 years in exchange for kickbacks of nearly $10 million! It was so weird - the story wasn't even trying hide the sweetheart arrangement in any way, or suggest that it was anything other than business as usual for a private company to kick back a percentage of the profits in trade for a juicy public contract. Wonder what Coke offered? But the health issues were not even mentioned - tooth decay, allergies, hyperactivity, Ritalin, violence - not a word. Just business.

And then two days later, 4 Sept 99, the main headline in the same paper reads:

"Asthma at epidemic levels"

This two-page article, with its 'Gee, I dunno' stance, reported that asthma among American school children is higher than it has been for 20 years, and increasing out of control. In its standard disingenuous way, the Mercury pretends to be baffled that researchers and drugs have not even made a dent in the number of children who walk around schools with inhalators, take multiple medications, or who die every year from asthma.

"..asthma remains a medical mystery."

The article quotes the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) statistics showing how asthma in the U.S.

" grew more than 150% between 1980 and 1998 - from 6.7 million to 17.3 million" cases."

The article states that in some U.S. cities, as many as a quarter of the children suffer from asthma.

The answer? Increase medical spending from $110 million to $178 million. Brilliant. Give researchers who after several decades admit they still have no idea what causes asthma another $70 million to continue their investigations. CDC's David Mannino sounds so humble when he states that they're like "..a bunch of blind men on the elephant."

Now stop here a second. This is just like cancer research. Do you think if these researchers whose living depends on getting government research grants actually found a cure for asthma they would tell us? And then what? They'd be out of a job. As long as they "keep looking" everybody's happy - the money keeps pouring in.

In its plodding, predictable fashion, the Mercury goes on to highlight those areas where asthma is worst, and talk about the "epidemic" and quote various experts explaining how mystified they are. And then the requisite heart-rending individual story of the kid who "can 't even go to school any more because his doctors can't find a cure "

Come on!

CURE FOR ASTHMA

You want your kid to lose his asthma? Stop two things for 60 days: dairy and sugar. That's all. Just try it. Both are major allergens. As we have seen, sugar inhibits digestion by destroying enzymes. Undigested sugar just stays there in the tract and in the blood, and then goes throughout the body, lodging anywhere it can, including the bronchioles of the lungs. And what's the body's response to any lung allergen? Mucus. Narrows the air passages, and the body goes into distress because it thinks it's going to suffocate.

MILK

is just as bad. The definition of pasteurization is that the milk is heated until what? All enzymes are destroyed. Without enzymes, it can't be broken down, because now man has created a food that doesn't exist in nature. Forget that we're the only species to drink the milk of another animal. Forget that we're the only species to drink milk after childhood. The main thing is - we can't metabolize it. (See ENZYMES

CALCIUM?

Another joke. Remember all those enzymes that got destroyed by pasteurization. One of them was called phosphatase - essential for calcium absorption. We don't get calcium from milk. Children don't need milk for strong bones and teeth. Milk doesn't prevent osteoporosis. All these ideas were ingrained into our conscious from where? The school dietary "education" programs since the 1950s. Paid for by whom? Right, the American Dairy Industry.

After you find all this out, the killing blow is when you learn that milk causes osteoporosis, because metabolizing all this artificial manmade food steals calcium from the bones and teeth. Who's got the highest incidence of osteoporosis in the world? Scandinavia, Germany, and the U.S., especially states like Wisconsin?places with what? Highest dairy consumption. (Twogood, Appleton, Howell, McDougall. Douglas)

'Lactose intolerance,' - you always hear that. There's no such thing. They want to pretend some people have a genetic defect whereby they can't digest milk sugar. Lactose is milk sugar. But it's not the milk sugar we're allergic to - it's the milk. We all have milk intolerance. No one can digest pasteurized milk!

But we're not allowed to know all this. The above paragraphs challenge three separate billion-dollar industries: the sugar trust, the dairy trust, and the drug trust. None of them wants people to discover that asthma and osteoporosis can be eliminated simply by removing sugar and dairy from the diet. No, no, that won't do. That's not "scientific." Diseases are cured by one thing; drugs. Right? That's real medicine. If people change their diets, they won't need all those drugs and calcium supplements, and even worse, Clinton won't be giving out any more $178 million presents to try and discover the "cure " for asthma.

In his forgotten landmark work, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Weston Price proves beyond the shadow of a doubt the association between deteriorating health of a country's people and their exposure to white sugar and white flour.

So let's bring this twisted puzzle into focus. With sugar and dairy, we're talking about immune compromise.

The main part of the immune system is the white blood cells. Their job is to circulate and locate foreign stuff. Once they locate something alien to the body, the white cells attack it, destroy it and carry it off. A slight oversimplification, but generally this is a big part of how the immune system works.

Refined sugar interferes in many ways. First of all, refined sugar blocks digestion, allowing undigested food to get into the bloodstream, thus slowing circulation way down. If the white cells can't make their rounds, they can't do their job.

Appleton cites two university studies (p 52) which demonstrated that sugar suppresses the immune system by decreasing phagocytosis. Phagocytosis refers to the Pac-manlike activity of white cells munching up foreign stuff. Sugar greatly reduces the activity of the white cells' little 'flippers' (pseudopods), which are for reaching out to locate foreign debris.

Secondly, the immune system gets sensitized to refined sugar. That means it freaks out at first, trying to normalize the blood. But after awhile, the immune system adapts to the abnormal levels of sugar, and accepts the idea that it will operate at a sub-normal level. The sugar no longer triggers such a violent response, and as a result, neither do other foreign agents. The immune system gets more and more lenient about what level of contamination it will allow the blood to maintain. Overall health declines. This is right out of Hans Selye, the guy who discovered and studied stress.

A third way sugar depresses the immune system is by sticking to protein. In the early part of the 20th century, Louis Maillard proved that refined sugar has a particular capability for sticking to protein foods, like meat, and forming a strange new complex called glycenated protein. Food chemists call Maillard's discovery the Maillard Reaction. We lack enzymes for these weird proteins, and so they don't get broken down very well in the digestive tract. The immune system is then exhausted by trying to attack them year after year, since they are foreign material.

That's why after a big burger and a large coke, you may feel slightly nauseated. The sugar binds to the meat, making a glycenated protein - a foreignburger.

Funny thing is, the Maillard Reactions have been studied not primarily by nutritionists, but by food processors. Food chemists have evolved very sophisticated methods of gluing sugar to proteins, which is useful in the production of bread, pastries, candy, processed meats and fish, beer, crackers, and coffee. Carmelization. Taste and color are their prime concerns, not nutrition. (Scandrett) These foods are chemically processed, making it difficult if not impossible for them to be digested in our bodies.

Lowered levels of immune response is called immunosuppression. Its leads to frequent flu, colds, fatigue, and other diseases of civilization. The more refined the diet became, the more degenerative diseases prevailed - arthritis, allergies, colitis, diabetes, etc. This is not a theory.

SUGAR AND OBESITY

Obesity is defined as being more than 35% over normal weight. In 1993, 30% of Americans were obese. (Fats That Heal, p 405) At the present time, nearly half of Americans are in this category! The percentage increases almost every year.

Excess sugar consumption is largely responsible for obesity. Consuming 160 lbs per year of anything indigestible would probably have a less than salubrious effect on the body. But in the case of sugar, it's worse. Sugar becomes converted to fat. Excess glucose is changed to fatty acids, then triglycerides, then stored as adipose tissue. (Erasmus,p 34) This accounts for Joe Sixpack's spare tire. Or fat little Johnny, who must have his coke every couple of hours.

Worse news is that the types of fatty acids produced from refined sugar are killer types - the kinds that clog arteries. They are not essential fatty acids, which are necessary for complete health, and actually interfere with normal operation of the good, essential fatty acids. (Erasmus, p 35)

SUGAR, CORTISOL, AND MUSCLE BUILDING

The main reason pro athletes don't chug soft drinks is that they know what sugar does to muscle. As we saw in the Creatine chapter, muscle is either torn down or built up by the opposing action of two hormones:

cortisol
testosterone

A third hormone is also involved: insulin. Before this gets too complicated, keep these three facts in mind:

1. cortisol wants to maintain high levels of blood glucose for fight or flight situations

2. cortisol's favorite target is muscle. Cortisol gets amino acids from tearing down muscle. The amino acids are then converted to glucose

3. insulin regulates cortisol

So. We have seen that a worn-out pancreas no longer puts out sufficient insulin. With no insulin, cortisol is not regulated. Cortisol then has a free hand to tear down muscle. Sugar works into this scenario in two separate ways:

1. After many years, a high sugar diet destroys the pancreas's ability to put out insulin

2. processing refined sugar out of the body requires chromium. Eventually, with a high sugar diet, we are chromium-deficient. Chromium is necessary to activate insulin. With no chromium, even the little insulin still present cannot do its job. Result: cortisol runs wild and tears down muscle.

This is why diabetic tend to be flabby - muscle destruction.

Remember all this after a workout. If someone hands you a coke, think of canceling out all the good you just did for your muscles by the workout.

TOOTH DECAY

As noted above, sugar promotes a condition of acidity wherever it goes - the mouth, the stomach, the blood. In the mouth the pH gets lower with the presence of sugar. At around pH 5.5, the saliva begins to dissolve tooth enamel. (Appleton, p98) After eating sugar, the pH of saliva may go down to 4.5 and stay there for 20 minutes or more. This is why the dentists always say that even if you can't brush your teeth after eating sweets, at least rinse the mouth with water as soon as possible. That would prevent much of the dissolving of the tooth enamel.

Again, the definitive study of the effect of sugar on the teeth was done in the 1930s by Dr. Weston Price. Price traveled all over the globe - Scotland, Switzerland, Africa, the South Pacific, the Arctic, Australia, America - photographing and examining the teeth of every primitive civilization he could find. The photographs alone contained in his master work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration tell an inescapable truth - sugar has been a detriment to the human race. In case after case, savages in isolated wilderness had teeth like ivory, from centuries of eating a traditional, natural diet. Then civilization showed up. Teeth became rotten, bones became soft, and the new weaknesses were then passed on to the offspring. Then followed epidemic tuberculosis and arthritis. Dufty also talks about how the missionaries always brought the sugar. And the processed foods. Then come the slaves, and pretty soon everybody's in the real estate business. Ask the Hawaiians. Or the West Africans.

In 1955, Royal Lee noticed that impoverished people in India had "one-thousandth the tooth decay" that existed in the U.S. at that time. Many of those Indians were starving, and wouldn't cook anything that didn't require cooking, yet Lee noticed that "only one person in eighty had any cavities at all." (Food Integrity, p2)

Demineralization of bones and teeth is also promoted by the acidic environment created in the blood by refined sugar. Calcium, magnesium, and chromium are squandered in the body's attempts to rid itself of this non-food.

ASPARTAME

No discussion of sugar would be complete without mention of a phenomenon unprecedented in history: the marketing of a toxic chemical as an alternative to a devitalized food.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet, Equal, etc.) was discovered in 1965 by the pharmaceutical firm G.D. Searle. The whole story of how aspartame and diet soft drinks became a billion dollar industry is a dark tale, beyond the scope of this chapter. We will just look at a few highlights here, which should be enough to make you switch back to pepsi or coke classic. Refined sugar is only like a drug; aspartame is a drug.

Searle, the pharmaceutical compant, was doing research to invent an "ulcer drug" when a chemist James Schlatter licked his hand one day to detect a very sweet taste from contact with aspartame. Noticing that he did not die immediately, he had an idea for an artificial sweetener.

It took Searle and Monsanto 16 years to get aspartame approved by the FDA. The political implications of this food additive which could also be added to drugs to make them taste better - powerful forces lined up at the trough.

From http://thewinds.org/ we find

When the FDA approved [aspartame] for human consumption in 1974, it went against a body of evidence so enormous as to stagger the credulity of virtually any thinking person. "What most consumers don't know," says Mike Wallace of CBS's "60 Minutes," "is that aspartame's approval was one of the most contested in FDA history. Consumers have reported more than 7,000 adverse reactions to the FDA, ranging from dizziness to headaches to seizures."

How could such a toxin get approved for mass consumption? Consider this: aspartame was OK'd during the Reagan Era. Ronnie's appointee as FDA Commissioner was Arthur Hull Hays. A few months after approving aspartame, Hays left the FDA. Take a wild guess what his next job was. A top position as consultant for Monsanto's PR office! Ain't that America/ for you and me

From the very beginning, researchers had problems with aspartame's effects on the body, especially on the nervous system. A more complete list of aspartame's side effects is found in a Feb. 1994 report from the Department of Health and Human Services:

nausea
numbness
muscle spasms
weight gain {!}
rashes
depression
fatigue
excitability
rapid heartbeat
insomnia
vision problems
hearing loss
anxiety attacks
slurred speech
loss of taste
ringing in the ears
vertigo
memory loss
arthritis

Other researchers found that aspartame could cause

brain tumors
multiple sclerosis
epilepsy
chronic fatigue
Parkinson's disease
Alzheimer's
mental retardation
lymphoma
birth defects
fibromyalgia
diabetes {!}
-------- Blaylock

Read these two lists again. This is what people really get when they think they're getting what? A "diet" drink that will let them lose weight and still enjoy soft drinks? And it still causes diabetes and weight gain? Looks like some more masterful marketing, the type that sells vaccines and heart medication and fake insulin and pain killers. And the beauty of it is that the drug companies will get money both ways -

-when people drink the diet soft drinks
-when people then get all these diseases, which require more drugs.

Aspartame is a triple molecule composed of aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol (wood alcohol).

Russell Blaylock, a professor of neurophysiology, is the real expert on aspartic acid. In his book, Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Dr. Blaylock reminds us that MSG is 99% aspartic acid. Aspartic acid is a major neurotoxin which can cause virtually any neurological disorder you can think of. (See above list) It does this by producing free radicals that kill nerve cells. Blaylock has over 500 scientific references to back up this notion of nerve damage from aspartic acid.

A chemical that kills nerve cells may mimic several neurological diseases. One is Multiple Sclerosis. With true MS, the insulation around nerves - the myelin - is being slowly destroyed, for some unknown reason. This shorts out the affected parts of the nervous system. The result is a wide range of possible symptoms - numbness, pain, confusion, headache, blindness, organ breakdown, etc. But aspartame may cause the identical presentation, and be misdiagnosed as MS. This would render any treatment for the MS useless, obviously. The point is, if someone has been diagnosed with MS, or with any other incurable nerve disorder, and they're drinking diet soft drinks on a daily basis, the physicians may be barking up the wrong tree. And the patient will continue to poison himself, maybe to death. (http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/Aspartame.htm)

Aspartic acid is very dangerous to infants, whose nervous systems are still forming and have not developed a defense system as yet. Very similar to what we saw with DPT shots (Sanctity of Human Blood) It may not be wise to give your infant diet anything.

Phenylalanine is an amino acid necessary for brain function. In excess, phenylalanine lowers serotonin levels, causing depression. (Elsas)

Methanol is wood alcohol. In the 1920s when liquor was illegal, people would sometimes resort to wood alcohol, even though the dangers of blindness from doing so were well known. Methanol is a by-product of aspartame after aspartame breaks down in the small intestine, from the action of our enzyme chymotrypsin.

An additional problem with methanol is that it is then changed into formaldehyde in the body. As we saw in Sanctity of Human Blood, formaldehyde is a well-known neurotoxin and carcinogen, documented in every toxicology and pathology text ever written.

Researchers found out that digestion is not even necessary to break aspartame down into these three toxins. If the diet soda sits around in a room where temperature goes above 86 degrees F, formaldehyde is produced. (Moser, p 42) Other researchers have correlated the neurotoxic components of Gulf War Syndrome with the boatloads of diet soda that sat around in the desert sun for weeks, at temperatures above 100 degrees F. But such a thing happens every day in America in warmer climates. Soda delivery trucks aren't refrigerated.

Toxicity levels? The EPA has giving methanol as consumption limit of 7.8 mg per day. Problem is, a one liter bottle of diet soda contains 56 mg of potential methanol! (Monte)

How could something this toxic be approved by the FDA? That's simple. The demand. By 1986, Americans were drinking 20 billion cans of diet soda per year, all of it with aspartame. (Metzenbaum) In 1987, Monsanto sold 8,500 TONS of aspartame, according to USDA figures. After that year, they refused to release production figures. But it's unlikely that production has gone down since then, considering all the foods that now feature aspartame. A partial list:

diet soft drinks
breakfast cereals
puddings
malt beverages
pie fillings
candy
tea
fruit juice concentrates
baked goods
frostings
breath mints
chewing gum
coffee
wine coolers
yogurt
------- Gold, p 9, 10

Then Monsanto found the real motherlode - chewable vitamins. Here is a partial list of the drugs and vitamins which now are flavored by the proven neurotoxin aspartame:

- Mylanta Natural Fiber Supplement, Sugar Free.
- Centrum,Jr vitamins
- Childrens TYLENOL acetaminophen Fruit Flavored Chewable Tablets
- Childrens TYLENOL acetaminophen Grape Flavored Chewable Tablets
- Childrens TYLENOL acetaminophen Cold Multi-Symptom Chewable Tablets
- Junior Strength TYLENOL acetaminophen Fruit Flavored Chewable Tablets
- PEDIACARE Cold-Allergy Tablets for Ages 6 to 12
- PEDIACARE Cough-Cold Tablets for Ages 6 to 12
- PEDICARE Childrens Cold Relief Tablets
- TYLENOL Cold and Flu Hot Medication
- TYLENOL Cold and Flu No Drowsiness Formula Hot Medication
- Childrens Chewable CO-TYLENOLv

- ALKA-SELTZER PLUS Night-time Cold Medicine
- ALKA-SELTZER PLUS Cold and Cough Medicine
- ALKA-SELTZER PLUS Sinus Allergy Medicine
- BUGS BUNNY Vitamin Products (ALL)
- FLINTSTONES Plus Calcium Multivitamin Supplement
- FLINTSTONES Complete Multivitamin Supplement
- FLINTSTONES Childrens Chewable Multivitamin

- DIMETAPP Cold and Allergy Chewable Tablets

- TEMPRA 3 Chewable Tablets, 80mg acetaminophen tablet
- TEMPRA 3 Double Strength Chewable Tablets, 160mg acetominophen

- Zantac Efferdose

- SKAGGS ALPHA BETA Childrens Pain Reliever
- SHOP'N SAVE Childrens Non-Aspirin Pain Reliever
- KINNEY"S Childrens Chewable Non-Aspirin Pain Reliever
- PAY'N SAVE Childrens Chewable Non-Aspirin Pain Reliever
- PEOPLES Childrens Chewable Non-Aspirin Pain Reliever
- PIGGLY WIGGLY Childrens Chewable Non-Aspirin P.R.
- RITE AID Childrens Aceteminophen Non-Aspirin Pain Reliever

- Childrens Anacin-3 Chewable Tablets

- SUGAR FREE METAMUCIL

- ECKERD Sugar Free Natural Fiber Laxative
- LONGS Sugar Free Natural Vegetable Powder Laxative
- PAYLESS Sugar Free Natural Vegetable Powder Laxative
- RALEY'S Sugar Free Natural Vegetable Powder
- RITE AID Sugar Free Regular Flavor Nat.Veg.Bulk Powder
- SQUIBBCARE Sugar Free Natural Fiber Laxative
- THRIFTY Sugar Free Natural Vegetable Laxative

- HEALTH BALANCE Childrens Chewable Multivitamin
- ZOO CHEWS Animal-Shaped Chewable Multivitamin

- MEDIGUARD Childens Multivitamin Supplement (Cherry,Orange and Grape)

- EQUATE Chewable Vitamins Animal-Shaped (with Iron)

- MEIJER CIRCUS SHAPES (Complete with Calcium,Iron and Minerals)
- MIEJER CIRCUS SHAPES (with Iron)

- ANIMAL SHAPES Chewable Vitamins Plus Extra C
- ANIMAL SHAPES Chewable Vitamins Complete
- ANIMAL SHAPES Chewable Vitamins With Iron

- REVCO Childrens Chewable Multivitamins
- LONGS Children's Chewable Multivitamin
- GRAY DRUG FAIR Childrens Chewable Multivitamin

source: Use of Aspartame By Pharmaceutical Companies
Copyright 1996 Leading Edge Research

The above list can be verified by a trip to your local drugstore. The lowest example of bold-faced pandering that can be imagined is palming off known poisons to children by disguising them with cutesy names. Anybody see a correlation with the epidemic asthma levels cited above? What are we doing to our children?

This section is getting too long. The story of the politics and deceit behind the FDA approval of aspartame during the past 25 years is a classic in the usual format: poisons legislated into public use through sweetheart arrangements among manufacturers, legislators, and regulators, complete with the usual fraudulent research, hired-gun medical 'experts' proclaiming the safety of a proven toxin, etc. For the whole slimy tale, start with:

- Deadly Deception: The Story of Aspartame by Mary Nash Stoddard,
Odenwald Press, Dallas, Texas. ISBN 1-884363-14-8.

- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Russell L. Blaylock, MD, Health Press, 1997.

Don't miss the part about the Magic Rat. There was a famous investigation of all the research submitted to the FDA for aspartame's approval. The investigators wrote their findings in a document called the Bressler Report. The Magic Rat was a representation of the type of fraud uncovered by the Bressler Report. It seems there was one rat whose name was A23 LM. According to the Report: "that animal A23LM was alive at week 88, dead from week 92 through week 104, alive at week 108, and dead at week 112."

Even Elvis couldn't do that.

Want to know how lame the FDA really is? After the Commissioner and several key lawyers and researchers who were investigating aspartame had accepted lucrative positions with Searle and Monsanto, the FDA had the temerity to come out with a statement like this in 1995:

"FDA has no further plans to continue to collect adverse reaction reports or monitor research periodically done on aspartame." (Thomas Wilcox, FDA branch chief, Food Chemical News 1995)

So who's going to monitor it then? The FBI?

Here's the bottom line with aspartame: it's too big to get rid of. Just because it's sweet doesn't mean it's a food. Aspartame is not a food; it's a manmade synthetic. Food additives aren't necessarily foods. Aspartame is the #1 food additive on the market. It is also a component of thousands of prescription and non-prescription drugs. We're talking billions and billions of dollars every year. It would take a boatload of Ralph Naders to stop this kind of trade.

What can you do? The only thing that matters anyway: protect the sanctity of your own blood. And that of your children.

I CAN QUIT ANY TIME

That's what everyone addicted to anything for the past 300 years has said. So do it. If you think you aren't addicted to white sugar, prove it. For 48 hours. Not only cokes, high fructose corn syrup fruit drinks, donuts and ice cream, but condiments, sauces, and aspartame drinks as well. 48 hours. Meet the monkey.

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