Sugar and Sweeteners
SUGAR
Kids eat a lot of cereal, sometimes on a daily basis because it’s easy to prepare, the kids like it and it’s easy to clean up. Now that’s what a busy household needs today in this fast paced society. And especially if there are a couple of these little children running around, as especially if Mom and Dad are a working couple, and really especially if it’s just Mom and the kids. And to prepare this cereal you don’t have to sprinkle on a little sugar; you don’t have to because the cereal companies have already done that for you…and they put a cute little cartoon character on the box to make it fun. We all want our children to grow up and stay healthy; well this is not the direction you want to take if parents want healthy kids.
Yep, the major cereal companies want you to take it easy and enjoy your mornings. However, here is something you should also be aware of; the cereals your children are consuming every day are loaded with sugar; so much so, according the Environmental Working Group report on May 15, 2013 on 181 cereals marketed to children, it stated your child would
be consuming over 10 pounds of sugar per year!!! BTW, you should also know that over 80% of all items in your grocery store have added sugar; total calories of a substance that is not needed, has a high risk for illnesses, and actually has negative daily effects. It’s also one of the
weight gainers for children; and it has no nutritional value given in this form or amount!
Sugar is one of the world’s most addictive substance leading to increased serious psychological impairments; having the positive effect of pleasure but also wanting more. Oscar Wilde once said the following statement about cigarettes; “You must have a cigarette. It is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
It is the very essence of survival in the pre-historic Homo Sapiens but it now the very essence of our long term demise. It is nothing more than a processed, legal drug promoting severe disabling diseases such as blindness, amputations, heart attacks, strokes, kidney dialysis, and, if you’re lucky, sudden death from a heart attack. Did you know that most of the time, your first heart attack will be your last; 50% of people who have their first heart attack never have another one; the reason is because 50% of people with the 1st heart attack die.
Heart attacks, our number one Cause of Death in the United States, kills more people that die of Cancer, Accidents, and AIDS each year. And Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of heart attacks, disability and death; Type 2 Diabetes is a Pandemic and is rapidly increasing as a Cause of
Death world wide. It is “The Black Death of the 21st Century”.
A cheaper and much more healthy option is a small bowl of oats. You do not, repeat not, have to cook the oats..they are delicious alone and if you add a banana or fruit, your child’s metabolic system will love you more.
Artificial Sweeteners
- L. Knaus, D.O., FACN
St. Pete., Fl., Feb. 2018
Well, here we are with another controversial issue, artificial sweeteners.
Let’s start The American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. According to a Huffington Post story by Robbie Gennet, aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal) has no place in our food due to it is very potentially a cancer and brain tumor causing substance. It has no place in our food yet it is on almost ever table in every restaurant in the United States. How could that happen? In 1995 Dr. John Olney, the founder of the field of ‘excitotoxicity’ attempt to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner. The FDA’ own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a double, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and it violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer. And according to the top doctors and researchers on this issue aspartame causes memory loss, seizures, vision loss, headaches, and depression. It worsens other illnesses as well such as MS, Lupus, ADHD, Diabetes, Alzheimer, and others!!! And to put more icing on the cake, guess who had the power to bring it to market; none other that a powerful individual named Donald Rumsfeld, who was the CEO of Searle (Big Pharma) who was on the transition team for Ronald Reagan. After the inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA, Reagan fired the FDA commissioner and replaced him with Rumsfeld’s puppet, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., who then approved aspartame for dry products and two years later, it was approved for liquids. How’s that Diet Coke, Pepsi, etc tasting now?
And since that time, researchers in Israel found that artificial sweeteners used in diet drinks and outer foods can disrupt healthy gut microbes, leading to higher blood sugar levels; and early sign of diabetes. With this much controversy and with very conflicting issues from the medical and industry sides, we must make our own choice. I know what my choice is.
A study done at the University of Iowa revealed that women who consume two or more a day sodas with Aspartame are 30 % more likely to have a C-V problem and 50% more likely to die from related disease.
