The human body is a biological machine similar to a car engine. It needs the right kind of fuel to work effectively. If you pour sugar into the car’s petrol tank, the car will seize up and the same can be said of the human body.
Refined sugar is very high in calories but completely void of nutrients. The processes it undergoes completely strips out anything from sugar cane that is worth consuming. Then the food industry adds sugar to other nutrient lacking packaged foods to improve the taste and create addictions and the effect is twice as detrimental on human health.
Sugar is cheap to grow and produce and highly addictive because it affects the brain providing a temporary and unnatural ‘feel good’ factor. This is also why the food industry adds so much of it to so many products. They are actually profiting from legally creating addicted consumers then very slowly poisoning them to death. Because the adverse effects of sugar take so long to materialise and go unnoticed for years the food industry gets away with it and the person consuming the sugar often puts their illnesses and conditions down to other factors.
Fat V Sugar
The food industry and the media have also manage to convince the general public that fat, not sugar, is the cause of obesity when, in fact. fat is needed by the body to absorb nutrients and for many other important processes. Cutting out fats can also lead to high LDL cholesterol, heart disease, neurological disorders, malnutrition and many other conditions. Refined sugar, however, is not needed in any form by the body and is the root cause of obesity, diabetes and many other diseases.
Many processed and ready meals contain sugar in varying forms and these food additives should be avoided.
Sugar additives in processed foods
- Agave nectar
- Brown sugar
- Corn sweetener
- Corn syrup
- Dextrose
- Fructose
- Fruit juice concentrates
- Glucose
- Glucose-fructose syrup
- High fructose corn syrup
- Invert sugar
- Lactose
- Maltose
- Malt syrup
- Molasses
- Raw sugar
- Sucrose
- Sugar
- Syrup
Fructose tricks the body into gaining weight by altering the metabolism as it turns off the appetite-control system. Fructose does not stimulate insulin correctly, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin which is the body’s hunger hormone that tells the brain it needs to consume more food.
It also fails to stimulate leptin which is the body’s satiety hormone meaning it tells the brain enough food has been consumed and stored as fat. The result of this is that more food is consumed than is necessary and insulin resistance develops, and this also suppresses the immune system.
Because refined sugar has no nutrients it robs the body of precious nutrients needed to metabolise it and gives nothing back which can lead to nutrient deficiency. It causes calcium expulsion and other important nutrients to be lost from the bones which leads to the following conditions:
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Painful joint problems
- Tinnitus, deafness
- Tooth decay
- Weakened bones
High intake of sugar not only displaces calories from needed nutrients, but also interferes with the body’s metabolism of nutrients, leading to damage of the liver, digestive system, kidneys, heart, brain, eyes, ears, skin and nearly every other bodily organ.
Sugar feeds cancer cells, parasites, pathogenic bacteria, viruses and yeasts, triggers weight gain and addiction which leads to lipoma, Dercum’s disease, gum disease, acne and skin disorders and promotes premature aging.
The entire burden of metabolising sugar falls on the liver, where excess is quickly converted into fat, which explains the weight gain and abdominal obesity of those that overindulge in sugar. It is the primary cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver and elevates uric acid which can cause gout and bladder and kidney stones.
It also raises the blood pressure, stresses the kidneys and leads to the chronic, low-level inflammation that is at the core of most chronic diseases. It is especially dangerous if there are signs of insulin resistance such as being overweight or having high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol or diabetes.
Sugar is loaded into soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks and hidden in almost all processed foods. It is found in mayonnaise that does not require sugar and all other sauces and condiments and even bread and supposedly healthy vegan burgers and sausages.
If people are living on processed foods alone their sugar intake for one day will be immense. Check labels of processed foods in the cupboards and see how many have one of the above sugar additives in them. It will be difficult to actually find one that does not.
Now it is also added to most infant formulas have the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula. Is this because the food industry wants them to become addicted and accustomed to sugar as early as possible? There is no other possible explanation because refined sugar is completely useless to the human body and especially a fast growing and developing baby.
Corn syrup is another profuse additive in foods which is very high in sugar and contains no nutrients from corn but it sounds ‘healthy’ so people are beguiled into accepting and ingesting it.
Dangers of obesity
America has the largest obesity problem in the world because they consume far more sugar and processed foods, however, the rest of the world will catch up eventually because processed foods are beginning to reach all corners of the planet. In 1893, there were just three cases of diabetes per 100,000 people in the United States. In 2021, 38.4 million Americans, or 11.6% of the population, had diabetes. Approximately 42.4% of adults in the United States have obesity, according to recent data. This translates to roughly 100 million adults, with about 1 in 11 having severe obesity.
The problem with diabetes is that doctors treat it with medications that allow the continued abuse of the body instead of just recommending a sugar-free diet. The same can be said for many other conditions which are treated with medications when the abolition of sugar and processed foods would have cured the patient.
Artificial additives and sweeteners also add to the dilemma because they too provide no nutrients but contain chemicals which cause many conditions and illnesses. See>> E number dangers
Intense mass farming techniques leach necessary minerals from the soil, and hence from crops, causing malnutrition. Unnatural hormones and antibiotics are added to intensely farmed animals which affect many processes in the body including the immune system of humans that ingest these animals.
Then, if all that is not enough for the human body to contend with, powerful toxic pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are used on food causing toxic build up in human organs.
Mega-sized supermarkets have been able to financially wipe out local natural food providers leaving the population with no alternative but to buy their refined sugar, salt, synthetic additive laden and pesticide poisoned food products.
The body is an incredibly amazing machine capable of cleansing itself of toxins, fighting off microbe infections and rebalancing and rebuilding damage parts but eventually, if overloaded, it cannot cope and that is when disease and health issues develop.
Education and awareness of the importance of good nutrition for the human body is vital. People need to know exactly what is in the food and medications they consume and be aware of the damage that ingesting sugar can do. Side effects listed on medications are not ‘side affects’. They are warnings of the possible outcome of ingestion depending upon the state of the body’s balance of nutrients, metabolism and immune system processes. Unfortunately, they are largely ignored because the patient relies upon and trusts in the doctor’s advice.
Doctors need to be made more aware of the importance of nutrition and the consequences of over consumption of poisonous addictive substances such as sugar and prescribe healthy diets instead of powerful toxic drugs for every condition and infection.
Alternatives to sugar
Addiction to sweet foods is as deadly as any drug addiction but is a very slow, painful and silent killer. It is also easier to become addicted when all processed foods contain so much sugar. People do not even realise they are addicted to sugar if the food they desire all the time is, in fact, a savoury dish. But they will more often than not find it contains sugar in the ingredients.
Unlike drug addiction there is an easy way to recover. Choose other sweet foods, such as organic fruit, that are natural and contain lots of nutrients that help their sugars be used in the body in the right way and never again eat anything processed.
Honey is one of the best alternatives as long as it is pure and unrefined or blended. Acacia and Manuka honey are more nutritious and have a higher antibacterial enzyme content.
Sweet fruits can be used to sweeten naturally and provide high levels of phytonutrients the body needs on a daily basis.
- Apples
- Apricots
- Bananas
- Berries
- Papaya
- Peaches
- Pears
- Mango
- Melon
- Mosambi,
- Soursop
- Star fruit
- Watermelon
Dried fruits are highly nutritious and can be used to sweeten both sweet and savoury dishes.
Sweet vegetables can give a delicate sweet taste to dishes as well as provide high levels of phytonutrients the body needs, plus they feed the friendly bacteria in the intestines. They are best steamed.
Many aromatic herbs and spices can add both sweetness and flavours as well as very high nutrition to the diet.
Repairing sugar damage
Carnosine and carnitine are natural compounds in the human body that have been shown to prevent the damage caused by excess sugar and they can reverse the development of advanced glycation end products that lead to disease.
The heart muscle and vascular system are very sensitive to the effects of free radical damage and protein degradation from sugar glycation. When critical proteins become non-functional from sugar accumulation, the heart and endothelial structures lose their elasticity and blood pressure rises.
Elevated glucose causes destructive changes to vital enzymes and proteins that set the stage for metabolic syndrome and tissue damage. This problem is particularly devastating in diabetics as blood sugar levels remain elevated throughout the day and sugar-protein cross links wreak havoc with renal health, vision, the brain and the nervous system.
Natural sources of carnosine and carnitine in alphabetical order
Daily morning liver cleanser
All these five ingredients together taken in a glass of warm water first thing in the morning is a liver cleanser and detoxifier and helps to alkalise the body. Sugar can make the body acidic.
Ingredients
- Half a freshly squeezed lemon or lime
- One tables spoon of apple cider vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon of turmeric
- A pinch of chilli pepper
- One teaspoon of honey
For more liver cleansers see>> Liver disorders
For natural foods that can help repair sugar damage see>> Healthy diet to aid recovery
As sugar can also feed cancerous cells, parasites, bacteria, viruses and yeast and fungus infections, visit the following links to find out how to treat these illnesses naturally:
- Anti-microbial healing plants and foods
- Bacterial infections and natural antibiotics
- Cancer
- Fungal and yeast Infections
- Parasites
- Virus infections
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