On A Sweet Note. Is it possible?

Real quick. While preparing this, a story popped in my head. Not that long ago we had my brother-in-law and his youngest daughter over for dinner. We had cooked a yummy dinner and were enjoying it when my niece walked into the kitchen and noticed a plastic bag sitting on the counter. She picked it up and read what it said, ”Organic Raw Evaporated Cane Juice.” She looked over at her dad and asked him what this stuff was. He said, “I guess that’s suppose to be healthy sugar, if there is anything of the sort.” Sugar in its natural state is healthy. It is a complete food, one we want to eat. It is only through processing that sugar becomes unhealthy. I guess the next logical question here, as a parent especially would have to be, what does refined sugar do to the body? How does it harm the body? A little hyperactiveness followed by my child getting tons of exercise and then passing out with a good nights sleep, is not that bad a thing. Right? You know the answer I am sure.


According to Tim O’Shea author of Sugar The Sweet Thief of Life and his expansive research refined sugar does a whole list of negatory things to the human body. To our children’s bodies.

· Suppresses the immune system
· Causes hyperactivity
· Kidney damage
· Mineral deficiencies, especially calcium, magnesium, chromium and copper
· Makes the blood acidic
· Tooth decay
· Advances aging
· Digestive disorders
· Arthritis
· Asthma
· Candida albicans
· Decreased blood flow to the heart
· Cause osteoporosis
· Causes food allergies
· Causes eczema
· Atherosclerosis
· Free radical formation
· Loss of enzyme function
· Increases liver and kidney size
· Brittle tendons · Migraines · Blood clots
· Depression

Can all of this really be possible? Can sugar really cause our children’s bodies to suffer from such things? The answer to both these questions is, Yes! Studies have been done. The research is out there. The scarier thing about sugar and the above list of health consequences is that all of those consequences have consequences.

If the average adult person consumes about 150 pounds of sugar a year and that adds up to about 20% of the calories of the average American diet, making 20% of what we as Americans eat have NO nutritional value whatsoever, then how much sugar do we really need to consume?

FACT: A DOUBLE BIG GULP (1/2 GALLON) OF SODA EQUALS 48 TSP. OF SUGAR

This actually is not a hard answer. We need not consume any white sugar (refined that is) absolutely NO high fructose corn syrup. In a normal bloodstream, which is about 5 liters, only about 2 teaspoons of glucose should be circulating at any one time. What does this look like in the soda world? Well, one 12-ounce soda is about 10 teaspoons of sugar. May not look like a lot of sugar but it raises the glucose in the bloodstream by 5x for four hours. That’s one soda!

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