The Reclassification of Sugar as a Drug
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“If sugar were to be put on the market for the first time today, it would probably be difficult to get it past the FDA.”
Of all the foods consumed today, refined sugar is considered to be one of the most harmful to our bodies!
Sugar is a simple, edible, crystalline carbohydrate. The history of sugar dates back thousands of yeas. The process of making sugar from sugarcane was developed in India around 500 BC. Sugar production has a dark ugly history, intertwined with corporate fights for profits at the expense of third world country slavery and enormous environmental impacts. To this day sugar production still uses exploitative labor practices. Sugar manufacturers are aggressive in defending their product and have a strong political lobby, which allows them to continue selling a deadly food item that by all reason should not be allowed in the American diet. However this article is not about the politics or history of sugar.
Sugar meets the definition of a drug.
Refined sugar, by some is called a drug, because in the refining process everything of food value has been removed except the carbohydrates – pure calories without vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes or any of the other elements that make up food.
When you take a substance out of nature and refine it to maximize its chemical surface area and biological activity you are creating a drug with intentions of a desired bodily affect. Cocaine is a drug that’s refined from coca leaves. Opium is a drug that’s refined from poppies. And sugar is a drug that’s refined from sugarcane.
…Dr. David Reuben, author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutrition says, “…white refined sugar-is not a food. It is a pure chemical extracted from plant sources, purer in fact than cocaine, which it resembles in many ways. Its true name is sucrose and its chemical formula is C12H22O11.
Sugar is, essentially, a legalized recreational drug that’s socially acceptable to consume. And yet, just like other drugs, it destroys a person’s health over time, rotting out their teeth, disrupting normal brain function, promoting heart disease and directly causing diabetes and obesity. The argument that “street drugs are outlawed because they’re dangerous to a person’s health” falls flat on its face when you consider what sugar does to the human body.
If you have any doubts as to the detriments of sugar (sucrose), try leaving it out of your diet for several weeks and see if it makes a difference! You may also notice you have acquired an addiction and experience some withdrawal symptoms. …Studies show that “sugar” is just as habit-forming as any narcotic; and its use, misuse, and abuse is our nation’s number one disaster.
Sugar is now 20 percent of the American diet. More facts: the average American eats 22 teaspoons of sugar a day, in 2003 we ate 142 pounds on average of sugar (much more for teenagers), and sweeteners, 46 gallons of soft drinks but only 8.3 pounds of leafy vegetables.
Hidden sugars: Sugar has many forms and is hidden in our food. You may have stopped adding that teaspoon of sugar to your coffee and cut back on your afternoon candy run, many not-so-obvious foods are chock-full of hidden sugars. Anything from bagels to yogurt can contain a high amount of added sugars.
Deciphering Labels
It can be confusing to try to find out how much added sugar a food contains. The sugar listing on a Nutrition Facts label lumps all sugars together, including naturally-occurring milk and fruit sugars, which can be deceiving. This explains why, according to the label, one cup of milk has 11 grams of sugar even though it doesn’t contain any sugar “added” to it.
Read the ingredients list. Learn to identify terms that mean added sugars, including sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, confectioner’s sugar, corn syrup, dextrin, honey, invert sugar, maple syrup, raw sugar, beet sugar, cane sugar, corn sweeteners, evaporated cane juice, high fructose corn syrup, malt, molasses, and turbinado sugar, to name a few.
Sugar means beat and cane sugar, white or brown, fructose and corn: the biological effects are all the same. The point is sugar is poison!
For more information I suggest watching a lecture given by Dr. Robert Lustig called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” posted on YouTube.
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HOW WILL YOU IMPROVE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR?
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time” Mark Twain.
Starting this month 2012 if you want improve your life for good. I suggest you start of sitting down and or better yet go for a long slow walk in nature all by yourself. Take some water and a snack so you are comfortable. Stop somewhere peaceful and be alone. Reflect for a moment upon yourself and who you are what you truly represent and what you want from life.
According to Chinese medicine, there are seven emotions: joy, fright, worry, sadness, grief, fear, anger. Actions are often based on emotions. Yes we all have our demons we battle, sometimes we win, and sometimes we lose. We usually lose when we are governed by emotion, which includes giving up on our New Year’s resolutions. The way to overcome and win has often been referred to as “will power”. This concept has many names: delayed gratification, self control and Freud’s coined term of “impulse control”. People who lack the psychological trait of being able to delay gratification are said to require instant gratification and might suffer poor impulse control.
I believe that no matter what habit or trait you would like to change success begins with the right mindset. “As you think, so shall you be”. As you sit there in solitude with nature resolve to change the way you look at things. Lay out a plan and commit to it no matter how you feel in the moment. Choose free will and act upon it. You have control over your reality and you have the ability to create your world, why would you not want to maximize that and create the life you want?
This is the time of year to clarify and map out your journey. Set some goals, write them down and begin the pursuit. Once you believe and visualize your goals you are on the way to achieving them. The reality is obstacles will present themselves they always do, but so does opportunity. Learn to look for them and not at the obstacles. It is like what I use to say when I bike racing and trying to avoid a crash. “Look where you want to go and do not look where you do not want to go.” By the way it worked very well and I avoided a number of terrible crashes. This will work in your life as well.
Your mind is very powerful and intelligent and that can work for you or against you. When you set new and higher goals for yourself you are in reality asking your mind and your current belief system to change and work in a different way. In other words you are changing your mind! New Year’s resolutions are goals we set for ourselves that are usually about fixing something about ourselves. In order to fix a problem we need to look at how we got where we are now.
Start you journey in to 2012
- Mindset: Every day you can make a decision to continue on the path you’re on or to do something different. Your days, hours, and minutes are made up of all the individual decisions you make. Each decision is an opportunity to change your life for the better.
- Simplify: This is a big part of my life right now, trying to clear out all the extra physical stuff you have. Cleaning out the environment you live in and getting rid of “stuff”.
- Clarifying: Our values drive our daily actions and decisions. Spend time thinking about your values and what you truly care about, what you want to change in your life, and why you believe these things. If you’re clear on your values then set resolutions that align with them won’t be difficult.
- Think: Think of how the new belief is going to improve your life. Think of what is going to be possible. How is changing this going to influence your life in an amazing way? What is going to improve? How much more happiness, joy and fulfillment will you get if you adopt this belief?
- Now Stop thinking: Over thinking keeps us from acting.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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