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There is perception that there isn’t enough evidence to prove that a sugar high-sugar additction is real. There are many dimensions to the sugar high-sugar addiction phenomenon that is sweeping the country.

From Wiki Online

“A sugar “high” occurs when your bloodstream is flooded with glucose, usually produced from ingested carbohydrates which can easily be converted into glucose, such as sugars and certain polymers of sugar, such as starches. Your brain is unique in that it requires glucose, and cannot use other forms of energy such as fats or proteins. So when glucose levels are high in your blood, you feel energized and awake. The state of high blood-glucose levels, through a very fundamental signaling system, triggers the release of insulin from cells in your pancreas. Insulin is a directive for your body to store this extra energy as fat once your glycogen reserve has been topped off (so you can make it through the winter and other times when there may be no food). Therefore, your entire body feels active during a sugar high.”

Sugar Rollercoaster

“On the other hand, a sugar “crash” is probably on the way. If a very large amount of easily broken down carbohydrates is ingested, blood-glucose levels rise rapidly and cause a high degree of insulin release. This creates a sugar “rollercoaster” inside your body as glucose levels are brought down precipitously, to the point where you feel fatigued, tired, and…hungry! Eventually, your body can become resistant to insulin, causing chronic high blood-glucose levels. This is known as hyperglycemia, and is the beginning stage of type II diabetes.”

Craving Sugar

There is such a thing as a sugar high. Also, sugar craving seems to be something that occurs in industrialized societies. This is different than just liking the taste of sweet foods one in awhile.

This is part and parcel of the American Standard Diet. An acronym is the (SAD) diet. That may as well stand for the sugar addiction diet, of the salt addiction diet. Both of these hold true, as all food manufacturing companies understand so well.

Sugar Addiction

Is there such a thing as a recovered sugar addict? This is different that a recovering alcoholic or drug user. Most of our current food supply contains sugar or a sugar substitute. Any sugar substitute sets you up to crave more sweets. 

You can keep a sugar addiction by consuming better forms, such as a high fruit diet. That may not cut it for a true sugar addict. It is a fact that many Americans are addicted to this substance. Without being aware of the reasons for their food preferences, such as pancakes, coffee with sugar, sweet cereals, nearly all restaurant foods have some sugar as an ingredient.

The average American consumes 2-3 pounds of sugar a week. This includes all forms from sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar) and high-fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is in many processed foods. These include bread, cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and most pre-packaged foods.

Wikipedia on Sugar Addiction

There has been reference to the idea of sugar addiction in the popular literature for a number of years.

In 1998, Kathleen DesMaisons outlined the concept of sugar addiction as a measurable physiological state caused by activation of mu-opioid receptors in the brain. Her work extracted data from studies done showing that sugar acted as an analgesic drug whose effects could be blocked by a morphine blocker.

“Recent behavioral tests in rats further back the idea of an overlap between sweets and drugs. Drug addiction often includes three steps.

A person will increase his intake of the drug, experience withdrawal symptoms when access to the drug is cut off and then face an urge to relapse back into drug use.

Rats on sugar have similar experiences. Researchers withheld food for 12 hours and then gave rats food plus sugar water. This created a cycle of binging where the animals increased their daily sugar intake until it doubled. When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes.

Early findings also indicate signs of relapse. Rats weaned off sugar repeatedly pressed a lever that previously dispensed the sweet solution.”(Leah Ariniello, Brain Briefings, October 2003)

Researches have found a pancreatic cancer soda connection. There is a new study that found consuming two or more soft drinks (soda) a week, had about a two-fold higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer. All it took was two plus soft drinks in a week’s time. Will many people consuming two plus soft drinks a day, health care will have a run for their money.

Study

This study was published in the February issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Senior author Dr. Mark Pereira, associate professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and colleagues, followed over 60,000 Singapore-based men and women for over a decade. They found that the people who consumed two or more soft drinks developed pancreatic cancer at two times more that those who did not consume soft drinks.

“Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent health care. Favorite pastimes are eating and shopping, so the findings should apply to other western countries.” stated Dr. Pereira.

What is intriguing is that after adjusting for other lifestyle factors, it was found that people who drank two or more soft drinks a week (average of 5 per week) had a higher chance of developing this disease.

There was no risk associated with the consumption of fruit juice.

Reality Check

Anyone drinking 5 sodas a week is not practicing good health habits in other areas. Carbonation along with sugar is a deadly combination. Both independent of each other cause problems.

The carbonation in soft drinks deplete calcium and causes a nutritional deficiency in that mineral. Carbonation irritates the stomach. The cure for the irritation is to find an antacid, and that is the calcium in the body. It takes it from where it can get it, from places in the body that depend on it. That is one reason osteoporosis is on the rise.

Soft drinks contain phosophoric acid, and this causes other problems related to calcium loss

The sugar in soft drinks is dissolved in liquid, and it quickly makes its presence known. The pancreas goes into overdrive. Now the pancreas pumps out plenty of insulin.

Interesting Facts

Teenagers and children are the largest consumers of soda pop. Studies have shown that teenage boys can drink three plus cans per day and girls can drink at least two cans per day.

Soda comes in an aluminum can, and aluminum is able to bind with both calcium and phosphoric acid and is excreted through the urine.

Calcium can improve signaling within cells and cause cancer cells to differentiate and/or die. What that is saying it can cause them to revert to healthy cells.

Sugar or glucose is the food of cancer cells.

Analysis

All the real time studies by credible scientist and validated data will not change anything. The soft drink industry’s public relation campaigns and targeted ads will keep the soft drink bubble going.

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered the cancer glucose connection.  Restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed the death of precancerous human-lung cells, reducing cancer’s spread and growth rate.

The UAB team conducted its tests by growing both healthy human-lung cells and precancerous human-lung cells in laboratory flasks. The flasks were provided either normal levels of glucose or significantly reduced amounts of the sugar compound, and the cells then were allowed to grow for a period of weeks.

“In that time, we were able to track the cells’ ability to divide while also monitoring the number of surviving cells. The pattern that was revealed to us showed that restricted glucose levels led the healthy cells to grow longer than is typical and caused the precancerous cells to die off in large numbers,” Tollefsbol said. Dr. Tollefsbol’s research is primarily with cancer and aging epigenetics, the underlying mechanisms of cancer, aging and therapeutic approaches to cancer.

Hello Anyone There

Sugar depresses the immune system.

We have known this for decades. Glucose and vitamin C have similar chemical structures, when the sugar level goes up vitamin C has to compete. The more glucose the less vitamin C allowed to enter the cell. This slows down the immune systems. Sugar depletes vitamin, minerals, and enzymes.

The reason not to wait for research, they are light years behind holistic practitioners. For years these holistic researches have been saying that sugar is the food of malignant tumors. While the medical community said it doesn’t matter what you eat.

A Theory

A German biochemist, Dr. Otto Warburg discovered the cause of cancer back in 1923 and he received the 1931 Nobel Prize for doing so. In his book, The Metabolism of Tumors, Dr. Warburg demonstrated that the primary cause of cancer was (is) the replacement of oxygen in the respiratory chemistry of normal cells by the fermentation of sugar. The growth of cancer cells is a fermentation process which can be initiated only in the relative absence of oxygen.

Up to now the medical profession disregarded this theory. It is the basis of many alternative treatments. This is a theory that completely disregarded by the medical profession. IV’s consists of glucose and is used quite often as a source of calories for those that suffer from this condition.

Medical Practice

Simply said doctors are not the best at understanding what health is. Our perverse system of medicine rewards this. Americans swallow more pills, undergo more scans, and summit to more procedures without any understanding of the risks when they submit to treatments.

The high costs of doctor visits, and tests is in what they miss; the cause of diseases. They look at family history to try to guess what you will likely come down with. What they really need is a list of the foods, drinks, and habits that were passed down through the generations. Finally, what is it that caused the problems. The cancer glucose connection is now being validated by scientific studies.

Carnage

Tollefsbol’s research team included Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D., M.D., a UAB biology research associate, and Liang Liu, Ph.D., a UAB assistant professor of medicine.

The group’s study titled “Glucose Restriction Can Extend Normal Cell Lifespan and Impair Precancerous Cell Growth Through Epigenetic Control of hTERT and p16 Expression” has been published in the online edition of The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, or FASEB Journal.

The research was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research

There is a very good reason that the war on cancer hasn’t produced the results that everyone expected. There is no quick fix, or magic bullet. It is fiction that you let someone bombard you with every known chemical, and expect super health.

Between the food industry and pharmaceutical companies we have become anesthetized to the carnage that these industries are causing. The main attraction to this approach, responsibility is in someone else’s hands, and a promise of instant help.