Sugar Is Poison for You
As a chemical, sugar is poison for the body and the cause behind numerous ailments. We’re addicted to its taste and find it impossible to avoid… but as we will see later in this article, safe and healthy alternatives are becoming available.
As we pass through the supermarket aisles perpetuating another generation of dental decay, obesity, weakened bones, diabetes, hyperactivity, emotional imbalance and dysfunctional immune systems, we must ask ourselves the compelling question of why we consume sugar, and especially, why we give sugar to children.
In Australia we eat about 65 kilograms of the stuff a year or 35 teaspoons a day. And it’s in everything — chicken soup, pickles, pork and beans, peanut butter, bread, macaroni and cheese, sauce, mustard and relish, jam, yogurt, canned fruit and vegetables, salad dressings, not to mention the endless list of desserts, jam packed and stuffed to capacity with sugar.
The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes
(mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients. What is left is more like a drug than food, a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities now ingested in today’s accepted lifestyles.
It quickly passes through the stom-
Why is sugar so devastating to our health? Sugar is pure chemical and (like heroin) through refining has been stripped of all the natural food nutrition it originally had in the plant itself. ther refined it into heroin. This discovery, they proclaimed, was a wonderful new non-addictive pain-killer. So they said. Similarly, sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane (or beet) and refined into molasses. Then it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into strange
white
As we pass through the supermarket aisles perpetuating another generation of dental decay, obesity, weakened bones, diabetes, hyperactivity, emotional imbalance and dysfunctional immune systems, we must ask ourselves the compelling question of why we consume sugar, and especially, why we give sugar to children.
In Australia we eat about 65 kilograms of the stuff a year or 35 teaspoons a day. And it’s in everything — chicken soup, pickles, pork and beans, peanut butter, bread, macaroni and cheese, sauce, mustard and relish, jam, yogurt, canned fruit and vegetables, salad dressings, not to mention the endless list of desserts, jam packed and stuffed to capacity with sugar.
The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes
(mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients. What is left is more like a drug than food, a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities now ingested in today’s accepted lifestyles.
It quickly passes through the stom-
Why is sugar so devastating to our health? Sugar is pure chemical and (like heroin) through refining has been stripped of all the natural food nutrition it originally had in the plant itself. ther refined it into heroin. This discovery, they proclaimed, was a wonderful new non-addictive pain-killer. So they said. Similarly, sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane (or beet) and refined into molasses. Then it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into strange
white