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Food manufacturers understand the power of the taste of sugar, and use it in developing a product for mass production.

Products

The sugar flavoring is usually hidden in food products. Words like dextrose, cellulose, high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, glucose, fructose, ethyl maltol, mannitol, sucrose, and sorbitol are used on the package.

Artificial sweeteners produce a sugar flavor. Sugar and the taste of sweetness stimulate the brain by activating beta endorphin receptor sites.

Products that can keep you on the sugar Roller Coaster

• Fruit Drinks
• Sugar-cured meats
• Tomato Sauce
• Pancake Mixes
• Breakfast Bars
• Cereals
• Relish
• Tomato Ketchup
• Bread
• Protein powders
• Toothpaste
• Breath mints
• Crackers
• Baby foods
• Pretzels
• Peanut butter
• Fast foods
• Pre-packaged foods
• Yogurt
• Breath mints
• Salad dressings

Deficits

Sugar sets up nutritional deficits. It has the ability to drain the body of vitamins and minerals. The body is not capable of utilizing this refined starch, unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present.

Sugar taken on a daily basis produces a continuously over-acid condition, and more minerals are required from the body in an attempt to rectify this. In order to protect our physiology, calcium is taken from the places that depend on this nutrient. That is the primary reason that tooth decay and osteoporosis appear.

A general weakening to occurs. Excess sugar affects every organ. Since it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen), the liver’s capacity is limited. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess takes the form of fatty acids. These are stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts, and the thighs.

When these places are filled, fatty acids now find their way to your organs. The heart and kidneys are examples. These organs will not be able to funcion at full capacity, and the body will slow down. Now, all the systems in the body are affected by this reduced ability.

What is Sugar

Sugar is the basic element found in starchy food. Sugar cane contains 14% trace elements, minerals, and vitamins, plus chlorophyll. The sugar we purchase in the store for our consumption is made in a way that is so unappetizing.

Sugar is heated up in chalk-milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted. All the vitamin content is destroyed. In the second phase the sugar in mixed with acid chalk, carbonic gas, sulphur dioxide, and natrium bicarbonate.

Now, the mixture is cooked and cooled off several times. Then it is crystallized and a centrifugalize process is used. It is further treated with strontium hydroxide. It is not finished until it is passed over chalk carbon acid to clean it.

All dark coloring is removed by adding sulphuric acid, and then it filtered. The product’s chemical composition is C12 H22 011, which is now labeled “pure cane” sugar.

The Term Pure

Sugar has an atomic density of 99.4 to 99.5%. This density is usually seen in the category of poison. Sugar irritates the mucous membranes, tissues, glands, blood vessels and intestinal tract. Sugar also paralyzes the intestinal peristaltic functions. Besides all this it destroys brain cells and elevates the temperature of the body.

Using the term pure is like saying we have a lot of pure heroin.

Our Treat

This is our treat, and one that we give to people we love. Our children are bribed and shown love with sugary rewards. Our children will sow the bitter aftermath from our ability to produce a sweet poison.

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)

There is a study that shows type-2 diabetics have poor impulse control. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal BioPsycho Social Medicine, suggested that neurological changes result in this inability to resist temptation, which in turn exacerbates diabetes.

Hiroaki Kumano, from Waseda University, Japan, worked with a team of researchers to assess response inhibition, a measure of self-control, in 27 patients with type-2 diabetes and 27 healthy controls. He said, “Patients with type 2 diabetes are required to make strict daily decisions; for example, they should resist the temptation of high-fat, high-calorie food, which is frequently cued by specific people, places and events. Appropriate behavior modification thus depends on the patients ability to inhibit impulsive thoughts and actions cued by these environmental stimuli”.

In order to gauge the patients’ ability to resist such impulsive behavior, the researchers used a test in which participants had to quickly press a button in response to the correct signal on a computer screen, while pressing the button in response to the wrong symbol counted against their score. They found that patients with diabetes performed significantly worse at the test, suggesting that they struggled to control the impulse to press the button. Other results showed that the inhibitory failure observed in diabetic patients was mainly explained by cognitive impairment of impulse control, rather than by deficits in motor performance, error monitoring and adjustment. According to Kumano, “This suggests the possibility that the neuropsychological deficits in response inhibition may contribute to the behavioral problems leading to chronic lifestyle-related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes”.

Really

Previous generations did not have all the chronic conditions that American’s face today. These studies are similar to a dog chasing his tale. We are going in circles, without understanding the problem. Any amount of neurological damage can occur because of the poor diet being shoved down our throats.

People who are overweight already have an impulse problem. The most common one stems from poor glucose regulation, and poor nutrition. Cravings are set up by the food giants, and now we can study the effects and blame the victim.

Question

Which came first poor impulse control or a poor diet that changed hormones, cells, gene expression, and brain circuitry. Again, it is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg. Science in the 21^st century is chasing their tail at our expense.

Looking at every and any angle of why type-2 diabetics haven’t enough control in front of food is alright, if you ask the right questions. Extending it to impulse behavior that effects other things would make sense, if the whole population wasn’t heading down the same path.

Then the question becomes why is the entire population at risk, including the very young.

Sense and Cents

These studies really don’t make sense. I really would like to see more productive use of the funds that are being used for this so-called research.

Taking a look at our food supply might be a good start. People in this country are nutrient deficient while on a high calorie diet. A good part of the population is undernourished and overweight. All studies are being conducting on people who are not operating at their optimate level. In that case many functions will be frequently out of whack.

Whack rhymes with quack, and I see quack science searching for all the capabilities lost to an American diet. With all the research the solution remains elusive.