Posted by MERM on 8/14/2007, 10:29 am LICK THE SUGAR HABIT In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications. Excerpts from “Lick The Sugar Habit” by Dr. Nancy Appleton "Sugar is implicated in a long chain of events in the body that leads to weight gain. The minerals in the body become unbalanced, enzymes don't function correctly, food does not digest properly, and allergies occur. Allergies cause addiction, addiction causes cravings, and overeating is the result." "Your sugar cravings are a direct indication that sugar is at work destroying your body." "When you eat ice-cream, for example, you are certainly getting a healthy dose of calcium. However, the sugar in the ice cream alters the phosphorus in the blood, and much of the calcium can become toxic rather than useful. Even if the ice cream contained 400 milligrams of calcium, that calcium would metabolize incorrectly and either become toxic or be secreted in the urine." "You may never have heard of anyone dying of a milk allergy, but in some cases, the allergy has so worn down the immune system that the body becomes susceptible to other diseases." "Through the combined effects of mineral imbalance, allergic reaction, and phagocytic suppression, sugar can destroy the immune system and slowly but surely lead to degenerative disease." *In other words, if you consume too much sugar daily, you are asking for multiple sclerosis, and other digenerative diseases. "Refined sugar, as tempting as it may be in all those cakes, candies, and cups of coffee, is, in fact, more of a pharmaceutical drug than it is a nurturing food. The minerals needed to digest sugar - chromium, manganese, cobalt, copper, zinc, and magnesium-have been stripped from the sugar during the refined process. This, in turn, forces the body to deplete its own mineral reserves to process the sugar." "Homeostasis is the wonderful balance in the body. When the body is in homeostatsis it is healing. When it is out of homeostasis, through life's indiscretions, it is on the degenerative disease path. Disease is that simple." "We are responsible for what we eat, think, do and say." "Foods can definitely change how you function, how you think, and how you feel." "Sugar is as addictive as any drug." ) Sugar-a silent killer: an extensive discussion by The Alternative Medicine Research Foundation (non profit research group) Thirty years ago I was chatting with Don, an old country doctor. A patient came in bringing some fresh corn to Don. (Many of his patients couldn't pay so they used the barter system.) Sally was euphoric. "It is a miracle, Doc", she exclaimed. "All them city doctors couldn't fix me, but you done it!" After Sally left I asked Don what was responsible for Sally's miracle. Dan just smiled stating, "A remedy taught to me by my grandmother." She believed that people ate too much sugar. Her treatment for the "miseries" was to avoid all refined sugar and drink 12 glasses of plain water every day. A week later I had a patient who didn't respond to any conventional treatment. I prescribed "Grandma's" remedy. It worked!
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR CARROTHEAD KNOW ABOUT SUGAR?
146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health
by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D.,
of the sugars
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