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From: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: I,too,have eliminated sugar from my diet. Re: net.med#722
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:17:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:17:25 1985
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In article <2010@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:

> I weighed 263#; 
> I had hypertension
>(160/110); cholesterol over 300, used nose drops every day (8 years),
>carried anti-acids every where I went; had arthritis so bad in my
>knees I was told to stop jogging or risk plastic kneecaps and was
>depressed most of the time (a 15 year problem).
>Together, they had me on : Valium
>(40mgm/day--for "muscle spasm"), Elavil (150mgm/day--for depression),
>Talwin 50mgm (as needed--for pain) and Quaalude (400mgm as needed for
>sleep) all at the same time.  I finally became so depressed, while
>taking all this medication, that I was unable to work as a solo Family
>Practitioner. 
>cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll)

It is no wonder you felt bad.  Anyone who was on the amount of depressant
medication (Valium, Talwin, and Quaaludes) that you were on would be
depressed, weight and hypertension aside.  Just getting you off all that
stuff should have made you feel wonderful by comparison.

I have eliminated sugar from my diet before for periods of several
months for weight control purposes.  I'd have to say that I didn't
feel any different.  Certainly if I stringently eliminate carbohydrates
(including starches) I feel MUCH worse.  No energy.  Hard to excercise
without fatigue.  I probably wasn't stringent enough for you, searching
out every detail of everything I ate to make sure it didn't have a gram
of sugar in it.  (I never use or used caffeine.)  So based on my experiments
I would have to say that either your chemistry is different than mine,
or you are indeed getting a "religious" effect.  I suspect the latter.
But, if it works for you, fine.  I just am skeptical of your generalizing.