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ОглавлениеSugar not only needs a chapter to itself, but an entire book could be written on this subject. We do not have time for that and luckily you really do not need to know the entire history of the sugar industry to rid most it from your life. All that’s required is full knowledge of exactly what happens when refined sugar enters your bloodstream and how it attaches itself emotionally to our minds, creating ‘addiction’.
There is a danger this small chapter could get a little ‘blah, blah, blahish’, but as refined sugar is one of the biggest causes of food addiction and probably the largest contributor to many of the world’s biggest killer diseases, it’s worth paying full attention.
When natural food is eaten, it is first broken down in the mouth then passed into the stomach. Once there, it is further broken down and eventually passed into the intestines, where the energy and nutrients can slowly be absorbed. The body then has the job of getting rid of the waste through the usual outlets – bowels, bladder, lungs, skin, etc. White refined sugar however, (and that includes brown sugar), is very different. It goes straight through the stomach wall without being digested, giving an instant rush of glucose to the bloodstream. This causes your blood sugar levels to rise too high. You now have too much sugar in your blood and your ‘PH balance’ is out of sorts (this is not to be confused with your skin PH). Your blood PH level is very, very important. If it goes just a couple of points below or above what it should be you will die. Your body therefore has to do whatever it can to counteract your rocketing blood sugar levels and reinstate the body’s normal balance. How does it do this? By using some of your body’s bank account of the powerful hormone insulin.
The rush you feel when you eat ‘simple sugars’ is simply the rush of insulin entering the bloodstream
The insulin produced to deal with this high blood sugar causes your blood sugar to ultimately fall. When we feel the effects of low blood sugar what do we need? Food that can raise blood sugar rapidly – more refined sugar. The moment the insulin reaction has cleansed your bloodstream of this excess sugar, you will be running on empty – an empty feeling created by refined sugar. See the loop?
White refined sugar has no essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fats or amino acids. It simply contains ‘simple sugars’, which are extremely dangerous to the natural balance of the body. There is no need whatsoever for simple refined sugars in the diet of a human. The only reason for its inclusion is to:
A) Abnormally sweeten foods to pervert our natural taste buds
B) Extend shelf-life
C) Use as a cheap filler
D) Keep you coming back for more and more and more
It is a totally empty food that leaves you ultimately feeling empty. It is, however, used at every available opportunity by the junkie food industry.
SUGAR CAUSES LOW BLOOD SUGAR
If your sugar levels were properly balanced you would feel satisfied for longer and the hunger you feel would always be a genuine one. That simply is no good for BIG SUGAR – they need you to feel the effects of abnormal low blood sugar, they want your sugar levels to crash, they need you to feel unbalanced and empty. That way you will feel the need for a quick fix and thus the sugar industry is guaranteed repeat business like any other addiction led industry. This is because the only thing that appears to end the feeling is something which has more white refined sugar – the very thing that caused the problem in the first place. It’s like treating the symptoms of a disease with the cause. White refined sugar causes dis-ease in the body, which in turn causes dis-ease in the mind.
Many people I see are under the misapprehension that they don’t consume that much sugar. If they don’t have it in their tea, coffee, or on their cereal, they assume there is little sugar in their diet. However, BIG FOOD relies on it and it is in virtually every processed food we consume. You can find refined sugar in bread, cereal, cakes, biscuits, nearly all soft drinks, cheese (yes some cheeses), virtually all ready meals, ice creams, burgers, sausages, and the list goes on and on and on. I also want to make clear that when I talk about white refined sugar I am not just talking about the sugar found in drinks, processed foods, chocolate, ketchup and so on. I am also talking about white refined carbohydrates. These include white rice, pasta, bread cereals and the like, all of which rapidly turn to glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream.
The fast food outlets – the ones who rake in well over £3 billion a year in the UK from junkie type foods, use white refined sugar in all forms to keep you coming back for more. They rely on its inclusion. Without white refined sugars, salt, and refined fats (more on these topics soon) they would nearly all go out of business overnight. Most would have literally nothing to sell.
I have mentioned that when you eat white refined bread, pasta, rice, flour etc. your sugar levels go up rapidly and more insulin is secreted to help counteract it. Any ‘lift’ you feel from a sugar or carbo ‘hit’ is very short lived and in no time you feel a drop as the body scrambles to balance its blood sugar levels. However, there is something else you need to be more than aware of, particularly if you are reading this book to lose excess fat. The insulin that has been produced by the pancreas to rectify your blood sugar is also known as ‘the fat-producing hormone’. Its job is to transport the carbohydrate energy (which has been converted by the body into glucose) to the liver and muscle cells for short-term storage of energy. However, if there is too much glucose at once – which is inevitable when white refined foods are consumed – some of the excess glucose (energy) has to go into the long-term storage banks: in other words it is stored as FAT.
Let me simplify to make this insulin, low blood sugar thing very clear
Insulin is produced by the pancreas to counteract the excess glucose (or sugar) that floods the bloodstream when you consume white refined carbohydrates. Any over-spill from the high amounts of insulin necessary to tackle this onslaught are stored as fat. When the insulin levels start to come down, a signal is sent to the brain to inform it that sugar levels have now stabilized. Once sugar levels are stabilized, you feel satisfied. However, in no time at all, blood sugar levels fall as the food it was given was an empty fuel and one that is released into the blood much too quickly. When your sugar levels drop again to an uncomfortable level, you once again get an empty dissatisfied feeling. If you then try and satisfy this feeling with more simple empty junkie foods and drinks, the cycle will continue.
This loop is problematic enough and, along with the advertising and mind manipulation, is what keeps people hooked. However, just like a drug addict who needs more and more of their drug to try and feel satisfied as time goes on, so it is for the junkie food addict.
