Added Sugar Toxic Addictive

ADDED-SUGAR IS BAD NEWS

Articles by or compiled by Reza Ganjavi

2021 Update

These are article / notes / news I collected or wrote a long time ago. This file is not updated or maintained.

My current attitude about the topic:

1) Added sugar is bad news. It screws up the hormones, the brain, and it’s been proven to be toxic and addictive.

2) I hate caffeine. I rarely take very dark chocolate for antioxidant effect when I’m in a heavy EMF polluted area but hate the feeling of chemical rush it gives to my metabolism / heart / body. I prefer being naturally stimulated by life.

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About Sugar, Chocolate, Snacks

Dear Florence

Well sugar and chocolate is a long story.

I love chocolate - it has some benefits too but I derive the same benefits from other forms of anti-oxidants because I don't like

a) the caffeine -- causes stress

b) the sugar -- is bad news... disrupts the pituitary gland which is the mother gland and controls the entire hormonal system. Sugar is necessary for the brain but not the form "added sugar" -- a much healthier version is derived when we eat fruits for example.

I tried some really high quality chocolate not long ago. I LOVE the taste of chocolate and can eat kilos of it BUT I do NOT at all like how it makes me feel after the pleasure of eating it is gone :)

I eat snacks but not anything with added sugar. It's so easy to snack on very healthy things like dried fruits, and tons of other products available that are organic, vegetarian, and don't have added sugar.

Sugar is cheap and addictive so food manufacturers love it.

I suppose for most people it's good to be moderate and not over-do it. I don't do it at all. I hate caffeine which makes me chemically stimulated -- I'm naturally stimulated by life, love, beauty, nature, music etc. -- and when I'm chemically stimulated it feels so unnatural -- like having a sense of urgency, a rush, in your stomach without having any urgent thing to deal with. That makes me unsettled and my usual firm grounding (which comes from living without fear, without anxiety, with a quiet mind, and a somewhat well taken care of body) gets soft which I don't like.

So I can't tell you not to eat chocolate -- you do what you want -- but if you ask me, I'd suggest taking a break from everything that has added sugar for a couple of weeks or better, a month. This way you drop the sugar addiction and the very strong impact sugar has on the brain and entire body, and THEN, when you eat sugar you really feel how:

- it disrupts blood sugar level - with periods of high and low/tired periods (which is a drag)

- it puts jolts in the energy body which can almost be seen

- it depletes B vitamins from cells

- it has a strong bad aftertaste which people who consume it regularly don't feel

- etc.

It might be worth the experiment :)

Here's a great video. You can search more on youtube on sugar addiction and harms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Good luck!

Reza Ganjavi

Sugar is a HUGE market worldwide. Food companies love sugar because it's cheap and it's addictive. It messes up the hormonal system, lowers B-vitamins in cell, makes energy level fluctuate, leads to obesity and diabetes. Key message is: DON'T BUY ANYTHING WITH ADDED SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, EVAPORATED CANE JUICE, RAW SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR, etc.

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Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say

http://news.yahoo.com/sugar-regulated-toxin-researchers-180605186.html

A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of the journal Nature by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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Dec 2012 -- She asked how do you stop eating sugar

By Reza Ganjavi

you read everything you buy - the label says things like evaporated cane juice etc

then for a month or few weeks try not to eat anything with added sugar

if you feel sugar craving eat dried fruit - fruit - or even a spoon of raw unfiltered honey (can get from wholefoods).

then after you have sugar you'll feel the bitter aftertaste and fluctuation in energy level and other effects.

good luck

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Fresh fears raised about aspartame

Manufacturers dispute study into lab rats fed sweetener

Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent

The Guardian

The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing "as a matter of high priority" the results of a large new study into aspartame, the artificial sweetener consumed by millions of people worldwide and used in more than 6,000 food and drink products.

Researchers at the Ramazzini Institute for cancer research in Italy say their study shows that aspartame causes lymphomas and leukaemia in female laboratory animals "at doses very close to the acceptable daily intake for humans". The authors of the study also say that while rats fed aspartame ate less food, there was no difference in body weight between treated and untreated animals.

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Aspartame promotes grand mal seizures, say health experts

by Dani Veracity

A nursing infant developed convulsions after his mother drank an aspartame-sweetened soft drink. A 19-year-old woman went into grand mal convulsions within minutes of chewing a piece of aspartame-flavored gum. A small amount of toxin can push the human body into near-fatal conditions, regardless of whether the toxin is considered "safe" and sold on grocery and convenience store shelves around the world. Aspartame, the artificial sweetener that often flavors sugar-free drinks and foods, has been known to induce convulsions and grand mal seizures in certain individuals.

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Adult-onset diabetes, which afflicts 17 million Americans, is caused by the body either becoming resistant to insulin or not producing enough of it.

"Rates of diabetes are skyrocketing. At the same time, over the last couple of decades, consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has increased," said Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, one of the authors of a study examining the link.

Between 1977 and 1997, U.S. soft drink consumption rose 61 percent among adults and more than doubled among children, the study said. The increased incidence of diabetes has also paralleled the growing obesity epidemic, the report said.

"Soft drinks are the leading source of added sugar in the American diet. They provide a large amount of excess calories and no nutritional value," said Matthias Schulze, the study's lead author.

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Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO

The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.

The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.

In a letter to Gro Harlem Brundtland, the WHO's director general, the Sugar Association says it will "exercise every avenue available to expose the dubious nature" of the WHO's report on diet and nutrition, including challenging its $406m (£260m) funding from the US.

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http://www.sugar.org/facts/types.html

Note on the use of sugar and honey

How sugar is made. Most sugar sold in grocery stores is made from beets or sugarcane. The sugarcane plant is cut, crushed to release juice, and then boiled into syrup. This syrup is then processed to make the final sugar product (molasses, white sugar, turbinado sugar, confectioner's sugar, brown sugar, etc). To make white sugar white, the liquid sugar syrup is filtered through a charcoal or chemical resin filter. After this, the sugar is granulated: that is, crystallized and milled into homogenous grains. Sometimes, cheap varieties of "brown sugar" are made from refined white sugar with molasses added back in. Confectioner's sugar is white sugar ground to a powder.

Refined Sweeteners

Also indexed as: Beet Sugar, Brown Sugar, Cane Sugar, Confectioner’s Sugar, Corn Syrup, Demerera, Dextrose, Granulated Sugar, Grape Sugar, Molasses, Muscavado Sugar, Raw Sugar, Refined Sugar, Sucrose, Table Sugar, Turbinado Sugar, White Sugar

Sugar is the number-one food additive in the United States.

Immune function - Nearly all forms of sugar (including honey) interfere with the ability of white blood cells to destroy bacteria.

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ASPARTAME??? NO! NEIN! NON! NIX! NJET! OXI!

(Think MIGRAINES, MEMORY LOSS, SEIZURES, OBESITY, PAIN, INFERTILITY

92 FDA listed symptoms INCLUDING DEATH!)

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A few words by Dr. Julian Whitaker on the FDA's

STEVIA BOOK BURNINGS

Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood pressure. Despite its centuries-old use without reported toxicity in Latin America and Asia, including Japan, the FDA decided in 1991 that Stevia was an unsafe food additive and ordered all imports seized. The U.S. sugar industry breathed easier, and the market for non-caloric sweeteners was made once more safe for the chemical producers. The consumer was left with the choice of the empty calories of sugar, or the high side effects of the chemical substitutes.

To the rescue, the 1994 DSHEA legislation gave the (previous) leading importer of Stevia enough leverage to place a legal Hobson's choice before the FDA: Admit Stevia was safe (which would expose the food additive market) or admit it as a previously-sold dietary supplement with no evidence of toxicity. The FDA took the line of least resistance and declared it admissible as a dietary supplement, but not as a food additive. When the cheering of the sugar industry and the producers of Nutrasweet and Sweet'N Low dies down, it will be interesting to see how the FDA can maintain that a natural product deemed safe as a supplement can be unsafe as a food additive, especially for a market dominated by notoriously high side-effect chemical products.

Sidebar "Stevia Leaf - Too Good To Be Legal?" article.

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Gradually reduce or eliminate:

White Sugar

Brown Sugar -- Brown sugar is usually white sugar mixed with molasses or sprayed with caramel coloring.

Raw Sugar -- Raw sugar is often white sugar with coloring.

Fructose -- Betware the "natural" products with fructose.

It's not much better than white sugar (IMO).

Corn Syrup

Dextrose

Artificial Sweeteners (Nutrasweet (aspartame), Equal,

Spoonful, Sunette (Acesulfame-k), Splenda (Sucralose),

Sweetener 2000), Neotame

MORE ON SPLENDA (Source Mark Gold)

Animal research has shown up to 40% shrinkage in thymus glands, caecal

enlargement and renal mineralization.

Stevia rebaudiana is a plant native to northeastern Paraguay

Nutritional and Medicinal Uses, by Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D. ("Life with Stevia: How Sweet It Is!")

What Doctor's Are Saying About Stevia

Castleweb on stevia and diabetes

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TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES

ASPARTAME: An artificial sweetener (Nutrasweet and Equal are some brand names). The University of Arizona says it causes seizures in humans. The University of Washington says it causes brain tumors in humans.

BUTTER YELLOW: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test animals.

CARRAGEENAN: A thickening agent. Causes ulcers in guinea pigs.

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL (DES): Used to fatten steers. Causes cancer in test animals. Many countries do not permit the importation of beef from the United States because of diethylstilbestrol contamination.

HERBICIDES: Used to destroy weeds and undergrowth. Cause miscarriages, chromosome damage, congenital deformities and birth defects in humans. The National Cancer Institute classifies herbicides as carcinogens.

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG): A flavor enhancer. (Accent is a brand name). Produces brain lesions in newborn rats. In humans, it causes headaches, asthma, chest pain, heart palpitations, burning sensation, swelling stomachs, dizziness, weakness and excessive sleeping; and to immature infants, irreversible brain damage. There are food additives that have hidden sources of monosodium glutamate. MSG is always contained in hydrolyzed protein or hydrolyzed vegetable protein; and can be contained in autolyzed yeast, sodium caseinate and natural flavor(s) or natural flavoring(s).

NITRATES: Artificial color enhancers and chemical fertilizers. Destroy vitamins A and E and cause cancer in mice. By being changed into nitrites within the gastrointestinal tract, have caused the deaths of infants by reacting with the red color in blood cells and preventing them from carrying oxygen. By being changed into nitrosamines in the body, can produce cancers in many organs of a wide variety of species. As fertilizers, nitrates destroy or decrease the vitamin C content of plants.

PESTICIDES: DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE (DDT) A powerful insecticide. It is continuously used in the United States on strawberries and most imported fruits and vegetables. Even more toxic are ALDRIN, DIELDRIN, ENDRIN and THIODAN.

RED DYE NUMBER ONE: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test animals.

SACCHARIN: An artificial sweetener. Causes tumors in test animals.

In order to extend the shelf life of their products, manufacturers remove or inactivate essential fatty acids by using chemical processes that render their food products harmful to the body. These harmful fats go by a number of names, including “hydrogenated”, “partially hydrogenated” and even “polyunsaturated”.

“THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION [FDA] HAS DECIDED TO ALLOW TINY AMOUNTS OF CANCER CAUSING SUBSTANCES IN FOOD.”

Discover, January 1986

“ASPARTAME, THE LOW CALORIE SUGAR SUBSTITUTE MARKETED AS NUTRASWEET AND EQUAL, CAN CAUSE SKIN HIVES AND SWELLING OF THROAT TISSUE, ACCORDING TO A MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN SAINT LOUIS.” Science News, June 28, 1986

“NUTRASWEET LINKED TO CONFUSION AND MEMORY LOSS.”

“STUDIES CONDUCTED BY G. D. SEARLE, THE CREATOR OF NUTRASWEET, AND SUBMITTED TO THE FDA [FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION] SHOW THAT ASPARTAME MAY INDUCE BRAIN TUMORS IN RATS. LATER MEDICAL STUDIES AND REPORTS TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SUGGEST THAT ASPARTAME MAY CAUSE A HOST OF SIDE EFFECTS IN HUMANS RANGING FROM HEADACHES TO SEIZURES. FURTHER, RECENT RESEARCH INTO DIET AND BRAIN CHEMISTRY INDICATES THAT ASPARTAME DOES NOTHING TO CONTROL WEIGHT; AND, IN FACT, MAY ACTUALLY HEIGHTEN APPETITE.” Technology Review, January 1990

“METHODS FOR PREVENTING HEADACHES INCLUDE EATING AT LEAST EVERY SIX HOURS AND AVOIDING FOODS CONTAINING AMINES, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE AND ASPARTAME.”

Ladies Home Journal, September 1996

“MSG [MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE] HAS A REPUTATION AS A SERIOUS ALLERGEN THAT CAN CAUSE HEADACHES AND INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.” Maclean’s, October 27, 1997

“SENSITIVITY TO MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE CAN CAUSE HEADACHE, FLUSHING AND INTESTINAL UPSET.” British Medical Journal, April 25, 1998

“THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON RESUME TESTING MEAT FOR THE ILLEGAL HORMONE DES [DIETHYLSTILBESTROL] AFTER SWISS HEALTH INSPECTORS REPORTED FINDING TRACES OF IT IN IMPORTED AMERICAN BEEF.”

“CAN DIET THERAPY RELIEVE FIBROMYALGIA? IN A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES, FLORIDA RESEARCHERS REPORTED DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN PATIENTS WHO ELIMINATED MSG [MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE], ASPARTAME, FOOD ADDITIVES, AND/OR A VARIETY OF ALLERGENS.”

Contemporary OB/GYN

“ASPARTAME IS AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER THAT CAN LEAD TO CHRONIC DEGENERATIVE ILLNESSES OR ACUTE HEALTH PROBLEMS. IT DESTROYS NEURONS (NERVE CELLS) AND CAN CONTRIBUTE TO BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS. IF YOU VALUE YOUR EYESIGHT, STOP USING ASPARTAME. EATING LARGE QUANTITIES CAN LEAD TO DEGENERATIVE BRAIN DISORDERS SUCH AS ALZHEIMER’S, PARKINSON’S, HUNTINGTON’S AND ALS [AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS].”

Women’s Health Letter, November 2002

TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES

by Robert A. Kroboth www.citizengadfly.com

Please print and distribute copies of this publication.

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SS: I used to have...... Since I stopped eating sugar I seldom have it.

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Experts: No Benefit to Reduced-Sugar Cereal

By J.M. HIRSCH, Associated Press Writer

Could this be the end of cereal aisle showdowns between parents and sweet-toothed tots? New reduced-sugar versions of popular children's breakfast cereals — everything from Froot Loops to Frosted Flakes — certainly sound promising, but consumers might want to hold off chiming in when Tony the Tiger says, "They're Gr-r-reat!"

Experts who reviewed the lower-sugar versions of six major brands of sweetened cereals at the request of The Associated Press found they have no significant nutritional advantages over their full-sugar counterparts.

Nutrition scientists at five universities found that while the new cereals do have less sugar, the calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber and other nutrients are almost identical to the full-sugar cereals. That's because the cereal makers have replaced sugar with refined carbohydrates to preserve the crunch.

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Rat Studies Show Evidence of 'Sugar Dependence'

TORONTO (Reuters Health) - Could many of us be slaves to our sweet

tooth? New research in rats suggests that the brain can become dependent, if

not outright addicted, to sugars in food.

``The brain has opioid compounds and they seem to be released by palatable

tastes such as sugar, fat, ice cream, cake,'' explained Dr. Bart Hoebel, a

researcher at Princeton University.

The result? Compared with rats fed regular chow, sugar-fed rats developed

``mild'' symptoms indicative of withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering, an

increased frequency of high-pitched crying and anxiety. And when

researchers allowed these rats renewed access to sugar they

``binged''--consuming up to 30% of their daily sugar intake within the first

hour of re-introduction.

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Excess blood sugar may boost free-radical production

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Excess sugar in the blood appears to

increase the production of free radicals--byproducts of normal metabolism

that have been linked to aging and heart disease, US researchers report.

High sugar levels trigger increased free-radical production by white

blood cells, leading to arterial damage and blocked arteries, the authors note.

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A friend food scientist working for major cereal company said 45% of breakfast cerels is sugar. There are ongoing projects to increase sugar level because sugar is cheap and you can sell it at the price of cereal, and in consumer tests people always prefer the sweeter samples.

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hey thanks for the stuff,,,i will read it and study it don't know if i'll stop

using it,,,my body needs it,,,,i want it,,,,and it is of course sugar,,,,now will

i read it with bias yes yes indeed,,,,as i sit here eating just rice...oopppsss

jeff just gave me some choc cake,,,,uh i guess i will eat that too,,,,,thanks for

the pictures i'm looking for a women with a vail,,,,tmac

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Hello Reza,

thanks for you mail : Long ago I read a book by Gloria Swanson's husband

(I don't recall his name right now) titled SUGAR BLUES. In this book he

explained that sugar is a drug leading to addiction, hallucinations like

every other drug (diabetes f.i.). He said that the sugar business is

the most important drug business on earth ; also that the American are

as a population in the pre-diabetic state. He says that pratically all

our non-fresh food is 'tainted' with sugar, even cigaret leaves are

hauled through a sugar-fumes tunnel before being put into their boxes.

He himself was sick until far in his fourties I think it was, and at

last he got the idea that maybe sugar was at the base of his misery. So

he examined his fridge and had to throw almost everything away. He

started to eat without sugar and had a weird withdrawal symptom : he got

all his illnesses (colds, arthirtis, pain in the bones etc) in rapid

succession and less severe, and they cured spontaneously. Since then he

was never ill again ; by now he must have died of old age.

So I think the new findings are an educated version of his findings,

very interesting and serious.

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Kind regards from Magda (S.)

REFINED SUGAR

The Sweetest Poison of All

A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly linked to the consuming of 'pure', refined sugar.

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Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1.

PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.com

Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381

From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

from: http://www.nexusmagazine.com/SugarBlues.html (reprinted w/ permission)

Extracted/edited from his book Sugar Blues

First published by Chilton Book Co. Padnor, PA, USA

Currently published by Warner Books, USA.

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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.

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.

CORRECT FOOD COMBINING

Whether it's sugared cereal or pastry and black coffee for breakfast, whether it's hamburgers and Coca-Cola for lunch or the full "gourmet" dinner in the evening, chemically the average American diet is a formula that guarantees bubble, bubble, stomach trouble.

Unless you've taken too much insulin and, in a state of insulin shock, need sugar as an antidote, hardly anyone ever has cause to take sugar alone. Humans need sugar as much as they need the nicotine in tobacco. Crave it is one thing-need it is another. From the days of the Persian Empire to our own, sugar has usually been used to hop up the flavour of other food and drink, as an ingredient in the kitchen or as a condiment at the table. Let us leave aside for the moment the known effect of sugar (long-term and short-term) on the entire system and concentrate on the effect of sugar taken in combination with other daily foods.

When Grandma warned that sugared cookies before meals "will spoil your supper", she knew what she was talking about. Her explanation might not have satisfied a chemist but, as with many traditional axioms from the Mosaic law on kosher food and separation in the kitchen, such rules are based on years of trial and error and are apt to be right on the button. Most modern research in combining food is a laboured discovery of the things Grandma took for granted.

SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH

In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the transition from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one historian calls it, 10 began in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms of the "sugar blues".

Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics-anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work of street sweeping in return for royal favours.

Editor's Note:

This article is extracted and edited from the book, Sugar Blues , © 1975 by William Dufty; specifically, the chapters "In Sugar We Trust", "Dead Dogs and Englishmen" and "What the Specialists Say". The book was first published by the Chilton Book Company, Padnor, PA, USA. Warner Books, Inc., NY, published an edition in 1976 and reissued it in April 1993.

The book is currently published by Warner (USA) as a paperback. Ask for it at your local bookstore, or order it online.

From: http://www.prosperityplace.com/bdy_mind/bldsgar.html

Your Energy System

An Excerpt from Nourish Yourself

by Joan Sotkin

Because blood sugar is the basic fuel used by your body-mind to power all of the chemical reactions that take place in your cells, and because an imbalance in this system can lead to so many disorders, I am going to briefly explain how the system works so that you can better understand it. If you understand the relationship between the food you eat and how you feel, you may be more apt to use the foods your body-mind needs to restore and maintain health.

YOU NEED GLUCOSE

Your body-mind needs certain nutrients in order to function properly including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, hormones and water. One of the most important nutrients that it needs is glucose, or blood sugar, which is the basic source of fuel for energy for your body-mind. Without glucose, none of the reactions within your cells can take place.

Because all of your cells need glucose to power all of their chemical reactions, when there is not enough glucose, there is not enough energy for your life. Your body-mind will still work, but the reactions in the cells will be incomplete and, as a result, you might feel tired or lethargic or you might notice that certain body-mind functions just are not quite right.

For example, you may not be able to concentrate or make decisions, or your memory may not be sharp because your brain cells are not receiving enough fuel. Or, perhaps, you may feel weak or dizzy or shaky inside.

It might seem logical to say that if your cells need glucose, perhaps you should eat more sugar. Actually, this will provide your body-mind with glucose. That is why, after eating sugar, you feel a spurt of energy as the sugar is used by your cells.

However, as you will see, the long term use of sugar can cause a severe strain on the delicate glands that regulate blood sugar levels and, in the long run, can cause blood sugar levels to fluctuate erratically.

When this happens, the results can be disastrous. Because the health of your entire being is determined by the health of your cells, if your cells are not functioning properly, neither can you.

When cells do not function properly over a long period of time, this can lead to a breakdown in the cellular structure which allows for the invasion of foreign organisms, such as viruses and bacteria, and for the proliferation of mutant cells such as cancer cells.

Also, because glucose is used in every body-mind process, if there is not enough glucose, the body-mind's self-repair system also cannot function efficiently. It becomes more difficult to resist disease or to repair damages such as cuts, bruises, or broken bones.

It would be simplistic to say that a malfunctioning blood sugar system is the only cause for discomfort or dis-ease. However, if the blood sugar system is not functioning efficiently, then nothing else can work properly either. Therefore, if, like most people, you have stressed your blood sugar system, then by focusing on regulating your blood sugar levels, you can help yourself to better health, both physically and emotionally.

PARTS OF THE SYSTEM

First I will describe the different parts of your blood sugar system and how they interact to regulate your body-mind's energy supply. Then, we will look at what can go wrong. I hope this will help you understand why sugar, caffeine, alcohol, refined carbohydrates, and nicotine can have such a devastating effect on your health.

There are four glands which, along with your liver, regulate blood sugar levels. They are:The hypothalamus, pituitary, pancreas and adrenal glands.

THE HYPOTHALAMUS

The hypothalamus is a small portion of your brain that acts as the body-mind's laboratory, measuring all of the body-mind's functions on a 24 hour basis. When anything is out of balance, the hypothalamus sends a nerve message to the pituitary gland, signaling the pituitary as to what needs correcting.

THE PITUITARY

Touch the bridge of your nose. Behind this, in your mid-brain, is your pituitary gland. This amazing gland is only about the size of a pea, yet it affects more functions than any other gland. It is called "the master gland" because it helps regulate all of the other glands.

When the hypothalamus sends its nerve message to the pituitary, the pituitary alters this nerve message into a chemical message, i.e. a hormone, which is sent to the gland or organ that can correct the condition that is out of balance.

When blood sugar levels are too high or too low, the hormonal message is sent either to the pancreas or to the adrenal glands.

THE PANCREAS

Put your hand on the center of your abdomen just above your navel. Right about there, towards the back of your abdominal cavity is your pancreas.

The pancreas is shaped like a bunch of grapes on its side. Enzymes which are used in the digestion of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, as well as insulin, which is used for many metabolic processes, are produced in the pancreas. Scattered throughout the gland and concentrated in its tip, are a group of cells called the Islets of Langerhans. These are the cells that secrete insulin.

Insulin has many functions and one of them is to carry glucose across the cell membrane into the cell where it can be used for fuel. This, in effect, lowers blood sugar levels because the glucose is taken from the blood into the cell.

Whenever there is an excess of glucose in the blood, insulin is secreted and whatever glucose can be utilized is taken into the cells by the insulin. Then, whatever excess glucose remains is converted into glycogen and stored in the liver and muscles. When blood sugar levels fall too low, the glycogen is converted back to glucose and sent into the blood stream. Insulin is used for the glucose to glycogen and glycogen to glucose conversions.

The cells of your body-mind only need about two teaspoons of glucose at any one time in order to perform all of the body-mind's functions. Imagine how hard the pancreas must work to balance the system when two or three times the amount needed is brought into the blood stream.

When refined carbohydrates are eaten, sugar is rapidly released into the blood stream and it must be used immediately or stored as glycogen. A chocolate bar contains about 6 teaspoons, and a piece of chocolate layer cake about 15 teaspoons of sugar. Each time foods such as these are eaten, the pancreas is stimulated to produce more insulin.

THE ADRENALS

Place your hands on the small of your back on each side of your spine. Your kidneys are here and perched on top of each kidney is a small gland called the adrenal. The gland is divided into two parts: the outer portion is called the cortex and the inner portion is called the medulla.

The adrenals produce many hormones which affect body-mind functions, such as cortisone, aldosterone, and cortisol, but the hormone that most affects blood sugar levels is adrenaline, which is produced in the adrenal medulla.

Adrenaline is known as the fight or flight hormone because it is secreted whenever there is a stress reaction or whenever negative emotions such as guilt, anger, or worry are experienced. Stress reactions can be either emotional, such as coping with job pressures, or physical, such as pain or injury. Caffeine and nicotine also stimulate adrenaline production.

When adrenaline is secreted, it signals the liver to convert glycogen, the stored form of blood sugar, into glucose, which is then sent into the blood stream, thus raising blood sugar levels.

THE LIVER

Your liver is located on the right side of your body-mind, under your rib cage. It is the largest organ by weight and is responsible for many body-mind processes. The liver acts as a metabolic factory, converting foods into glucose, glucose into glycogen, and glycogen back to glucose. The liver also filters the blood, produces bile, and causes important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood.

A HEALTHY SYSTEM

When everything in the blood sugar system is working smoothly, there is a steady supply of fuel for the cells. This fuel, glucose, is produced from food sources and from the glycogen which is stored in the liver and muscles.

The hypothalamus monitors the system and when blood sugar levels are too high or too low, a nerve message is sent to the pituitary gland which then sends a hormonal message to either the adrenal glands or the pancreas.

If blood sugar levels are too low, the adrenal glands send out adrenaline which triggers the liver to convert some of its glycogen (stored glucose) into glucose. Then, with the help of insulin from the pancreas, the glucose is taken into the cells where it is used.

If blood sugar levels are too high, the pancreas secretes insulin which carries the excess glucose into the cells where it is used. Whatever glucose can not be used is converted into glycogen and stored in the liver and muscles.

THE UPS AND DOWNS

Blood sugar levels are lowered when glucose that is in the blood stream is taken into the cells and utilized. Any life activity requires glucose, so just being alive uses up the glucose.

Blood sugar levels drop too low when too much insulin is secreted, thus removing too much glucose from the blood stream, or when not enough glycogen is available to replace the glucose that is used.

Blood sugar levels are raised every time you eat and the food is converted into glucose or when the liver releases some of its glycogen and it is converted into glucose.

When you eat protein or fats, the blood sugar enters the blood stream at a slow and steady pace because these foods are digested slowly. Carbohydrate foods, on the other hand, are digested more rapidly and the glucose is sent out more quickly.

Fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes have varying amounts of carbohydrates in different forms. Grapes and watermelon, for example, contain more sucrose (which is like table sugar) than apples or lettuce, and potatoes and beans contain more starch than broccoli or peaches. However, all carbohydrates from whole, natural foods, i.e. complex carbohydrates, are contained in a matrix, such as cellulose, which must be removed before the sugar or starch can be sent out into the blood stream.

On the other hand, refined, processed foods which contain sugar or starch, are converted rapidly into blood sugar. Candy, desserts, ice-cream, sugar and other sugar foods cause a flooding of the blood stream with sugar as it passes right through the wall of the small intestine into the blood stream, dramatically raising blood sugar levels. Most Group 4 Foods [junk food, sweets....] cause this reaction.

Blood sugar levels are also raised every time the body-mind is put on alert or under stress, causing the release of adrenaline. Caffeine and nicotine also stimulate adrenaline production, thus raising blood sugar levels.

IT CAN MALFUNCTION

Because the body-mind only needs about two teaspoons of glucose at any one time, each time you eat a food that is high in sugar or starch, the body-mind must take dramatic steps to remove the excess sugar. A large supply of insulin is released allowing the sugar to be taken to the cells and used, which is why you get a spurt of energy from high carbohydrate foods.

It is important to understand that many natural foods, such as rice, beans, and potatoes, that are considered complex carbohydrates contain enough sugar and starch to overburden some blood sugar systems.

If extra sugar come into the body-mind only once a day or on rare occasions, the system could handle the overload without any strain. However, because of the constant onslaught of sugar and high carbohydrate foods that most people consume, the pancreas is overworked and oversensitized and sends out erratic or insufficient amounts of insulin.

As a result, you might experience ups and downs during the day as blood sugar levels fluctuate erratically. A spurt of energy can be followed by a let-down a few hours later because the pancreas is sending out too much insulin. Or, you may experience fatigue, irritability, weakness, or other symptoms because your cells are not receiving adequate fuel. When your cells do not have enough energy, neither do you.

A malfunction in the liver can also adversely affect blood sugar levels. Such a malfunction can be created when excessive amounts of chemical residues must be filtered from the blood. Excess residues can become lodged in the tissues of the liver, thus interfering with glucose and glycogen production. The offending chemicals can come from foods, drugs, and environmental pollutants.

Your adrenal glands can also become exhausted, thus creating an imbalance in the blood sugar system. As you have seen, adrenaline is sent out every time the body-mind is put on alert and every time a negative emotion is experienced. Because of the nature of our society, adrenaline is constantly being secreted and the average person who has to drive in traffic, work under any kind of pressure, deal with the pressures of family life, and who smokes, drinks coffee, eats refined carbohydrates, and drinks alcohol places his or her glands under a tremendous amount of stress and strain.

When the adrenal glands are overworked, they produce insufficient or erratic amounts of adrenaline and other important hormones. This can cause many disorders including fatigue, nervousness, anxiety, and some "itis" disorders.

YOU CAN FIX IT

As you can see, if you have eaten Group 4 Foods for long periods of time and if, like most people, you are subjected to stress, your blood sugar system is probably somewhat out of balance. Group 4 Foods and stress also affect other body-mind systems which is why they cause such a wide range of symptoms.

But, blood sugar levels can be regulated and cellular chemistry can be brought back into balance by resting the glands and giving them a chance to heal. This can be done by eliminating the cause of the problem, i.e., Group 4 Foods and stress reactions.

However, it takes time to establish a healthy communication with your body-mind. It also takes time to develop the discipline that is needed to replace destructive eating habits with those that will help your body-mind repair itself.

The suggestions offered in this Nourish Yourself are meant to help you point yourself in a new direction and to give you a basic plan of action concerning changes you can make in order to create a more comfortable life for yourself. I hope you find something here that stimulates you to begin to develop an awareness about how you nourish yourself and the quality of fuel that you use to power your life.

Sugar

"Sugar is without question one of the most dangerous substances on the food market today.

What we are talking about here is sucrose, the white crystalline sugar refined from cane or beet juice by stripping away all its vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, water, and other synergists.

White sugar is an industrially processed chemical not found in nature, and it is not fit for human consumption.

Other sugars such as fructose (in fruit and honey), lactose (in milk), and maltose (in grains) are natural substances with nutritional value.

Raw sugar is a coarse, brown, sticky variety made by simply boiling down whole cane juice and it too is a wholesome food, but it is very difficult to find in the Western world.

The so called 'brown sugar' sold in supermarkets is nothing more than refined white sugar with some molasses spun back into it for color and flavor. It is not a 'health food'.

Sugar suppresses the immune system by causing the pancreas to secrete abnormally large quantities of insulin, which is required to break it down.

Insulin remains in circulation in the bloodstream long after sugar has been metabolized, and one of its main side effects is to suppress the release of growth hormone in the pituitary gland.

Growth hormone is a primary regulator of the immune system, so anyone who eats a lot of sugar every day is going to experience critical growth hormone deficiency and consequent immune deficiency caused by the constant presence of insulin in the bloodstream.

Furthermore, refined white sugar is treated as a toxic foreign agent by the immune system, owing to its unnatural chemical structure as well as the industrial contaminants it retains from the refining process.

Sugar thus triggers an unnecessary immune response while simultaneously suppressing immune function, thereby debilitating the immune system with a double edged sword.

Sugar is the chief culprit in many diseases and degenerative conditions.

It can easily cause diabetes and is a major factor in candidacies, both of which are epidemic in the industrialized Western world.

Since sugar is 'nutritionally naked', the body must 'borrow' the missing vitamins, minerals and other synergistic nutrients required to metabolize sugar from its own tissues.

Heavy sugar consumption therefore causes a constant siphoning of nutrients from the body. Recent evidence suggests that sugar causes dental problems not so much by contact with the teeth but rather by leaching the teeth of calcium from within.

Sugar also depletes the body of potassium and magnesium, which are required for proper cardiac function, and is therefore a major factor in heart disease.

The nutritional leaching caused by sugar can give rise to intense food cravings and eating binges, as the body seeks to replenish the nutrients 'stolen' from it by sugar.

Most people consume far more sugar than their bodies can possibly use for energy. When this happens, the liver converts the extra sugar into molecules called triglycerides and stores it as fat, or else produces cholesterol from the by-products of sugar and deposits it in veins and arteries. Sugar is thus a major factor in obesity and arteriosclerosis as well.

Sugar is an addictive substance. In Sugar Blues, William Dufty writes; 'The difference between sugar addiction and narcotic addiction is largely one of degree.'

Abruptly giving up sugar invariably brings on the sort of withdrawal symptoms associated with narcotic drugs- fatigue, lassitude, depression, moodiness, headaches, aching limbs.

Its addictive nature is also reflected in current per capita consumption in the USA- an average of 130 pounds of sugar per person per year, or about 1/3 pound daily. That qualifies as 'substance abuse'. Most people don't even realize how much sugar they're taking every day because much of it is hidden in other foods.

A 12-ounce can of a typical soft drink, for example, contains about nine teaspoons of refined white sugar.

Sugar consumption in the USA is so high that it has also caused a social problem through its deleterious effects on behavior, especially in children, who are displaying increasingly severe behavioral disorders and learning disabilities.

In a recent study conducted by Dr. C. Keith Connors of the Children's Hospital in Washington, DC, a 'deadly' link was established between the consumption of sugar with carbohydrates (such as breakfast cereal, cake, and biscuits) and violent behavior, hypertension, and learning impediments.

In other studies, chronic violence in prisons was remarkably reduced simply by eliminating refined sugar and starch from prison diets. Singapore in 1991 banned sugary soft drink sales from all schools and youth centers, citing the danger that sugar poses to the mental and physical health of children.

If you or your children have a sweet tooth, you can easily satisfy it by concocting treats with honey, molasses, and barley malt, which are not only sweet but also nutritious and therapeutically beneficial."

Source: Daniel Reid.

From: Endocrinology Health Guide

The Pituitary Gland

Anatomy of the pituitary gland:

The pituitary gland is sometimes called the "master" gland of the endocrine system, because it controls the functions of the other endocrine glands. The pituitary gland is no larger than a pea, and is located at the base of the brain. The gland is attached to the hypothalumus (a part of the brain that affects the pituitary gland) by nerve fibers. The pituitary gland itself consists of three sections:

* the anterior lobe

* the intermediate lobe

* the posterior lobe

Functions of the pituitary gland:

Each lobe of the pituitary gland produces certain hormones.

anterior lobe:

* growth hormone

* prolactin - to stimulate milk production after giving birth

* ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) - to stimulate the adrenal glands

* TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) - to stimulate the thyroid gland

* FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone) - to stimulate the ovaries and testes

* LH (luteinizing hormone) - to stimulate the ovaries or testes

intermediate lobe:

* melanocyte-stimulating hormone - to control skin pigmentation

posterior lobe:

* ADH (antidiuretic hormone) - to increase absorption of water into the blood

by the kidneys

* oxytocin - to contract the uterus during childbirth and stimulate milk production

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Quotes from various downloaded sugar-related articles and news

Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say

http://news.yahoo.com/sugar-regulated-toxin-researchers-180605186.html

A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

She asked how do you stop eating sugar

you read everything you buy - the label says things like evaporated cane juice etc

then for a month or few weeks try not to eat anything with added sugar

if you feel sugar craving eat dried fruit - fruit - or even a spoon of raw unfiltered honey (can get from wholefoods).

then after you have sugar you'll feel the bitter aftertaste and fluctuation in energy level and other effects.

good luck

Fresh fears raised about aspartame

Manufacturers dispute study into lab rats fed sweetener

Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent

The Guardian

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Aspartame promotes grand mal seizures, say health experts

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Adult-onset diabetes, which afflicts 17 million Americans, is caused by the body either becoming resistant to insulin or not producing enough of it.

"Soft drinks are the leading source of added sugar in the American diet. They provide a large amount of excess calories and no nutritional value," said Matthias Schulze, the study's lead author.

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Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO

Sarah Boseley, health editor

The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.

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http://www.sugar.org/facts/types.html

Note on the use of sugar and honey

Refined Sweeteners

Sugar is the number-one food additive in the United States.

Immune function - Nearly all forms of sugar (including honey) interfere with the ability of white blood cells to destroy bacteria.

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ASPARTAME??? NO! NEIN! NON! NIX! NJET! OXI!

(Think MIGRAINES, MEMORY LOSS, SEIZURES, OBESITY, PAIN, INFERTILITY

92 FDA listed symptoms INCLUDING DEATH!)

(07/98) A few words by Dr. Julian Whitaker on the FDA's

STEVIA BOOK BURNINGS

Sidebar "Stevia Leaf - Too Good To Be Legal?" article.

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Gradually reduce or eliminate:

White Sugar

Brown Sugar -- Brown sugar is usually white sugar mixed

with molasses or sprayed with caramel coloring.

Raw Sugar -- Raw sugar is often white sugar with coloring.

Fructose -- Betware the "natural" products with fructose.

It's not much better than white sugar (IMO).

Corn Syrup

Dextrose

Artificial Sweeteners (Nutrasweet (aspartame), Equal,

Spoonful, Sunette (Acesulfame-k), Splenda (Sucralose)) Neotame

MORE ON SPLENDA (5/28/97 Source Mark Gold)

Animal research has shown up to 40% shrinkage in thymus glands, caecal

enlargement and renal mineralization.

Stevia rebaudiana is a plant native to northeastern Paraguay

Nutritional and Medicinal Uses, by Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D. ("Life with Stevia: How Sweet It Is!")

What Doctor's Are Saying About Stevia

Castleweb on stevia and diabetes

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TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES

BUTTER YELLOW: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test animals.

CARRAGEENAN: A thickening agent. Causes ulcers in guinea pigs.

RED DYE NUMBER ONE: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test animals.

SACCHARIN: An artificial sweetener. Causes tumors in test animals.

“THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION [FDA] HAS DECIDED TO ALLOW TINY AMOUNTS OF CANCER CAUSING SUBSTANCES IN FOOD.”

Discover, January 1986

“NUTRASWEET LINKED TO CONFUSION AND MEMORY LOSS.”

“METHODS FOR PREVENTING HEADACHES INCLUDE EATING AT LEAST EVERY SIX HOURS AND AVOIDING FOODS CONTAINING AMINES, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE AND ASPARTAME.”

Ladies Home Journal, September 1996

“MSG [MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE] HAS A REPUTATION AS A SERIOUS ALLERGEN THAT CAN CAUSE HEADACHES AND INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.” Maclean’s, October 27, 1997

“SENSITIVITY TO MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE CAN CAUSE HEADACHE, FLUSHING AND INTESTINAL UPSET.” British Medical Journal, April 25, 1998

“THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON RESUME TESTING MEAT FOR THE ILLEGAL HORMONE DES [DIETHYLSTILBESTROL] AFTER SWISS HEALTH INSPECTORS REPORTED FINDING TRACES OF IT IN IMPORTED AMERICAN BEEF.” The Washington Post

Contemporary OB/GYN,

Women’s Health Letter

TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES

by Robert A. Kroboth www.citizengadfly.com

Please print and distribute copies of this publication.

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SS: I used to have...... Since I stopped eating sugar I seldom have it.

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Experts: No Benefit to Reduced-Sugar Cereal

By J.M. HIRSCH, Associated Press Writer

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According to Newsweek (2005) Sugar is a $780M market in US.

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EXCERPT

Rat Studies Show Evidence of 'Sugar Dependence'

TORONTO (Reuters Health) - Could many of us be slaves to our sweet

tooth? New research in rats suggests that the brain can become dependent, if

not outright addicted, to sugars in food.

``The brain has opioid compounds and they seem to be released by palatable

tastes such as sugar, fat, ice cream, cake,'' explained Dr. Bart Hoebel, a

researcher at Princeton University.

The result? Compared with rats fed regular chow, sugar-fed rats developed

``mild'' symptoms indicative of withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering, an

increased frequency of high-pitched crying and anxiety. And when

researchers allowed these rats renewed access to sugar they

``binged''--consuming up to 30% of their daily sugar intake within the first

hour of re-introduction.

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EXCERPT: