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everyone should read how poison sugar can be to the body as i am hypoglycemic and have been to many hypo meetings reguarding refined sugar in our diets yet no one even thinks sugar is bad and gives them to their children and themselves.Happel's wrote: From another yahoo group, this information is very interesting. It touches on the points made by Jeannie about poisons, but talks specifically about refined white sugar as a poison. I found them interesting and think most of you may, as well. If you like them, there are two more after this one. I can post those later. ~ Tracie WHY SUGAR IS TOXIC TO THE BODY[http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/sugarblues.html]by Dufty © 1975Extracted/edited from his book Sugar BluesExtracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1 (December 1999 - January 2000).PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editornexusmagazinewww.nexusmagazine.comIn 1957, Dr Coda tried to answer the question: When isa food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of"poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingestedor developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.Physically:

Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalystwhich is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates areaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for"poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".Dr classified refined sugar as a poison because it has beendepleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is leftconsists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize thisrefined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitaminsand minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plantin quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in thatparticular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates.Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxicmetabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing fivecarbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous systemand the

abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxicmetabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannotget sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, someof the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of thebody and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it providesonly that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories.It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet orcane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains andleaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demandits digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entiresystem.So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways toprovide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Mineralssuch as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from

vegetables),and calcium (from the bones) are mobilised and used in chemicaltransmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return theacid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, andmore and more minerals are required from deep in the body in theattempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect theblood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decayand general weakening begin.Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially, itis stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since theliver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (abovethe required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand likea balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, theexcess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids.These are

taken to every part of the body and stored in the mostinactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fattyacids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart andkidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerateand turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability,and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervoussystem is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the smallbrain, become inactive or paralysed. (Normal brain function is rarelythought of as being as biologic as digestion.) The circulatory andlymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpusclesstarts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and thecreation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and immunisingpower becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to

extremeattacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of thebrain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vitalcompound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role individing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds whichproduce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins arealso manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines.When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, andour stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes onesleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.SUGAR: HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALSShipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum fornine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they hadto tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar

pushers.This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar wasshipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescuedafter being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted conditiondue to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum.The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by thatincident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the resultsof which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a dietof sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.3The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist's experimentaldogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse thannothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar andwater can kill you. Humans [and animals] are "unable to subsist on adiet of sugar".4The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted the sugarindustry to the

hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day tothis, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars inbehind-the-scenes, subsidised science. The best scientific names thatmoney could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one daycome up with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of gladtidings about sugar.It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor indental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight; (3)removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling, worldwidediseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses.Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 inPanama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts oftheir refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters,who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes.However, the story of the public relations attempts on the part of

thesugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee ofWest India reported to the House of Commons that a prize oftwenty-five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up withthe most "satisfactory" experiments to prove that unrefined sugar wasgood for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.5 Food foranimals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirtcheap. People weren't eating it fast enough.Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses inEngland in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India madeits fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament, Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses tocalves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should tryagain by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anythingcome of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants

wouldhave spread the news around the world. After this singular lack ofsuccess in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugarmerchants gave up.With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the mostimportant agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee ofWest India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushersfor almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonialsfrom faraway, inaccessible people with some kind of "scientific"credentials. One early commentator called them "hired consciences".The House of Commons committee was so hard-up for local cheerleaderson the sugar question, it was reduced to quoting a doctor from farawayPhiladelphia, a leader of the recent American colonial rebellion: "Thegreat Dr Rush of Philadelphia is reported to have said that 'sugarcontains more nutrients in the same bulk than any other knownsubstance'." (Emphasis

added.) At the same time, the same Dr Rush waspreaching that masturbation was the cause of insanity! If aweasel-worded statement like that was quoted, one can be sure noanimal doctor could be found in Britain who would recommend sugar forthe care and feeding of cows, pigs or sheep.While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, publishedin 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (s Hopkins University),sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly apioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 publishedscientific papers, recording experiments with food, their properties,their utilisation and their effects on animals and men. The materialcovered the period from the mid-18th century to 1940. From this greatrepository of scientific inquiry, McCollum selected those experimentswhich he regarded as significant "to relate the story of progress indiscovering human error in this segment of

science [of nutrition]".Professor McCollum failed to record a single controlled scientificexperiment with sugar between 1816 and 1940.Unhappily, we must remind ourselves that scientists today, and always,accomplish little without a sponsor. The protocols of modern sciencehave compounded the costs of scientific inquiry.We have no right to be surprised when we read the introduction toMcCollum's A History of Nutrition and find that "The author andpublishers are indebted to The Nutrition Foundation, Inc., for a grantprovided to meet a portion of the cost of publication of this book".What, you might ask, is The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.? The author andthe publishers don't tell you. It happens to be a front organisationfor the leading sugar-pushing conglomerates in the food business,including the American Sugar Refining Company, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola,Curtis Candy Co., General Foods, General Mills, Nestlé Co., Pet

MilkCo. and Sunshine Biscuits-about 45 such companies in all.Perhaps the most significant thing about McCollum's 1957 history waswhat he left out: a monumental earlier work described by an eminentHarvard professor as "one of those epochal pieces of research whichmakes every other investigator desirous of kicking himself because henever thought of doing the same thing". In the 1930s, a researchdentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr Weston A. Price, travelled all overthe world-from the lands of the Eskimos to the South Sea Islands, fromAfrica to New Zealand. His Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: AComparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects,6 which isillustrated with hundreds of photographs, was first published in 1939.Dr Price took the whole world as his laboratory. His devastatingconclusion, recorded in horrifying detail in area after area, wassimple. People who live under so-called backward

primitive conditionshad excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural,unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined, sugaredfoods were imported as a result of contact with "civilisation",physical degeneration began in a way that was definitely observablewithin a single generation.Any credibility the sugar pushers have is based on our ignorance ofworks like that of Dr Price. Sugar manufacturers keep trying, hopingand contributing generous research grants to colleges anduniversities; but the research laboratories never come up withanything solid the manufacturers can use. Invariably, the researchresults are bad news."Let us go to the ignorant savage, consider his way of eating and bewise," Harvard professor Ernest Hooten said in Apes, Men, and Morons.7"Let us cease pretending that toothbrushes and toothpaste are any moreimportant than shoe brushes and shoe polish. It is store

food that hasgiven us store teeth."When the researchers bite the hands that feed them, and the news getsout, it's embarrassing all around. In 1958, Time magazine reportedthat a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had worked with myriadsof mice for more than ten years, bankrolled by the Sugar ResearchFoundation, Inc. to the tune of $57,000, to find out how sugar causesdental cavities and how to prevent this. It took them ten years todiscover that there was no way to prevent sugar causing dental decay.When the researchers reported their findings in the Dental AssociationJournal, their source of money dried up. The Sugar Research Foundationwithdrew its support.The more that the scientists disappointed them, the more the sugarpushers had to rely on the ad men.http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/sugarblues.html__________ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic __________________________________________________