Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I can only explain that Ensure is primarily made with ingredients that are strongly correlated with such diseases. refined white sugar, corn syrup, maltodextrin all have very high glycemic index values and are ingredients that are well correlated with such diseases. You'll have to figure the rest out for yourself.
Perhaps there could be some miraculous warping of reality where a product is made from sugar water but has none of the negative health effects of sugar water. |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
See book keywords and concepts |  Alcohol? Use refined white sugar or eat products with this devitalized material in it? What devitaminized and demineralized foods are dragging you down and enervating you? Is your willpower weak or strong? Who is the boss of your body? Your bad habits? Or does your mind control your appetites? Remember that flesh is dumb and can't think for you. Only with positive thinking can you overcome the bad habits that your flesh might crave. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But if you take straight sugar, that is, refined white sugar, which is something that does not occur naturally in the environment, and you put that in your mouth, then your body converts that into blood sugar very rapidly. It's like pouring jet fuel down your throat. This is the same as filling up your Toyota gas tank with jet fuel and trying to drive away. When you eat sugar you consume soft drinks -- which are even worse because they are liquid sugar -- you are trying to run your metabolic engine on jet fuel, and the human metabolic engine was not designed to run on jet fuel. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | Even though its name suggests it might be healthier, the fructose used in commercial products bears about as much resemblance to the natural sugar found in fruits as refined white sugar does to sugarcane. Generally manufactured from corn syrup, it, too, is a simple carbohydrate. Although it is easier to metabolize than sucrose and you need to use less (its sweetening power is almost twice that of sucrose), fructose cannot be relied upon as a substitute sweetener because it usually is in the form of a high-fructose corn syrup that contains 55 percent sucrose. |
Paul Pitchford
See book keywords and concepts |  Modern salt reminds one of the state of such other highly processed substances as refined white sugar and the white breads, pastas, and pastries. Unfortunately, relatively few people are informed about the denaturing of real salt.
Salt has the most "grounding," descending activity of any substance used as food. It can greatly influence all the rest of food preparation. In the Ayurvedic tradition, the active quality of salt was emphasized as markedly strengthening one's energy—to the point of hostility if overused. | | Eating refined white sugar and other simple sugars also contributes to diabetes because in excess, these sugars convert to fat in the body.) When a low-fat diet based on complex carbohydrates such as unrefined grains, vegetables, and legumes is followed for several weeks, approximately 80% of diabetics can stop taking insulin and diabetic pills altogether, and the remaining 20% can reduce their intake.7-9
In both juvenile- and adult-onset diabetes, too much sugar enters the blood, the kidneys excrete it along with fluids, and urination becomes frequent and excessive. | | This type of whole sugar, although nearly as sweet as its sinister cousin, refined white sugar, has a full array of other subtle flavors like any whole food. It is not to be confused with brown sugar or various kinds of raw sugar; it has far more mineralization and other nutrients to help prevent tooth decay and the plethora of diseases brought on by all refined sugar.46 7 Called gur in India, dried, unrefined cane juice has been difficult to export because of fermentation resulting from its moisture content. |
Robyn Landis
See book keywords and concepts |  All types should avoid refined white sugar and corn syrup. Heavily processed foods are not healthy or nutritious for anyone.
DOSHA CYCLES
The doshas don't fluctuate and battle for center stage only inside our bodies; their dance is evident in the environment around us. In the cycles of the seasons and the length of a lifetime, vata, pitta, and kapha take turns "driving the bus." It's helpful to know how the dosha that dominates a particular season or stage of life can affect you, so you can adjust as much as possible using factors that are within your control. |
Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts |  Zach's diet was typical junk-food fare: high in refined white sugar and artificial sweeteners, including products containing aspartame.
In addition to the obvious need to change his diet, my tests revealed the need for the digestive enzyme formulas Thera-zyme PAN and Thera-zyme Adr for his sugar intolerance. Taking digestive enzymes and eating properly eliminated Zach's seizures. Relapses occurred only when he reverted to his junk-food mode and did not take his enzymes.
Success Story:
Ending Six Years of Grand Mai Seizures
James, 47, had suffered from grand mal seizures for six years. | | In addition, refined white sugar (sucrose), white flour, and white rice are devoid of B vitamins, so even if you can digest the sugar or the starch (flour and rice), you still cannot transport it into the brain.
Protease Deficiency
People who are deficient in protease cannot digest protein. Even those who become vegetarians still have trouble digesting plant protein. Protease deficiency leads to a buildup of excess alkaline reserves (an alkaline pH, see quick definition) because there is not enough digested protein to supply the necessary acidity. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a process similar to the one described above for refined white sugar, refined white carbohydrates exhaust the body's supply of key B vitamins and essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and zinc. They impair the liver's detoxifying functions. Furthermore, they are much lower in fiber than their whole grain equivalents. White rice, which many Americans consider to be a healthy food choice, actually has zero nutrients and zero fiber.
Processed carbohydrates pollute the body. They are not a "clean" food? | | Sweet and Low: the Story of the Sugar Blues
After you eat refined white sugar, it is rapidly absorbed right into the bloodstream. Your blood sugar is immediately raised, and the energy rush gives you a temporary high. You feel good. But to regulate this blood sugar rush, your pancreas quicldy secretes an intense amount of insulin. The insulin lowers your blood sugar but, because it was forced to respond so quickly and intensely, it overcompensates, and you come crashing down. That's the sugar cycle.
The sugar cycle is one of the most common, and aggravating, food swings. |
Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Although the sugars in fruit are still sugar, they aren't absorbed as quickly as refined white sugar and unlike white sugar, a piece of fruit has vitamins, minerals and fiber. (If you have a craving for chocolate, you may be deficient in magnesium—try munching on some figs or almonds.) When you get an afternoon or evening craving for fat, try a handful of unsalted nuts such as almonds or cashews. But don't overdo it— nuts are packed with calories. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | HIGH-QUALITY FUEL
LOW-QUALITY FUEL
(high in antioxidants)
(high in free radicals) fresh vegetables whole grains legumes and beans freshly squeezed juices fresh fruit butters, ice cream, and dairy heavily salted foods, saturated fats commercial breakfast cereals sprouts nuts and seeds beef and pork protein coffee and soda refined white sugar refined white carbohydrates
Before you can begin experiencing the benefits of high-performance nutrition, you have to know what to eat. Let's start with the rules:
1. TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING YOU EAT.
2. |
William Duffy
See book keywords and concepts |  If the sugar pushers rose to the bait and began fortifying their refined white sugar with vitamins and minerals, they were between the devil and the deep. Some of their biggest customers like Coca-Cola and the soft drink makers might regard this as distinctly unfair.
Whatever happened in the higher councils of the sugar industry we shall never know. The FDA rode to the rescue. Whose rescue? Government inspectors seized quantities of fortified sugar and declared by administrative fiat that the product was "misbranded. |
Dr. Mary Dan Eades
See book keywords and concepts |  The worst offender is lactose, followed by refined white sugar. Simple sugars include: table sugar and corn syrup (sucrose), honey (glucose), milk sugar (lactose), fruit sugar (fructose), and xylose, the sugar-like substance often used to sweeten "sugar-free" diabetic candies, chewing gum, and cookies. Recommendation: Sharply reduce or even eliminate your intake of sucrose and xylose products. Let the dietary sugars you do eat come mainly from fresh fruit and dairy sources, keeping the total amount of even these sugars at 30% to 50% of your daily carbohydrate intake. R. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Because most of the B vitamins have been removed from refined white sugar and carbohydrates, consumption of these items upsets the pyruvate-to-lactate ratio and increases the amount of lactic acid in the bloodstream. These elevated levels of lactate lead to anxiety.
When you exercise vigorously without breathing properly, or in a stuffy, poorly ventilated environment, and the muscles can't access enough oxygen to burn glucose, then the body reacts anaerobically and lactate builds up. In lactate-sensitive individuals, this can cause panic attacks. | | Once in your system, refined white sugar steals back its missing nutrients from your liver. Because it has no other way of metabolizing and digesting sucrose, the liver has to comply. So white refined sugar not only deprives your body of the nutrients that can be found in natural sugars, but also depletes the few key nutrients your body has in storage. Over time, the consumption of refined-sugar sweets leads to liver stress and nutritional deficiencies.
In spite of its candyland, lollipop image, white refined sugar is not pretty. |
William Duffy
See book keywords and concepts | | If one inquired, one was often led to believe that the sugars traditionally used by the health food industry had been snatched from the mechanical jaws of sugar refineries sometime before the ultimate processing turned them into refined white sugar.
Then, in the late 1960s, when young people were questioning everything they'd been sold and natural food stores and co-ops began springing up everywhere, a young pioneer of the natural food movement in northern California had his doubts about brown sugar. | | Refined white sugar leeches the same vitamins for the same reason. The combination of refined flour and refined sugar spells double trouble: beriberi is that final stage of weakness, that exhaustion which is the body saying "Enough, no more." The health problems that physicians now call subclinical scurvy and subclinical beriberi cover all the escalating stages of malnutrition and weakness in between. Subclinical beriberi is an officious hermetic way of describing beriberi that is not sufficiently severe or classical in its symptoms to alert the average physician into diagnosing the symptoms. | | A shortage of the unpolished rice had arisen, so the chickens had been fed white, refined rice—the kind the refined European patients in the hospital were fed, together with pure refined white sugar, pure white bread, butter, jam, and all the sweet goodies the missionaries and colonials imported. As soon as this shocking waste of good white rice was discovered, the chickens had been put back on the unrefined rice. Eijkman began experimenting with the chicken feed. Soon he discovered the secret that the Javanese natives refused to share with their sugar-eating army of occupation. |
Paul Pitchford
See book keywords and concepts | | However, when dried cane juice is highly refined, it is simply another name for refined white sugar. To be certain of a wholefood product, choose unrefined dried cane juice.
Stevia
Stevia rebaudiana, a small plant that grows throughout Latin America as well as parts of the southwestern United States, is becoming much sought-after for its sweet leaves and flower buds. It has been used for a hundred years as a sweetener in South America and now has wide commercial value in Japan, where it is put in everything from soft drinks to soy sauce. |
Earl Mindell
See book keywords and concepts |  In the United States most brown sugar is made by simply spraying refined white sugar with the molasses syrup.) Raw sugar is banned in the United States because it contains contaminants. When it's partially refined and cleaned up, it can be sold as turbinado sugar. Honey is a blend of fructose and glucose.
So You Think You Don't Eat Much Sugar and Salt
306. Kinds of Sugars
More than a hundred substances that qualify as sweet can be called sugars. |
James Green
See book keywords and concepts |  SUGAR FOR SYRUPS
The best kind of sugar to use in the preparation of syrup is very dry, refined white sugar in a crushed, powdered, or granulated form. This is a chemically pure sugar produced by sugar refineries. It requires no further preparation. Pure white sugar is best used in the preparation of an independently permanent (off-grid) syrup due to the fact that the sugar (sucrose) to water ratio is critical for the resulting syrup to provide adequate preserving properties. |
William Duffy
See book keywords and concepts | | The difference between glucose made in the body from natural carbohydrates and refined white sugar can be the difference between life and death.] When you take starch, any form of starch, it's digested in the intestinal tract and ends up as glucose or one of the other simple sugars. Thus sugar or sucrose is really a "pre-digested" type of carbohydrate.
[More confusion. Sucrose is a refined carbohydrate; refinement removes 90 percent of its bulk and all its vitamins and minerals. This is precisely where the major damage to the body from refined sugar arises. | | After the introduction of refined white sugar and white polished rice on Japanese battleships, beriberi began plaguing the sailors the way scurvy had the British. Instead of going back to eating unpolished rice like the peasants, the Japanese navy went the whole way and adopted western rations like those of the British and German navies. Meat and condensed milk, among other things, were added to the diet of the Japanese sailors. |
Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS
See book keywords and concepts |  Elevating blood glucose levels suppresses the immune system The average American consumes 20% of calories from refined white sugar, which is more of a drug than a food.
BLOOD GLUCOSE REGULATION GLYCEMIC INDEX OF FOODS: prostaglandins
BEST: fats (oils, avocado, nuts, seeds protein (chicken, fish)
BETTER:vegetables, legumes, dairy GOOD: complex carbs (whole grains)
POOR: simple & refined carbs (sugars, fruits, juicing)
REGULATE BLOOD SUGAR TO SLOW CANCER GROWTH
>There is a long-standing well-accepted link between elevated insulin levels and risk of cancer. |
Barnet Meltzer, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | In essence, the entire trace mineral content and most of the B vitamins have been extracted from: refined white sugar; refined carbohydrates such as white bread; pastries; and packaged cereals. Because these items are already so highly refined, the digestive system is left with few nutrients to process, and instead the sugars and carbs are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. The pancreas reacts to this influx of sugar by releasing insulin, which lowers glucose levels, resulting in reactive hypoglycemia and all its mood-swing, food-swing symptoms. |
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