Sugar, The Silent Killer
There is way too much sugar in today's foods. Find out all you can about this silent killer,
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Some History Of The Sugar Industry
Sugar was mostly grown in places like Southern Asia, and the countries near the equator and later spreading out further around the planet. History has it that it was eaten some 5000 years ago in India. Columbus brought the first canes of sugar to the Americas on his second voyage.
In the 17th through the 19th centuries it was boiled down into a syrup. Much slavery went on about this in just about every country that used sugar. You may not know this but sugar is BIG business in the world.
Sugar is used for everything from foods, preservatives, liquor and of course candies and confections to fueling cars and other machines.
By the 1840's sugar was being given to people as samples and pushed into everything you can imagine. Just a few years ago it has been said that most people's diets contain 24% sugar.
For an extensive overview of the sugar industry our can visit The History Of Sugar
About Sugar
Sugar is addicting as the more you get the more you want. There are withdrawal symptoms just as you would have with any addiction and they are listed below. Please get in the practice of researching and learning about what you put in and on your bodies and don't just blindly trust physicians and others to do what you need to do with and about YOUR OWN body. I am not saying not to go to your physician or take what you have to take. Read previous blogs here and there will be future blogs about knowing what your body needs and doesn't need. See if any of your symptoms show up on these lists. Your body knows how to function when it isn't full with drugs and sugar is a drug that has been masked for centuries. It is time to see the truth of it all. Take back your life.
ALL IN THE NAME - OTHER NAMES FOR SUGAR
There are many other names of sugar and it is wise to get used to reading those labels on our foods. We need to stop letting others have their hands in everything that we do, treat and even eat. This is just a short list of the other names for sugar that are in your foods:
Fructose
Dextrose
Refined Sugar
Brown Sugar
Galactose
Glucose
Lactose
Sucrose
Powdered or Confectioners Sugar
Panocha
Malt
Rice Syrup
Maltodextrine
Molasses
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Things That Have Sugar In Them
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 Cigarettes |
WHAT OTHER FOODS CONTAIN SUGAR
This list will no doubt surprise you as it did me as I was gathering information for this article For instance, I did not know that the only way that companies could sell Ketsup/Catsup was it the product contained sugar. That is one of the FDA's requirements. Did you also know that sugar is used in just about everything that you eat as a preservative? How about cigarettes? Yep they contain sugar!
Some other things that contain sugar are:
Canned meats and fish,
Bacon,
Soup Mix
Crackers
Laxatives
Lipstick, libglosses and chapstick products
Potato Chips,
Stamps (the ones you lick to attach to your mail)
Wheat and other carbohydrates
Alcoholic beverages and liquers
Chewing Tobacco
Sugar Cured Meats and some others that are not cured that way
Envelopes (the part you lick to close them)
and even your vitamins and drugs that you take.
How To Tell If You Are Addicted To Sugar
SUGAR ADDICTION SYMPTOMS
According to SUGAR BLUES sugar is implicated and even causes these symptoms. Some of which are misdiagnosed as something else entirely.
Overweight, heart disease, --raised blood triglycerides and sticky blood platelets, increased stomach acid, hypoglycemia, diabetes, hyperactivity, kidney and liver enlargement, more uric acid in bloodstream, cancer (more on this later!), obstruction in the elimination of dietary protein and cavities caused by calcium leached from the teeth and of course a weakened immune system. Other things it causes are: PMS and an overgrowth of yeast in the body.
Consuming Refined Sugar often mimics other physical conditions such as: marked sleepiness not caused by sleeplessness, muscle aches and fatigue, lethargy and always thirty, Halitosis or bad breath, heartburn, gas or bloating and flu-like symptoms which include upset stomach, achy body and muscles and very tired.
Along with these there are emotional and mental aspects of this Addiction. Those would be: short tempered, absentminded, symptoms of depression, lack of motivation, lethargy. irrational thought processes and emotional outbursts.
Try going to a more natural UN-refined sugar.
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What Are Sugar Withdrawals
SUGAR WITHDRAWALS
Sugar is equated with heroine and alcohol addictions and it does change the chemicals and neurology of the brain. The symptoms of withdrawal are the same as overcoming a drug addiction. Most prevalent symptoms include the headache, body aches and chills. With some withdrawals you will also have shaking and tremors. The more you now about thee things the better you can schedule your own withdrawal times to prevent unexpected and unwanted occurrences in public or with people whom you don't want to think you are a drug addict even though you are an addict--to sugar.
Truth About Sugar Substitutes
SUGAR SUBSTITUTES
Aspartame is the worst thing that you can put in your body. It is a poison! In the early 1980's Congress was called on to pass this as a safe product. It was decided by one vote that is was safe. They had lots of evidence and studies that this product was very bad, yet they passed it. You have to ask why. Why would they put a proven poison on the market and not tell anyone of the resulting poison and effects of this drug? Could it be money? After reading the things this drug causes I have sinced stopped using any products with this in it.
Here are some of the causes that this poison does to the human body include headaches/migraines, nausea, abdominal pain, fatigue, sleep disorders, vision problems, anxiety attacks, depression, and asthma/chest tightness. It also is an exciter and is very bad for those with Hyperactive problems and pregnant women. Aspartame has also been implicated and mimics the diseases such as: Fibromyalgia Syndrome and symptoms of Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis symptoms, Dizziness, Headaches and Migraines, and Menstrual problems
It is composed of Methanol which is a proven carcinogen and causes retinal damage in the eye, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects.
The names for Aspartame are: Nutrasweet and Equal.
Read Lots More about the Sde effects and get information about Detox and Help Groups at Doorway.com.
Another popular sugar substitute that has come under scrutiny is SPLENDA. I have found that this also leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste to things made with this substance as well. I tried to find out about this and couldn't come up with any real data but putting this article up on Face Book a friend gve me a site with the information. You can get it straight on WometoWoman
SUGAR AND CANCER AND OTHER FACTS OF CANCER CELLS
Medical students learn of Dr. Warburg discovery concerning cancer and it's link to sugar. Medical doctors do not tell you these things. You have to research them first for yourself.
These are the things that he has discovered:
Cancer will not grow in Oxygen.
Cancer grows by fermentation
Cancer feeds off sugar
It grows 8 times faster than your normal cells..
Cancer will make a body waste away because it constanly needs sugar to feed on. If it doesn't get it from other sources the Cancer will take sugar from Proteins in your body. No, not sugar or carbohydrates, but the protien in your body. Patients die of the depletion of those not the cancer itself. They litterally starve to death.
There are cures for cancer if you take things to heart and read about them and research on your own fo these things. There is a diet that you can devise and use to kill your own cancer and there are some drugs that the medical profession is working on right now. These are Vitamin B-17 or Laetrile and Hydrazine Sulfate You can read more about these and some foods that include these so you can include them in your diet on: Alternative Cancer Therapies
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THE STEVIA PLANT
Stevia is a member of the Daisy family, is grown as an annual and is native to Paraguay. The Natives there have been eating this for hundreds of years. Stevia has been used for its healing properties by these people. Japan has been using in exclusively as their sweetener for more than 30 years. The leaves of the plant is used and it is said to be 300 times sweeter than cane sugar.
Research has proven that Stevia has no side effects nor is a cnacer causing agent and actually works with the Dibetics diets and instead of increaing your blood sugar levels is stablaizes them.
So far Coca Cola is in the process of getting the FDA to approval it's use as a food additive in foods and drinks.
For more information, news, recipes and research visit STEVIA INFORMATION
WHAT YOU CAN DO?
Research and more research. Don't rely solely on Physicians and Pharmaceuticals to tell you what you should and shouldn't be taking. Do your own research.
Cut back on your sugar consumption. Find out what things you are eating, drinking and putting in and on your own body and that of you family.
You can also grow your own foods and eat more vegetables. Anyone, in any kind of place can grow their own vegetables. There are special light bulbs that allow anyone to grow vegetables even in an apartment without windows. Grow food on your balcony or in a kitchen window or in a room with a window. Growing your own means you know just what goes on your foods that you eat and what is going into your body and the bodies of your children and family members.
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Comments
More people should read about this too. Aspartame is NOT a good substitute either. I won't touch the stuff.
I don't like sugar much, I guess I'm just lucky and then again it was never that common in my diet growing up. Maybe I never acquired a taste for sugar. I refuse to drink anything with sugar in it, that is just so weird to me. I can't imagine pouring sugar into my veins like that. Sugar is very bad for the human body indeed. Thanks for delivering the truth on this subject. :)K
Thanks.
Nicely done. I am limiting my sugar intake and trying to eat less red meat and more organic and raw vegetables. Sugar is the silent killer, avoid it as much as possible!
I was shocked when I learned how how many packaged foods contain sugar - everything from condiments to bread. Very informative article!
Yes and for many years. Many things are preserved by sugar and also the other killer...salt. We are just becoming ware of the things. What other things will re realize in the years to come of what we are doing right now? Thanks vocal_pen for commenting.
its funny we think ; and are told we have sugar addiction when really we have been fed megadoses of sugar posed as natural sweetener
Of all the sweeteeeeners available, I still will take sugarcane over the substitutes. No, you can't get away from it totally, but at least sugarcane is natural-in small does not harmful. Of course, children don't tend to eat suger in small doses. I will keep this in mind if I am diagnosed with cancer or a loved one is diagnosed with cancer.
What a bizarre ingredient for a cigarette, though. That was new information to me. I've known some smokers in my life. I don't recall them ever mentioning sweetness of taste.