Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It's hard to believe, but, as William Dufty recounts in Sugar Blues, refined white sugar was locked up back in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe and America. At the time, the substance was so expensive (the equivalent of about $30 a pound or a year's salary for the average working man) that it was considered a delicacy reserved for the very wealthy, and the nobility certainly didn't want their servants stealing such an exorbitantly expensive substance. To this day, Unani healers or hakims in Afghanistan reportedly keep sugar under lock and key, believing it to be a narcotic. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  Lactose (milk sugar) was the worst offender, followed by refined white sugar. Many eye specialists note that most people with cataracts eat diets that include substantial amounts of dairy products and refined white sugar. Cataracts can also develop if the diet is inadequate and prolonged stress is endured.
Q People who are deficient in the enzyme that converts galactose into glucose (ordinary blood sugar) develop cataracts much sooner than the rest of the population. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  It is this lifestyle and diet of refined white sugar, saturated animal fat, and junk food that causes a metabolic disorder of carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism.
Yes, diabetes has a very clear genetic component, especially for Type-2 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes also has a genetic component, but the genetic component is a less important factor. Both of these may be associated with gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy). Type-2 is also associated with vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The key deficient minerals are: magnesium, chromium, vanadium, manganese, and potassium. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Offending items include anything that has a high refined white sugar content, such as sweets, chocolates (especially milk chocolates), and fizzy drinks.
Phos ac: If hair has become thin and greasy as a result of emotional stress, especially in teenagers who are growing and developing very rapidly, Phos ac can be helpful. There is also likely to be a general sense of nervous exhaustion.
Sulphur: This remedy is best used if there is a tendency to be averse to washing in general and if there is a noticeable feeling of heat and sweatiness in the head and scalp. | | These items include red meat, products made from refined white sugar and flour, citrus fruit, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, tea, coffee, and alcohol. Also avoid "instant," convenience foods that call for water to be added. These are often a rich source of chemical additives in the form of preservatives and flavorings.
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Osteoarthritis treatments that include eliminating food allergies, supplementing deficient vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, stretching and strengthening joints, and herbal approaches tend to be the most successful. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | RAW SUGAR, BROWN RICE SYRUP, BARLEY MALT, AND MAPLE SYRUP ARE BETTER FOR YOU THAN refined white sugar.
NOT TRUE. This seems to be a universal belief, especially among the "health conscious." "This is a way that manufacturers fool consumers by capitalizing on our desire to buy natural sugars," observes Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman.
"I think people want to believe that some of these products are better for you," adds Lynn Baillif, M.S., L.D., R.D., C.D.E., diabetes nutrition educator at Mercy Medical Center's Diabetes Center in Baltimore. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The list of such ingredients that should be banned from the food supply -- but won't be -- include MSG, processed sodium, refined white sugar, refined white flour, aspartame, saccharin, hydrogenated oils, artificial colors, chemical preservatives, color fixer chemicals and homogenized dairy fats (which cause heart disease). By screaming "China!" to the U.S. press and pointing the finger at dangerous Chinese-made products, the Food and Drug Administration diverts scrutiny from its own lousy lack of meaningful food safety enforcement with U.S. manufacturers.
The silent treatment
U.S. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  For dietary purposes, it is nearly identical to refined white sugar. There are differences in the manufacturing process, and so-called evaporated cane juice does contain more vitamins and minerals than white sugar, but its impact on your blood sugar is virtually the same.
Frozen potatoes (hydrogenated oils + carbs)
Frozen potato packages are yet another food to avoid. Although they may appear to be a relatively healthy food manufactured with minimal processing, the vast majority of frozen potato packages contain hydrogenated oils. | | 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 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. | | 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. The FDA rode to the rescue. Government inspectors seized quantities of fortified sugar and declared by administrative fiat that the product was misbranded.
Refined foods cause nutritional deficiencies
Sucrose is a refined carbohydrate; refinement removes 90 percent of its bulk and all its vitamins and minerals. | | As Paul Pitchford states in the book Healing with Whole Foods:
Eating refined white sugar and other simple sugars 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 percent of diabetics can stop taking insulin and diabetic pills altogether, and the remaining 20 percent can reduce their intake.
The ugly politics of sugar, medicine, junk food and diabetes
In The Protein Power Lifeplan, authors Michael Eades, M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  General Mills is probably never going to be a health food company, but at least they can play a positive role in avoiding the most egregious nutritional mistakes (like making breakfast cereals with white flour and refined white sugar). What would the next huge improvement be for General Mills? How about making zero-sugar cereals with stevia as the only sweetener? I'd be floored, and I'd rave endlessly about General Mills if they went straight to natural herbal sweeteners. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  When you refine sugar beets or whole grains in order to make refined white sugar or white flour, you remove as much as 98% of the nutrition from those natural foods, leaving only a white, super sweet, highly concentrated refined sugar, and that's what ultimately gets fed to human beings. The waste product from this is a thick, brown, syrupy liquid -- that's molasses. Molasses contains most of the nutrition of the original food, including the vitamins, minerals, and various compounds such as uridine. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
See book keywords and concepts |  If you went with this approach, it would mean that refined white sugar is better than many fresh fruits, and fries are better than a baked potato!
But anyone of any race, color, creed, age, income group, religion, or educational level can understand that we have God-made bodies and if we put God-made food into God-made bodies it will result in God-made health. If we put man-made food into God-made bodies we end up with man-made diseases. And yes, I have tested this approach out on small children and uneducated, poor people and they all understand and it makes sense to them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Avoid all processed foods and foods made with high-fructose corn syrup, white flour, refined white sugar and other refined carbohydrates. Remove soft drinks from your diet, avoid all fried foods, snack foods, junk foods and any foods made by food-manufacturing corporations whose packaged foods line the shelves of America's grocery stores. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | The FDA actually banned vitamin-enriched sugar
Decades ago, some millers actually attempted to improve the nutritional value of their refined white sugar products by enriching them with essential vitamins and minerals. These were called "enriched" sugar products.
But with the claim that some white sugar products were now "enriched," other sugar producers balked and applied sufficient political pressure to the FDA to get the federal agency to actually ban enriched white sugar. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts |  Culinary Uses
Cane, palm, and rapadura sugars are easily substituted for refined white sugar. One popular use for the molded sugar is to melt it in a saucepan, strain, and then pour over pancakes or waffles.
Health Benefits
Because these types of sweetener are unrefined, they contain many more vitamins and minerals than refined white sugar. If used in excess, they still contribute to health problems.
Caper
(Capparis spinosa)
Capparis and the English caper come from the Greek word kapparis, said by some to have been derived from the Arabic name for the plant. Spinosa means "full of spines. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Skip the morning coffee with refined white sugar or aspartame, and skip that evening cocktail; your body will thank you for it. Avoiding acidic foods and beverages is especially important when you start to feel the first symptoms of acidosis—heartburn, bloating and fatigue. Acidosis' link to chronic disease is too serious to ignore, making it essential for you to keep your body's pH normal.
If you're already regularly experiencing these symptoms of acidosis, it's time for you to put your body back in balance. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts | | Many eye specialists note that most people with cataracts eat diets that include substantial amounts of dairy products and refined white sugar. Cataracts can also develop if the diet is inadequate and prolonged stress is endured.
Q People who are deficient in the enzyme that converts galactose into glucose (ordinary blood sugar) develop cataracts much sooner than the rest of the population.
Q Smoking is a risk factor for cataracts, probably because the free radicals it generates increase the oxidant stress on the body. | | The ability to maintain normal blood sugar levels is jeopardized by the lack of chromium in our soil and water supply and by a diet high in refined white sugar, flour, and junk foods. A number of human and animal studies have found that chromium supplements can improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control in the face of insulin resistance, elevated blood glucose levels, impaired glucose tolerance, and diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Xylitol tastes sweet, just like sugar, but it doesn't have the glycemic impact of sugar and at the same time it actually prevents cavities rather than promoting them (like typical refined white sugar would).
As the primary sweetener in Spry gum, xylitol works to prevent cavities as you chew it. By chewing xylitol, you not only get the taste pleasure from chewing great-tasting gum, you also get the health benefit of reducing the number of cavities you are likely to experience. Spry gum is also made with other natural ingredients such as soy lecithin and beeswax. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
See book keywords and concepts |  The idea is to replace refined white sugar with a smaller amount of syrup or juice. They're so flavorful you won't notice you're using less.
Stevia is an intensely sweet derivative of an herb from Paraguay. It is sold as a dietary supplement (its use as a commercial food additive has not yet been approved).
Sucralose (Splenda) is a calorie-free sweetener made from cane sugar to which chlorine has been chemically added, greatly increasing the sweetness of the final product. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | Those ingredients include: white flour, which depletes the B vitamins from the human body, and refined white sugar or any refined grains, such as white rice or instant oatmeal. It also includes chemicals such as tobacco and nicotine, caffeine and food additives such as sodium nitrite. You also want to be avoiding hydrogenated oils and excitotoxins such as MSG and aspartame. | | For example, one of the most popular products out there is called "Slimfast" and, believe it or not, its primary ingredient is refined white sugar. You'll find other diet bars and diet pills containing added sugars and high-fructose corn syrup. Of course, none of these products actually work to help people lose weight. They can't — they're made with ingredients that promote intense cravings and disrupt normal blood sugar levels in the body. As a result, they promote diabetes and obesity.
That's why these products don't make any health claims whatsoever about weight loss on their labels. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | Of course, you are hopefully using stevia as your sweetener of choice rather than refined white sugar.
Egg whites can also be added to any baking recipe to transform them into high protein recipes. Baked egg whites are fluffy and help hold foods together, so they make an excellent ingredient for items like pancakes, breads, and even pasta.
Of course, you can also just pan fry the egg whites with frozen onions, add a little pepper, and you'll have a low-fat, high protein scramble! |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | The sugar industry — sometimes called "Big Sugar" — continues to receive millions of dollars each year in corporate welfare from taxpayers as it produces refined white sugar. As a result, this makes sugar cheaper than it should be in the marketplace — which makes foods made with sugar artificially cheap as well. In a sense, this becomes a pivotal issue for people at lower incomes, because when they are at grocery stores looking for ways to feed themselves and their families, they are of course looking for lower cost food items. |
David Bodanis
See book keywords and concepts |  Crates and crates of refined white sugar are dumped on, stirred in, and left to spread. Since sugar dissolves in water it is taken up throughout the volume of the fat, wherever the GMS-assisted water has itself managed to spread. Sugar helps the fat and water concoction smell sweet, but mostly it's there to add weight-important as the aerated water and fat mix is now too light! Sugar turns out to be one of the most inexpensive substances of substantial weight that is safe enough to be added to food. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts | | Health Benefits
Because these types of sweetener are unrefined, they contain many more vitamins and minerals than refined white sugar. If used in excess, they still contribute to health problems.
Caper
(Capparis spinosa)
Capparis and the English caper come from the Greek word kapparis, said by some to have been derived from the Arabic name for the plant. Spinosa means "full of spines."
General Information
Capers are the unopened flower buds of a low, straggling, spiny shrub that grows wild on mountain slopes, principally those that border the Mediterranean Sea. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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.) Don't overdo it with the dried fruit; when the water is removed, fruit becomes a highly concentrated source of sugar and calories. When you get an afternoon or evening craving for fat, try a handful of unsalted nuts such as almonds or cashews. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This means foods that contain ingredients like refined white sugar, sucrose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose, white flour, enriched flours, and so on. So that means getting rid of all ice cream, cakes, cookies, sweets, desserts, candy bars, etc. These foods are causing your diabetes. Now, you won't hear this from the American Diabetes Association, because that organization is, to put it bluntly, actually thriving on the skyrocketing trend of diabetes in the United States. |
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