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From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Sugar - harmless, no - deadly, yes
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 10:18:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 10:18:54 1985
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Reply-To: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
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Why do so many people think that sugar is harmless?  Just because the sugar
industry says so is only part of a reason.  Because people want to eat sugar?
If people stopped, after a while they would probably start to dislike it (I
hate the taste of it in any quantity).  Probably because doctors don't tell
people that sugar is dangerous often enough (some even say that there is no
harm).

The harmful effects of sugar take years to develop and are affected by many,
many outside variables.  Basically refined sugar passes so rapidly into the
blood stream that the bodies blood-sugar organs are put on a merry-go-round.
Fiber in the diet is important to slow down the digestive process so that the
body can change smoothly from an elimination to an assimilation of food.  Blood
sugar is controlled by many organs in the body - islands-of-langerhans, liver,
adrenal and other glands.  After many years some of these organs get burnt
out.  Look at the number of diabetics in the world today?  Anybody have a
better explanation for this rise other than the consumption of refined sugar,
caffeine and chocolate (the later having very similar effects)?

Sugar is also responsible for mood changes.  Hasn't sugar been blamed for
hyperactivity in children?

Is there an alternative?  Use small amounts of raw honey (not cooked, not
pasturized, not anything but raw).  Honey is unrefined and therefore does not
pass into the blood stream with the speed of sugar, nor does it stop passing
into the blood stream with the abruptness of sugar.  Also it should be eaten
with other foods high in fiber to slow down the digestive process.  Natural
fructose, while it is still in whatever fruit or vegetable it belongs in, is
very harmless for this reason.  Corn fructose (as an example) as an ingredient
is not harmless and they might as well say sugar, but even the food industry
will try and fool people into eating sugar by making them think they are
getting something 'natural'.  Sugar is an empty food source, it has no positive
value, therefore it is eaten in abundance because it is not filling.


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