Sugar: Number TWO Cause of Physical Problems

SUGAR - NUMBER TWO CAUSE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEMS
From Hallelujah Acres

2. SUGAR

After animal products, which we took a long look at in
last week's Health Tip #415, the next most popular
DEAD,
FIBERLESS, and good-for-nothing KILLER food of our day
is
refined SUGAR! However, it is not a food substance at
all,
but rather a dangerous poison. Yet it is consumed by
almost
everyone in America, on a daily basis, and it does
horrible
things within the body. It is also something God never
intended our physical bodies to ever have to contend
with.
The only sugar God designed our physical bodies to
ever
have to deal with were the natural sugars found in the
LIVING, raw fruits and vegetables, that He, God,
created
and placed in the Garden!

Are you aware that a hundred years ago, the average
annual
intake of refined sugar was approximately 5 pounds per
person per year? Today, the average annual intake of
refined sugar is around 170 pounds per person per
year.
That means that if a person is consuming the Standard
American Diet (SAD), that person is placing into their
God
made physical bodies, over 50 teaspoons of refined
sugar
each and every day of their life. Thus a person who
lives
to the age of 70 will have placed into their body,
during
their lifetime, some 12,000 pounds of refined sugar.
Well,
let's take a look at what all that sugar is doing
within
our beautiful, God designed, physical body?

(1) REFINED SUGAR IS A DEAD FOOD

Refined sugar originated in a living plant, which
contained its complete complement of enzymes, but by
the
time it reaches the refined sugar stage, all life has
been
destroyed, and it has become a very DEAD food. Let's
look
for a moment at what they do with the original sugar
cane
or beet as they turn the living sugars found in the
plant,
into a refined, DEAD, product. The following
information
was taken from a newsletter written by Charlotte
Gerson:

"Sugar is a basic element in starchy food, however,
processed sugar is a completely different matter. The
sugar
we purchase in the supermarket for personal
consumption is
processed sugar. This kind of sugar is heated up in
chalk-
milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted. After
the
process, it becomes alkaloid, destroying all vitamin
content. In the second phase the sugar is mixed with
acid
chalk, carbonic gas, sulfur dioxide and finally with
natrium bicarbonate. The mixture is cooked and cooled
off
several times and thereafter crystallized and
centrifuged.

The dead mass is then treated with strontium
hydroxide.
Subsequently it arrives at the refinery where it is
passed
over chalk carbon acid to clean it. Dark coloring is
removed by adding sulfuric acid and then it is
filtered
with bone charcoal. Finally, it is colored with
Indathrenblue or the highly toxic Ultramarine. This
product's chemical composition is C12H22O11, which you
can
buy in shops as 'pure cane' sugar."

(2) REFINED SUGAR CONTAINS NO FIBER

Another important thing to understand about refined
sugar
is that just like we saw with foods of animal origin,
sugar
is devoid of all fiber. Let's remember here, that God
designed our bodies to move food through a very
extensive
digestive tract through means of fiber, and foods
containing no fiber create problems.

(3) REFINED SUGAR IS FRAGMENTED

Through heating and mechanical and chemical
processing,
all vitamins, proteins, fats, enzymes - indeed - every
single nutrient is removed until nothing but pure
white
sugar, pure 'naked calories,' pure refined
carbohydrate
remains. Sixty-four food elements are destroyed in the
processing. Fragmented foods set up nutritional
imbalances
that precipitate health problems galore.

(4) REFINED SUGAR IS HIGHLY ACIDIC

Like animal source foods, refined sugar is also 'acid
forming.' This means that the body must take vital
alkaline
minerals, calcium being the most plentiful, from the
body's
cells to metabolize refined sugar. This high sugar
use,
along with the consumption of animal products, causes
the
body to take so much calcium from our bones and teeth
that
the bones become osteoporotic and teeth decay.

(5) REFINED SUGAR CREATES BLOOD SUGAR DISORDERS

One pound of apples contains 263 calories, whereas,
one
pound of candy has 1800 calories. Refined sugar in
junk
foods is concentrated far beyond what the human body
was
ever designed by God to ever have to process at one
time.
Thus the body has to somehow deal with this incredible
large amount of sugar if it is going to survive. The
body
does deal with it, but in doing so, it often results
in
physical problems called DIABETES and HYPOGLYCEMIA.

DIABETES - In Health Tip #415 we learned that the
primary
cause of diabetes was the fat contained in animal
products.
But when a diabetic consumes refined sugar, the
pancreas
has difficulty producing adequate insulin when the
blood
sugar rises. Concentrated amounts of sugar cause a
rapid
rise in blood sugar. Chronic intake of sugar
eventually
exhausts the pancreas as it tries to compensate. Thus
the
diabetic is condemned to having to take
ever-increasing
amounts of insulin to compensate. Diabetes is the
'Number
Three Killer Disease," in America, preceded only by
cardiovascular related diseases and cancer.

HYPOGLYCEMIA - is the flip side of diabetes.
Hypoglycemia
occurs when the body still has a fairly strong
pancreas.
The body overreacts to a concentrated sugar intake and
releases too much insulin from the pancreas. Blood
sugar
levels then plummet far below the normal stable level.
The
suffering Hypoglycemic often experiences fatigue;
headaches; mental depression, and irritability. These
symptoms are often dealt with by the intake of some
more
refined sugar, and so the Hypoglycemic is often caught
in
an endless cycle that often causes the pancreas to
wear out
from all of the constant over stimulation - which
often
results in Diabetes, because now the sufferer cannot
produce sufficient insulin for normal metabolic
activities.

(6) REFINED SUGAR PROMOTES EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY

After a "sugarholic" has consumed a box of candy, or
bag
of cookies, or any large amount of refined sugar, they
know
how self-abused and depressed they feel. Sadly,
studies
reveal a strong link between juvenile and adult
criminal
offenses and sugar addiction. Similar research reveals
a
link between mental illness and sugar abuse. And
hypoglycemic reactions, for the very sensitive
consumer,
promote extreme irrationality, emotional instability,
and
oftentimes aggressiveness. Recent studies are
revealing
that sugar may be as involved in mental illness,
divorce,
and crime as alcohol has been found to be. Depression
is
also one of the most rapidly growing problems in our
society today, and refined sugar is one of the major
contributing factors! ADD and ADHD are running rampant
among our children and even some adults! It is a
problem
doctors are trying to treat with drugs, such as
Ritalin.
Isn't it a sad commentary, that these emotional
problems,
that were caused by the very toxic and poisonous,
addictive
drug (poison) called refined sugar, are then treated
with
another poison, a doctor prescribed drug! How sad! You
mother's who are having a problem with your child's
behavior might consider removing all sugar from their
diet.

(7) REFINED SUGAR CONTRIBUTES TO HEART DISEASE

Fat is not the only contributing factor in heart
disease.
Large amounts of refined sugar cause the insulin in
the
body to convert blood glucose (sugar) into fatty acids
and
triglycerides. Those on a high-sugar diet show
significantly higher levels of fat in their blood than
those who eat no refined sugar. This high fat content
in
the blood is directly related to the development of
plaque
build-up within the arteries, and ultimately, to
hardening
of the arteries.

(8) REFINED SUGAR LEADS TO ADDICTION AND WEIGHT GAIN

Sugar is highly caloric in its pure form, but then it
is
often combined with something containing high fat,
like
shortening, along with some salt, producing a tempting
goodie like candy, fudge, or a donut. Often these high
sugar foods are consumed with a high sugar drink, like
soda
pop. All of this sugar contributes to weight gain.
Recently
I read that if a person consumes just one 12-ounce can
of
soda pop a day, the 11-teaspoons of sugar in that soda
pop
could add 12 pounds to their weight in just one year.
Furthermore, because of the way it plays havoc with
emotions, refined sugar is highly addicting - it works
exactly like a protoplasmic poison, a drug. This means
that
once a sugarholic sufferer has given into this
crystalline
sweetness, they can't stop the addiction. And if they
dare
face withdrawal, the 'sugar blues' give them no peace
until
they return to the sugar, and resign themselves to
remain
fat.

Refined sugar is every bit as addictive as nicotine
and
alcohol! We have found that when a person decides to
adopt
The Hallelujah Diet, they usually do not have a great
deal
of difficulty eliminating the animal products, white
flour
products, table salt, or even caffeine (which is
another
addictive drug), but many find that the most difficult
substance to eliminate is refined sugar. Sugar has a
powerful addictive influence upon many people. Have
you
ever noticed that children, who are allowed to have
candy,
are always asking for more, while never being
satisfied no
matter how much you give them? It is because their
bodies
have become addicted to sugar and there bodies are
screaming for a fix.

(9) REFINED SUGAR COMPROMISES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Let's remember that the immune system is what God
built
into each of our physical bodies to protect us from
the
germs, viruses, and bacteria of this world. It is our
first
line of defense! Refined sugar is an immune system
suppressant! In other words, refined sugar cripples
and can
even knock out this first line of defense. Does that
not
give us a clue as to why so many people experience
infections, colds, the flu, along with other flu like
symptoms, and more? This editor hasn't experienced a
cold
or the flu, since eliminating refined sugar, and
adopting a
basically living plant source diet 30 years ago!

(10) SUGAR CONTRIBUTES TO A MYRIAD OF OTHER PHYSICAL
PROBLEMS

Refined sugar is associated with malnutrition and
decreased resistance to disease. Refined sugar impacts
quality of life as it increases the severity of PMS;
decreases cognitive or intellectual function,
especially in
children; sugar also contributes to our current
epidemic of
heart disease, and so much more.
Following is just a partial list of other health
problems
related to the intake of refined sugar: Acne,
addiction to
drugs and caffeine, alcoholism, allergies, anxiety,
behavior problems, binge eating, bloating, bone loss,
Candidiasis, depression, difficulty concentrating,
eczema,
edema, emotional problems, fatigue, food cravings,
hormonal
problems, hyperactivity, insomnia, menstrual
difficulties,
mental illness, mood swings, premature aging,
psoriasis,
and the list goes on and on.

To summarize, refined sugar and products made with it,
are
the second most often cause or contributing cause of
the
physical problems being experienced today. Refined
sugar
products are all DEAD, and FIBERLESS, and following
animal
source foods, the second most popular of the deadly,
KILLER
foods of our day. No wonder God says: "My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge." Isn't it a sad
commentary, that instead of dealing with our physical
problems by dealing with their causes, and eliminating
those causes, we deal with their causes and symptoms,
with
the consumption of other poisonous drugs! All because
we
have failed to nourish our physical bodies the way
that God
designed in Genesis 1:29!

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