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THE SWEETEST POISON OF ALL
THE SWEETEST POISON OF ALL
The Sweetest Poison of All
A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly
linked
to the consuming of 'pure', refined sugar.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1 (December 1999 -
January 2000).
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. edi...@nexusmagazine,com
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
>From our web page at: www .nexusmagazine,com
by William Dufty (c) 1975
Extracted/edited from his book Sugar Blues
First published by Chilton Book Co. Padnor, PA, USA
Currently published by Warner Books, USA.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHY SUGAR IS TOXIC TO THE BODY
In 1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is
a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of
"poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested
or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.
Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst
which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a
reaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for
"poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been
depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left
consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this
refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins,
vitamins
and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each
plant
in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that
particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates.
Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic
metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five
carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous
system
and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic
metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot
get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some
of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the
body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides
only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked"
calories.
It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or
cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and
leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand
its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire
system.
So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to
provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals
such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from
vegetables),
and calcium (from the bones) are mobilised and used in chemical
transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the
acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and
more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the
attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the
blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay
and general weakening begin.
Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially,
it
is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the
liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above
the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand
like
a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the
excess 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 most
inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty
acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and
kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate
and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability,
and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous
system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small
brain, become inactive or paralysed. (Normal brain function is rarely
thought of as being as biologic as digestion.) The circulatory and
lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles
starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the
creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and
immunising
power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme
attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the
brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital
compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role
in
dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds
which
produce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins
are
also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines.
When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and
our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one
sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.
SUGAR: HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum for
nine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they had
to tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar pushers.
This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar was
shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescued
after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted condition
due to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum.
The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that
incident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the results
of which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet
of sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.3
The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist's experimental
dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than
nothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar
and
water can kill you. Humans [and animals] are "unable to subsist on a
diet of sugar".4
The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted the sugar
industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to
this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-
the-scenes, subsidised science. The best scientific names that money
could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come
up
with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings
about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor in
dental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight; (3)
removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling,
worldwide
diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses.
Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929
in
Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of
their 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
the
sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee of
West India reported to the House of Commons that a prize of twenty-
five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up with the
most "satisfactory" experiments to prove that unrefined sugar was
good
for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.5 Food for
animals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt
cheap. People weren't eating it fast enough.
Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses in
England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India made
its fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament,
John Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses to
calves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should try
again by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anything
come of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants would
have spread the news around the world. After this singular lack of
success in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar
merchants gave up.
With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the most
important agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee of
West India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushers
for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials
from 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 cheerleaders
on the sugar question, it was reduced to quoting a doctor from
faraway
Philadelphia, a leader of the recent American colonial rebellion:
"The
great Dr Rush of Philadelphia is reported to have said that 'sugar
contains more nutrients in the same bulk than any other known
substance'." (Emphasis added.) At the same time, the same Dr Rush was
preaching that masturbation was the cause of insanity! If a weasel-
worded statement like that was quoted, one can be sure no animal
doctor could be found in Britain who would recommend sugar for the
care and feeding of cows, pigs or sheep.
While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, published
in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University),
sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly a
pioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 published
scientific papers, ...
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The Sweetest Poison of All
A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly
linked
to the consuming of 'pure', refined sugar.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1 (December 1999 -
January 2000).
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. edi...@nexusmagazine,com
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
>From our web page at: www .nexusmagazine,com
by William Dufty (c) 1975
Extracted/edited from his book Sugar Blues
First published by Chilton Book Co. Padnor, PA, USA
Currently published by Warner Books, USA.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHY SUGAR IS TOXIC TO THE BODY
In 1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is
a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of
"poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested
or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.
Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst
which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a
reaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for
"poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been
depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left
consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this
refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins,
vitamins
and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each
plant
in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that
particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates.
Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic
metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five
carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous
system
and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic
metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot
get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some
of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the
body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2
Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides
only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked"
calories.
It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or
cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and
leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand
its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire
system.
So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to
provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals
such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from
vegetables),
and calcium (from the bones) are mobilised and used in chemical
transmutation; neutral acids are produced which attempt to return the
acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and
more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the
attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the
blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay
and general weakening begin.
Excess sugar eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially,
it
is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the
liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above
the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand
like
a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the
excess 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 most
inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs.
When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty
acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and
kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate
and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability,
and abnormal blood pressure is created. The parasympathetic nervous
system is affected; and organs governed by it, such as the small
brain, become inactive or paralysed. (Normal brain function is rarely
thought of as being as biologic as digestion.) The circulatory and
lymphatic systems are invaded, and the quality of the red corpuscles
starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs, and the
creation of tissue becomes slower. Our body's tolerance and
immunising
power becomes more limited, so we cannot respond properly to extreme
attacks, whether they be cold, heat, mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-effect on the functioning of the
brain. The key to orderly brain function is glutamic acid, a vital
compound found in many vegetables. The B vitamins play a major role
in
dividing glutamic acid into antagonistic-complementary compounds
which
produce a "proceed" or "control" response in the brain. B vitamins
are
also manufactured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our intestines.
When refined sugar is taken daily, these bacteria wither and die, and
our stock of B vitamins gets very low. Too much sugar makes one
sleepy; our ability to calculate and remember is lost.
SUGAR: HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND ANIMALS
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank nothing but sugar and rum for
nine days surely went through some of this trauma; the tales they had
to tell created a big public relations problem for the sugar pushers.
This incident occurred when a vessel carrying a cargo of sugar was
shipwrecked in 1793. The five surviving sailors were finally rescued
after being marooned for nine days. They were in a wasted condition
due to starvation, having consumed nothing but sugar and rum.
The eminent French physiologist F. Magendie was inspired by that
incident to conduct a series of experiments with animals, the results
of which he published in 1816. In the experiments, he fed dogs a diet
of sugar or olive oil and water. All the dogs wasted and died.3
The shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist's experimental
dogs proved the same point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse than
nothing. Plain water can keep you alive for quite some time. Sugar
and
water can kill you. Humans [and animals] are "unable to subsist on a
diet of sugar".4
The dead dogs in Professor Magendie's laboratory alerted the sugar
industry to the hazards of free scientific inquiry. From that day to
this, the sugar industry has invested millions of dollars in behind-
the-scenes, subsidised science. The best scientific names that money
could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one day come
up
with something at least pseudoscientific in the way of glad tidings
about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar is a major factor in
dental decay; (2) sugar in a person's diet does cause overweight; (3)
removal of sugar from diets has cured symptoms of crippling,
worldwide
diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart illnesses.
Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929
in
Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of
their 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
the
sugar manufacturers began in Britain in 1808 when the Committee of
West India reported to the House of Commons that a prize of twenty-
five guineas had been offered to anyone who could come up with the
most "satisfactory" experiments to prove that unrefined sugar was
good
for feeding and fattening oxen, cows, hogs and sheep.5 Food for
animals is often seasonal, always expensive. Sugar, by then, was dirt
cheap. People weren't eating it fast enough.
Naturally, the attempt to feed livestock with sugar and molasses in
England in 1808 was a disaster. When the Committee on West India made
its fourth report to the House of Commons, one Member of Parliament,
John Curwin, reported that he had tried to feed sugar and molasses to
calves without success. He suggested that perhaps someone should try
again by sneaking sugar and molasses into skimmed milk. Had anything
come of that, you can be sure the West Indian sugar merchants would
have spread the news around the world. After this singular lack of
success in pushing sugar in cow pastures, the West Indian sugar
merchants gave up.
With undaunted zeal for increasing the market demand for the most
important agricultural product of the West Indies, the Committee of
West India was reduced to a tactic that has served the sugar pushers
for almost 200 years: irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials
from 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 cheerleaders
on the sugar question, it was reduced to quoting a doctor from
faraway
Philadelphia, a leader of the recent American colonial rebellion:
"The
great Dr Rush of Philadelphia is reported to have said that 'sugar
contains more nutrients in the same bulk than any other known
substance'." (Emphasis added.) At the same time, the same Dr Rush was
preaching that masturbation was the cause of insanity! If a weasel-
worded statement like that was quoted, one can be sure no animal
doctor could be found in Britain who would recommend sugar for the
care and feeding of cows, pigs or sheep.
While preparing his epochal volume, A History of Nutrition, published
in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University),
sometimes called America's foremost nutritionist and certainly a
pioneer in the field, reviewed approximately 200,000 published
scientific papers, ...
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