Sugar is deleterious to your health and it is a chemical poison.
Refined white sugar is being labelled as a food when in fact it has no nutritional value. Its over-use can cause serious health problems (obesity, tooth decay, diabetes to name a few). There is evidence that it is also addictive like tobacco.
Big tobacco has seen some curbs on its advertising, marketing and labelling of its product. As well as, restrictions on where it can be used (eg. restaurants, cafes, public transport, clubs).
Big Sugar do not have these same constraints. In fact, in the US the big 3 sugar companies get very substantial government subsidies.
Similarly, sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane (or beet) and re-fined into molasses. Then it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into strange white crystals C12H22O, which is an alien chemical to the human system.
A second reason why sugar harms is its addictiveness. Starting with sugar in the baby formula, people not only develop a strong taste for sugar but an insatiable craving that never recedes.
A third reason is the slow and insidious damage caused by sugar.
A fourth reason is the outrageous amounts of sugar consumed by countries like Australia and the United States.Westerners in particular are told how they are the best fed and best nourished people on the face of the Earth. If we are talking about processed junk food –this is true.
If you examine the “foods” in any supermarket more closely and start reading labels, you will find just about everything contains sugar. Most of the foods are loaded with it – from cereals, to soups, to sauces, to sausages. Even flue-cured tobacco can contain as much as 20% sugar by weight. Some cereals areas much as 50% sugar.
Damage to the Body
Sugar plays a role in the cause of many modern illnesses and disorders.Most people already suspect its effect on children and adults who exhibit disruptive behaviour and suffer learning disorders.We have stated sugar is deleterious to your health and it is a long term chemical poison.
Just what damage does sugar do to the human body?
The list is endless.
* By far the leading cause of dental deterioration – cavities in teeth, bleeding gums, failure of bone structure, and loss of teeth.
* The main cause of diabetes,hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that,among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of the refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes.
* It is either a significant or contributory cause of heart disease, arteriosclerosis, mental illness, depression, senility,hypertension, cancer.
* It has an extremely harmful effectin unbalancing the endocrine system andinjuring its component glands such as theadrenal glands, pancreas and liver, caus-ing the blood sugar level to fluctuatewidely. It has a number of other extremelydamaging effects on the human body.
* It initiates auto-immune and immune deficiency disorders such as arthritis, allergies and asthma.
Some of the other effects of sugar on the body are:
Increases overgrowth of candida yeast organism; Increases chronic fatigue; Can trigger binge eating in those with bulima; Increases PMS symptoms; Increases hyperactivity in about 50% of children; Increases anxiety and irritability; Can make it difficult to lose weight because of constantly high insulin levels which causes the body to store excess carbs as fat.
There are a number of books available on the subject, but perhaps one of the most interesting ones is Sugar Blues by William Dufty.
