Jack Challem
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 They're mostly refined sugar, other carbs, and unhealthy fats.
Practical tip: When deciding what to eat, emphasize mostly protein and vegetables. Eggs for breakfast, a Caesar salad (minus croutons) for lunch, and pan-fried unbreaded fish and vegetables for dinner are all good choices.
Practical Guideline #2. Eat Some High-Quality Protein at Every Meal
High-quality protein is good for your blood sugar. If your blood sugar is elevated, eating protein will help to control it. If your blood sugar swings wildly up and down, protein will help to stabilize it. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Cut Down on Alcohol
Alcohol is liquefied, refined sugar and is highly acid-forming. Therefore, it has a strong mineral-depleting effect in the body. The organ most affected by alcohol is the liver. If a generally healthy person drinks two glasses of wine within one hour, the liver is not able to detoxify all the alcohol. Much of it is converted into fatty deposits and, eventually, gallstones in the liver. If the liver and gallbladder have already accumulated a number of gallstones, alcohol consumption will make these stones grow faster and cause them to become more plentiful. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The bottom line is that the human body was simply not designed to handle the amount of refined sugar, white flour, salt, saturated fat, and other harmful food components that many people in the United States and other Western countries—especially those who live a sedentary lifestyle—consume. The result is the emergence of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes with all of their accompanying health risks. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Our 24/7 lives, where the lights are always on, we sleep rarely (and poorly), and we have an abundance of refined sugar available to keep us artificially charged,
FACT
Toxins Trigger Water and Fat Retention: When faced with toxicity, which provides inflammation, our bodies respond by retaining water in an effort to dilute both fat-soluble and water-soluble toxins. exacerbate the imbalance we experience in our body's internal workings. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 For instance, there is an overabundance of certain foods such as refined sugar. Refined sugars and refined flours (which are metabolized like sugar in the body) are hundreds of times more prevalent in the common modern diet than in the natural diets humans thrived on for millennia. This overabundance of refined sugars and flours contributes to all kinds of physical problems. One problem is that, if cancer does get started, lots of sugar in the diet may help the cancer to thrive because cancer loves sugar. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Plus I try to get people off refined sugar, refined white flour, refined pasta, and anything else that might stress the body."
Herbs also are beneficial in chronic fatigue. "To boost mental function, I use ginkgo biloba, probably the number-two herb after ginseng," Dr. Spreen says. "We'll give a trial of that to people who say they don't remember things the way they used to, and to children with learning disorders. We'll try the herb for about 6 weeks. If the person doesn't feel a noticeable difference in that time, it probably doesn't work for them. |
| When people eat a lot of refined sugar, the body tries to bring the sugar level down. Their sugar levels bounce up and down, up and down. They're getting highs and lows, which make their mind fog up and prevent clear thinking and memory."
Dr. Spreen follows up with other recommendations. "We ask people to eat foods in their natural state, not processed foods. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 In summary, factors that may contribute to insulin resistance and thus to diabetes include: high-fat diet; low-protein diet; deficiencies of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids; a diet high in simple carbohydrates; high-glycemic meals filled with refined sugar and starches; stress; low fiber intake; deficiencies of the minerals calcium, magnesium, chromium, vanadium, potassium, and zinc; deficiency of carotenoids; low intake of vegetables; lack of exercise; watching television; and nicotine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They aren't willing to stand up and say you should have absolutely no refined sugar in your diet, or that high fructose corn syrup promotes diabetes and obesity.
If you have good nutrition and you avoid exposure to environmental chemicals, then you won't express a disease even if you have the so-called gene that has been linked to it. These aren't genetic disorders -- there isn't some mysterious physical problem that can be corrected with surgery. There certainly isn't a disease caused by lack of pharmaceuticals, so treating them with drugs is ridiculous. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The anti-inflammatory effects of fibrous foods are commonly attributed to the short-chain fatty acids produced during colonic fermentation [49], but the harmful effect of a refined sugar diet may be more related to lack of immunoregulatory and anti-inflammatory micronutrients such as vitamins, phytochemicals, and antioxidants provided by fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. As mentioned, several dietary lipids can also affect the inflammatory process [22, 27, 34-40].
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Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| This has also led some doctors to point fingers at refined sugar as if it were as bad as alcohol in its destructive behavior on the liver (not to mention other body parts and systems). The progression of NASH can take years, even decades. The process can stop and, in some cases, reverse on its own without specific therapy (but likely with some diet and lifestyle changes). Or NASH can slowly worsen, causing scarring or "fibrosis" to appear and accumulate in the liver. As fibrosis worsens, cirrhosis develops; the liver becomes seriously scarred, hardened, and unable to function normally. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| The most important dietary guidelines for supporting good liver function are also those that support good general health: avoid saturated fats, refined sugar, and alcohol; drink at least forty-eight ounces of water each day; and consume plenty of vegetables and legumes for their high fiber and nutrient content.
Certain foods are particularly helpful in supporting liver health because they contain the nutrients your body needs to produce and activate the dozens of enzymes within the liver involved in the various phases of detoxification of harmful chemicals. |
| Simple carbohydrates, or sugars, are naturally found in fruits and vegetables, but most of the simple sugars consumed in developed countries are in the form of refined sugar like sucrose (white sugar). Complex carbohydrates include starch and other, larger carbohydrate molecules.
When high sugar, or low fiber, starchy foods are eaten in excess, blood sugar levels rise quickly, producing a strain on blood sugar control. |
Ron Garner
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 Researcher Nancy Appleton reported that 69 illnesses and diseases are caused by the consumption of refined sugar. She concluded that sugar excesses ruin our health.5
As if sugar isn't bad enough, artificial sweeteners, which have been introduced into over 5000 food and drink products, are absolute poisons. During his 30 years of research on Alzheimer's disease, Dr. H. J. |
Mike Adams
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 As Bill Gottlieb explains in Alternative Cures, animal products, processed foods, alcohol, refined sugar, and coffee create biochemical toxins in the intestines. The body then looks for somewhere to dump this toxic waste and often decides on the sebaceous glands, where the biochemical toxins, sebum and dead skin cells clog the pores and cause pimples to erupt on the skin. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 Each year during this decade the United Kingdom ingested about 70,000 tons of refined sugar, which replaced about 80,000 tons of wheat in energy value. The wheat was worth during that decade an average of £10.5 per ton. Wheat was roughly in balance during the ten harvests 1783-92, and the United Kingdom imported during that period an average of less than 15,000 tons, or about 0.5 percent of production, of which most came from Ireland. In most years an extra 80,000 tons of wheat would have been available from the Baltic, from the Americas, and from Ireland. |
| The story must be allowed to tell itself, but it would be worth asking first why people came to eat refined sugar at all, except as some sort of curiosity, and why they became addicted to it.
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What exactly is sugar, biochemically? All edible plants contain, in varying proportions, fiber, protein, fat, starch, and sugar. All vegetarian and omnivorous animals, including man, convert fiber and starch into sugar by biochemical means. Sugar is then made available in the bloodstream as a source of energy. |
| Starch and sugar (in the form of fructose) occur in all fruits and vegetables, and, before the arrival of industrial cane and beet sugar, mankind managed well enough without refined sugar, which is pure, or nearly pure, sucrose.
When pure sucrose is consumed in large quantities, the metabolism of the whole system is altered. If a person eats a fruit containing, say, 10 percent fructose and 10 percent glucose, the remaining 80 percent of dry matter has to go through a number of digestive processes to make the sugars available. |
| Negroes, in the Philippines, now devastated, starving, the home of Communist guerrillas, once the producer of half a million tons of refined sugar per annum; and others. "Others" found no room in the American market. Cane production in countries such as Cuba, with low wage levels, was much more profitable than at home. Domestic beet producers could obtain the help of at least forty senatots from twenty states, and to the influence of the beet grower were added the voices of the ancillary industries and the cattle barons, fattened by the beet residues. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Fatty, fried, and junk foods all fall into this category, as do products that are high in refined sugar.
Alcohol causes inflammation and triggers psoriasis in many people. Drink only in moderation and monitor your intake; if alcohol leads to a flare-up, you should stop drinking altogether.
In some people, psoriasis is brought on by allergic reactions to food. Read the Food Allergies section, and follow the elimination diet there. If a certain food triggers an episode of psoriasis or makes an existing one worse, remove it from your diet. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 The reason cited by the South African Medical Research Council for this problem is mainly the migration of people from rural areas, where they eat a low-protein, high plant-based natural diet, to the urban areas where their diet takes on a more affluent Western approach with more fat, more protein, and more refined sugar and processed foods.
With all these new diets, foods, and products, obesity, disease, malnutrition, and behavioral and mental problems (including depression) are more of a problem than ever before. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Avoid alcoholic beverages and all sources of refined sugar, including sodas, candy, and low-fat baked goods.
An excess consumption of caffeine has been linked to high cholesterol. You don't need to cut out your coffee or black tea completely—just keep your intake down to a cup or two a day. Green tea is a much better choice, as it is rich in antioxidants that have been shown to prevent cholesterol oxidation.
Detoxification
Most people who have high cholesterol levels have been eating toxic foods. Detoxify your body (especially your liver) with a one- to three-day vegetable juice fast. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| By changing her diet to include more fruits and vegetables, and by removing refined sugar, this condition was entirely corrected. I have found that fresh fruit has a stabilizing effect on blood sugar because it contains water-soluble fibers, which slow down the rate at which fruit sugar (known as fructose, which has a more stable effect on blood sugar than refined sucrose) is absorbed. On top of this, fruit contains such a wide variety of nutrients that work together in the body to balance blood sugar. |
| STEP 2: Snack on Raw Fruit or Vegetables Before You Eat refined sugar or Heated Fats
Each time you crave something sweet, first eat one to two pieces of fresh fruit or up to half a cup of preservative-free dried fruit such as raisins or dates.
So what about those salty foods you crave?
I have found the most common reason we crave savory foods is a lack of essential fats in out diets. Take a look at the foods you reach for when craving these foods: fries, potato chips, hamburgers, cheese, pizza, toasted sandwiches, etc.—all high in fats. |
| As in so many other areas of hormonal function, refined sugar is particularly disruptive to the skin and so is gluten (the protein found in wheat, oats, rye, and barley), which can cause either dry or oily skin, or even acne. (By the way, gluten is found only in the grains of these plants and not the leaves, so rest assured that barley grass or wheat grass juice is gluten-free!)
Your coloring is determined by the amount of melanin that is produced by your skin. Melanin absorbs UV rays and acts as a natural sunscreen. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Avoid foods that are high in refined sugar, which leads to tooth decay. Be especially wary of sticky treats like caramels or hard candies, which can lodge themselves between your teeth and attract oral bacteria.
• Foods that are most likely to cause temporary bad breath include garlic, onions, strong cheese, cured meats, and anchovies. If the resulting odor bothers you, limit or stop your consumption of these items.
Detoxification
To get rid of undigested food, go on a three-day juice fast. Emphasize green drinks during your fast, and go easy on juices made with sweet fruits. |
| Stay away from refined sugar products, goods, and sodas, and eat naturally occurring moderation.
Please note that these therapies do no; replace conventional therapy for people who are having a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting.
Super Prescription #1 Homeopathic Apis (Apis mellifica)
Take a 30C potency every thirty minutes to reduce swelling and pain. The stinging or burning pain, along with great swelling, is reduced with cold applications. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Loss of these vitamins is directly tied to carbohydrate consumption, especially refined sugar. Diabetics typically have diets high in sugary foods before becoming diabetic, and as a result are very deficient in these vitamins when the disease finally manifests. Folate should never be given alone, since it may mask serious vitamin B12 deficiencies. The only form of vitamin B12 that should be taken is methylcobalamin, the form naturally found in the body.
There is some evidence that high doses of these vitamins may be needed for them to work properly. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Our digestive systems—identical to those of our caveman ancestors—are simply unsuited for the staples of today's diet: dairy, refined sugar, fatty meat, and processed food.
• By returning to the diet that humans lived on for the vast majority of their time on earth, we can correct a great many of the problems in human health, including but not limited to obesity.
The argument for this position is pretty strong. DNA evidence shows that genetically, humans have hardly changed in the 2.5 million years the genus has been on the planet. The human genome has changed less than 0. |
| Hence, no grains, beans, potatoes, milk, or refined sugar. Period.
The main theme of Neanderthin is that the root cause of numerous diseases of civilization (including obesity) is eating processed foods. More specifically, you should not eat foods that are inedible in their natural state and can only be eaten because they've been processed (chief among them: wheat, dairy, and sugar).
In the late 1970s, Ray Audette was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (a crippling, painful autoimmune disease) that sidetracked his career in computers and threatened to destroy his health. |
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