Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Sugar is More Damaging than Cyclamates? Message-ID: <513@scc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 01:25:01 EDT Article-I.D.: scc.513 Posted: Mon Jul 29 01:25:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 06:10:55 EDT References: <713@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: Don Steiny Software Lines: 39 > Chuck Forsberg writes: > > >Unfortunately, the laws are such that Sugar, which is a more damaging > >substance, is not regulated in any significant way as far as adulterating > >food with it is concerned. > > Jeff Fields responds: > > Refined sugar is "damaging" in that it is empty calories devoid of nutritional > goodies provided in unprocessed sources of sugar. So, it is not sugar that > causes problems, it is the lack of the supply of nutrients that comes from > eating foods containing refined sugar, i.e. junk foods, in place of eating > more nutritional foods that is damaging. The sin of refined sugar is > not one of commission but of omission. According to "Life Extention" and various books and articles I have read over the years, besides depriving you of calories, eating lots of sucrose on an empty stomach can cause the pancreous to secrete lots of insulin to deal with it. The sugar is rapidly absorbed and there is left over insulin. Insulin is hard on the arteries and people who have to inject it for diabetes often have health problems because of too much insulin. The extreme form of this overabundance of insulin, when it becomes pathological, is called hypoglycimia. The idea of the health benefit of eating less sugar, or at least being careful to eat sugar with other foods so it is not absorbed as rapidly, is that we subject ourselves to less insulin. The insulin is not enough to make us sick, but enough to cause much wear and tear on our circulatory systems. If Pritikin's circulatory system is any example, there might well be something to the idea. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060