Posted by MERM on 8/14/2007, 10:31 am, in reply to "2- SUGAR CAN CAUSE DEGENERATIVE ILLNESSES so THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU GORGE ON ICE CREAM AND CAKES" Taken from sugar beets or sugar cane, this disaccharide is composed of glucose and fructose. Because it contains NO vitamins or minerals it must rob them from the body in which it is assimilated, (like a parasite leaching the "life" from its victim). Dextrose, D-glucose monohydrate, is a monosaccharide known as glucose, and comes from the hydrolysis of cornstarch, and is found as a prime ingredient in many processed foods. Dextrose is mentioned in the Sucrose Class because it acts very much like the vitamin-mineral parasite, sucrose; in order to be assimilated after digestion, it must rob the body of its valuable micronutrient stores. Raw or Natural Sugar is a white sugar that is also mostly sucrose. While it costs more than sucrose, raw/natural sugar is 96% less-processed sucrose, as compared to the purified/bleached table sugar's 99% sucrose content. The empty calories from this so-called natural product perform exactly the same as sucrose. Blackstrap Molasses is made from the "liquid leftovers" of processed table sugar (sucrose). It does contain small amounts of iron, calcium and B vitamins, but this token "good" is offset with 65% sucrose content. An extraction process performed on sorghum stalks makes sorghum Molasses. Unless this molasses produce is enzyme treated and heated, it will ferment very rapidly. However, this process "kills" the small amount of vitamins and minerals which pass through the initial extraction process, allowing only a small amount of dietary iron and pesticide spray to as a companions to its "sweet" 65% sucrose solution. Maple Sugar or Syrup also contains 65% sucrose content. Several processing techniques cause lead contaminates: such as boiling the maple sap in lead buckets, which allows lead to leach into the syrup or sugar-finished product for market. Formaldehyde pellets placed in the sap holes in maple trees to keep the sap flowing often leach into the sap and the final product. Other "nasties" found in maple syrup/sugar products are chemical anti-foaming agents, polishing chemicals, and animal fats. Add cooking the sap over oil fires in lead buckets and your final product becomes a delectable sweet-tasting yummy laced with poisons! Notes by Healing Cancer Naturally On April 11, 2007, a reader kindly sent me the following comment: “I have just read [the above article] about sugar and have found it very informative. However, some of [the] information about maple syrup production is wrong. Maple syrup is not boiled in lead buckets; it is boiled in stainless steel vats. Furthermore, formaldehyde pellets are not inserted into the tap holes. I know this because I just returned from a sugaring trip in Quebec where we tapped family trees and made syrup. We also visited the top syrup maker in the eastern townships who is a friend of my husband. He certainly does not engage in any of these ridiculous, dangerous practices. I have been in agriculture all of my life and have never seen a lead bucket used.” Here in Germany (at least) one can buy organic maply syrup which should be free of any such contamination as above described. * Fructose Class: A Not-So-Distant #2... About 20 times sweeter than table sugar, processed fructose is used as an additive to sweeten all sorts of packaged foods. Without enzymes, vitamins, and minerals, it, like the sucrose class, robs the body of its micronutrient treasures in order to assimilate itself for physiological use. As a sweetener additive, enzymes are added to corn syrup starch, which produces "High Fructose Corn Syrup"(always check ingredient lists on all labels). Fructose does not raise blood sugars significantly, but does raise blood serum triglycerides significantly! As a left-handed sugar, fructose digestion is very low. For complete internal conversion of fructose into glucose and acetates, it must rob ATP energy stores from the liver.
* Sucrose Class: Public Enemy #1!
Sucrose is found in almost all processed foods such as plain table sugar, dextrose, raw natural sugar, blackstrap molasses, maple syrup, or sorghum molasses.
Fructose is "natural" only when found in fresh fruits that contain all the enzymes, vitamins, and minerals to effectively assimilate it as a rich nutrient for human consumption.
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