| William Duffy wrote a book a few years ago called | | | | stomach which is acidic. You can actually buy pH |
| Sugar Blues. In the book, he writes about the | | | | strips from a health food store to test how acid or |
| addictive qualities of white sugar by saying, "It is | | | | alkaline your saliva or urine pH is. Your saliva should be |
| much like a drug and the difference between sugar | | | | approximately 7.4 and your urine should be 6.9 pH. |
| addiction and narcotic addiction is largely one of | | | | The pH chart is right on the package. You should spit |
| degree." How is sugar classified as an addictive | | | | into a clean spoon first thing in the morning before |
| substance? The fact that you can eat one piece or | | | | you put anything into your mouth, one hour before a |
| one bite of something containing sugar, which creates | | | | meal, and two hours after you eat. Please do not put |
| the desire for more and more, qualifies the substance | | | | the pH paper onto your tongue. The chemicals are |
| as being addictive. If you give a young child a bite of | | | | toxic and should not be put onto your tongue. They |
| something containing sugar for the first time, they will | | | | could accumulate over time. |
| cry or scream until you give them more. The other | | | | Your urine will test acidic first thing in the morning as |
| qualification for being addictive is when someone | | | | it is getting rid of acids flushed throughout the night. |
| decides to stop eating sugar-containing foods 'cold | | | | You should do your first urine test about two to |
| turkey', all kinds of symptoms start appearing like | | | | three hours after you get up but one hour before |
| headaches, fuzzy thinking, vacant mind, depression, | | | | you eat a meal, not necessarily your first meal. |
| fatigue, blurred vision and strong cravings, to name a | | | | Sugar is an empty addictive food. It has no minerals, |
| few. These unpleasant withdrawal symptoms try to | | | | no vitamins, no protein, amino acids, fat or fiber. All it |
| instigate the person to re-engage the sugar addiction. | | | | has is calories and that seductive, addictive flavor |
| Sugar has a long history going back as far as 327BC | | | | that makes you want more. |
| where records show that raw sugar was used in | | | | W.D. Ringsdorf, DMD, MS, co-authored a book called |
| India. The Spaniards brought sugar to the Americas in | | | | Psychodietetics, in which he talks about the |
| the 16th century. About 600 years ago, a refining | | | | dangerous side effects of sugar. Aside from being |
| process was invented. Simple refined sugar is | | | | very addictive, acidic and a major contributor to |
| extracted from crushed, ground sugar cane, where it | | | | weight gain, he says that sugar raises the blood |
| is filtered, then concentrated by boiling it down into a | | | | pressure. When sugar is combined with animal fats, |
| syrup. Over the years substances such as sulfur | | | | like in donuts, it leads to clogged arteries and the risk |
| dioxide, milk of lime, carbon dioxide, charcoal from | | | | of blood clots. Ringsdorf also says that sugar |
| charred beef bones and calcium carbonate have been | | | | increases the stickiness of the blood, making it seem |
| used in the refining process as purifying agents. | | | | thicker and more prone to cause problems with |
| Mmmm, good. Brown sugar is just white sugar with | | | | clotting. |
| varying degrees of molasses added back. Golden | | | | Part of your body's defense system is in the blood. |
| yellow sugar has a little bit of caramel color added. | | | | Cells called phagocytes are a type of white blood cell |
| Raw sugar is processed so that a little bit of the | | | | that destroys foreign invaders like bacteria and |
| molasses remains. | | | | viruses in the body. Tests show that a couple of |
| Sugar is classed in the food group called | | | | teaspoons of sugar, like in a cup of coffee can |
| carbohydrates, if you can call this addictive 'white | | | | reduce the ability of these defensive cells to do their |
| death' a food. There are several types of sweet | | | | job by up to 25 percent. A large helping of pie and |
| substances, notably, sucrose from sugar cane, | | | | ice cream will shut down the phagocytes' ability to do |
| fructose from fruit, lactose from milk, and maltose | | | | their job entirely. The pie and ice cream will render |
| from grain. Combined with other ingredients, sugar, as | | | | your immune system helpless for 4 to 5 hours. Don't |
| a carbohydrate is enjoyable to eat and provides the | | | | get into a crowded elevator or on a crowded bus |
| body with instant fuel, unlike proteins and fats which | | | | during flu season. |
| require more complex digestion. Scientific studies on | | | | Ringsdorf also gives the example of drinking a 683 ml |
| various age groups show that newborns have an | | | | cola beverage which will depress your immune |
| instinctive desire for more sweet after tasting it, | | | | system by 50 percent approximately 30 minutes |
| while children and adults have an acquired taste for it. | | | | after you drink it and the effects will last 4 to 5 |
| Once we taste something sweet, we want the | | | | hours. Imagine all the food items that you eat during |
| pleasure of having more of it. | | | | the day that contain sugar - the coffee, the tea, the |
| Scientific studies show that excessive sugar | | | | donut or the muffin, the yogurt, salad dressing, |
| consumption contributes to many health problems | | | | orange juice, the energy bar and the chocolate chip |
| that are becoming more and more common, including | | | | cookie. Your immune system will not even be able to |
| high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart | | | | kill all the rogue cells that your body produces that |
| disease, indigestion, hypoglycemia, obesity, gout, | | | | have the potential to create lumpy things in your |
| fuzzy thinking, myopia, lack of concentration and | | | | body. You need to stop eating sugar. If you get |
| focus, depression, anxiety, seborrhea and weak | | | | colds and flu you definitely need to stop eating sugar. |
| bones and teeth. This is because sugar in all its forms | | | | Not only is sugar addictive, it is destroying your |
| causes the body terrain to become extremely acidic. | | | | health. We were designed to eat food as close to |
| The body functions best at a neutral to alkaline pH, | | | | natural as possible. That doesn't include processed |
| with different parts of the body having different | | | | food, of which sugar is one. |
| degrees of alkalinity, with the exception of the | | | | |