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Lover's Tale of a Sugar AddictWhite Sugar Addiction|
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| Beating White Sugar Addiction |
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| The difference between a reformed addict and the addict-in-denial is that the reformed addict fears his addiction, while the addict-in-denial fears something or someone is going to take his addiction away. I am a reformed sugar addict. I admit I’m somewhat fearful of sugar and that in itself might earn me the label of ‘fanatic’ (walking around grabbing sugar out of the mouths of babes and elderly citizens has not helped my image, I have to admit) but from a very young age I knew that sugar had a hold over me that I could not easily disentangle myself. “Stop eating sugar” wasn’t an option for me. Sugar was in everything I ate and looked at, as a small child. “Stop eating sugar” is not an option for most of us who haven’t learned to eat food without sugar, without a decided and committed vigilence to making changes in our eating choices. If you look around, there are very few food products offered to us that hasn’t got some kind of sugar in it. White flour has very similar characteristics as sugar; for white flour converts to sugar once it’s digested. White sugar and white flour are the drugs of choice in our culture and correspond to the high incidence of carbohydrate and sugar addiction that is commonly diagnosed by doctors -- along with diabetes, hyperglocemia, low blood sugar and a myriad of other complaints that are directly associated with the high intake of white sugar and white flour in our diets. Consuming sugar becomes an addiction according to the state of malnutrition that it promotes. The more malnourished you are, the more you crave sugar and carbohydrates. A healthy person (i.e., adequately nourished) has a natural aversion towards eating too much sugar. A healthy person is aware that eating too much sugar makes him feel sick for the healthy person feels fairly good to begin with. He eats sugar for the enjoyment of it. He usually needs only a little before he notices his body reacting to the ‘sugar shock’ of white sugar. The healthy ‘user’ takes a breather and stops eating sugar, walks outside, drinks some water, eats some fresh food or protein food to help stabilize his system and help him feel better. Eating more sugar doesn’t appeal to the healthy person for he knows intuitively he must stabilize before eating sugar again. A malnourished person feels sick to begin with. Eating sugar helps the malnourished person feel better -- until the sugar high wears off -- then he’s sicker than before, but the malnourished person doesn’t connect his feeling unwell to his high sugar intake. He considers feeling sick as normal and turns to sugar to get a reprieve from his discomfort, not aware that it is high sugar consumption that is making him sick. The malnourished person is disconnected to his instinctive knowingness because he’s been conditioned to turn to sugar to ease his discomfort. Left unchecked his conditioning becomes an addiction. A sugar addict, in the throes of malnutrition is not aware of the deadening, sickening affect this substance has on his body. He becomes less and less aware that his declining health is a result of his sugar addiction, and becomes more addicted the more malnourished he becomes. Sugar shock is that state of reaction the body engages in, to lower elevated blood sugar level in the `brain. Sugar causes such a sharp spike in our blood sugar level that our body goes into a full alert to correct it. Our pancreas excretes insulin and other organs, including your brain, nervous system and glandular system are activated to work with one another to keep the body and blood sugar level balanced. Our brain depends upon a constant amount of sucrose to function. Too much and we become hyper and anxious, too little we become lethargic and depressed. It is the chemical reactions within our bodies to lower blood sugar level that creates the tiredness, depression and lethargy that is associated with high sugar consumption. Sugar consumption becomes a sugar addiction when the user turns to sugar to distract him from sugar shock. Here are several reasons why our body becomes malnourished when we eat too much sugar. 1) Sugar is so much tastier than natural food; we lose our taste for natural food. If natural food doesn’t taste good, we eat less vital nutritious food and consume fewer nutrients. 2) Sugar is an unstable molecule. Life is extracted from raw sugar to concentrate the taste and create a substance with a long shelf life. Refined sugar is unstable. To stabilize, it attracts nutritious molecules to itself. Sugar begins depleting your body of nutrients as soon as it enters your digestive system. 3) Cookie dough lining your intestines. These unstable sugar molecules left in your digestive system attract to itself other hard to digest particles like white flour and insoluble fat. This creates a cookie dough textured food debris residue that lines your intestines. When nutritious food is eaten, the broken down nutrients attempt to move through this material to get to your bloodstream only to get stuck in this intestinal lining of goo. Once sugar addiction develops, taking away sugar does not result in healing from the disease. Only a correction in the addict’s state of malnutrition will help the sugar junkie break his dependence upon sugar. Vegetable juice corrects the malnutrition that encourages further addiction. This nutritious vital substance corrects malnutrition in many ways. 1) It offers your body vital nutrients in their most natural and potent state, requiring little digestion and assimilation time. 2) The digestive enzymes that are left in your intestines after the nutrients from the juices are absorbed, get to work on breaking down the 'cookie dough' textured intestinal lining that is attracting to itself nutritious molecules, harboring toxins and bacteria, and inhibiting vital nutrients from reaching your bloodstream. White sugar is the drug of choice in our culture. It undermines our emotional and physical health. This drug creates distaste for healthy foods and takes away our desire to gather and prepare nutritional foods. The ‘orgasmic high’ from this drug is so pleasurable, that although the user is aware of his loss of appetite for healthy foods and is aware of the negative affect that sugar has on his body and organs and glands, he insists to himself and to others around him that this drug and his addiction to it is harmless. Unlike other drugs of choice, this drug is freely and widely distributed to children, distorting our children’s taste and desire for healthy foods. The sugar addict is often a head of a household, serving sugar or white flour at every meal to every guest, somewhat annoyed by those who don’t partake or by those who might have an aversion to being fed this powerful drug. Sugar addicts view a diet based on fruits and vegetables unhealthy and unnatural and see their sugar- and white flour-laden food choices as healthy, natural and good for them. When I suggest a raw food diet supplemented by raw vegetable juice to address health and weight problems to a sugar addict, his facial expression is a mix between nausea and disgust. How could a diet on raw fruit and vegetables be healthy???? (The better question is how could it not?) A sugar addict’s focus is not on his health or the health of those that depend on his care. His focus is on eating his favorite white sugar foods, which he consumes at the expense of his health and those around him. To see the world like this, as I do, makes me a very unpopular dinner guest. I’m even less popular as a dinner host! I do not enjoy serving sugar or white flour meals to people I deeply care about. I like to serve fresh fruit and vegetables and freshly extracted juices from raw vegetables and fruits. It is live foods that have life, energy and nutrition. My hope is that feeding my guests live food; they will leave my home feeling rejuvenated and feeling wonderful albeit a little disappointed. To serve a meal that everyone enjoys but is detrimental to their health is a meal not worth serving. I care about my guests and because I’m not a practicing sugar addict, I get no pleasure out of others enjoying a substance that destroys their natural appetite for healthy foods and destroys their motivation to care for themselves or their children. Sugar distorts your taste and fools your brain and body into thinking that you are nourishing it. If the foods you eat are not putting vitamins and minerals into your body, you are feeding it waste product and chemicals. Once you take out all the wheat germ, the bran, the enzymes out of food (as in the case of white flour) and heat and process the life out of it, all that is left is waste product. Tasty waste product, but waste product nonetheless, that ends up sitting in your intestines because there are no enzymes or bran or live matter to help break it down. If the food you eat has preservatives, this food has an even longer shelf life, which benefits food distributors and supermarkets but not your digestive system. Fruit and vegetables and raw vegetable juice will break you of your sugar addiction. Sugar addicts know this instinctively, which is why they shy away from vital foods. They instinctively know that their orgasmic sugar high is more intense when the body is malnourished. The sugar addict chooses a little Debbie snack cake over an apple, because nutritional, natural foods dispel the magic and intense satisfaction of the sugar high. “No,” denies the sugar addict, “I eat the Little Debbie cake because it tastes good! Not because of the sugar high.” How can these products taste good? They have nothing in them but sugar and chemicals. There are no real ingredients. A person eats a Little Debbie cake for the same reason that people drink Tab. They drink it for the chemical kickback -- not the taste. In the case of TAB the kickback is caffeine; in the case of a Little Debbie cake, it’s sugar. Let me make something clear. I AM A SUGAR ADDICT. I say this the same way a recovered alcoholic admits to being an alcoholic. I may not be using sugar at the moment, but I could start using it very easily, and the times I do, I become instantly affected. My body begins craving sugar laden and white flour foods after just one or two sugar indulgences. It sometimes takes 2 or 3 days to get one sugar dessert out of my system and from its affect on my appetite. I write about sugar, not out of superiority, but out of my admitted lack of control over this drug and its affect on my system. I am averse to white sugar because I understand how strong its power is over me and those that I love. To use the word sugar addict may sound offensive to most readers of this page. I’m very conscious of the unpopularity of my outspoken view against white sugar. Chances are, most people you know and are connected to, are sugar addicts. That’s what makes it hard to see. If everyone is doing this, how can there be a problem? ‘Everyone does it.’ I see how pervasively this drug is used in our schools, hospitals and homes. Children are powerless in terms of this drug because they depend upon others to feed them. If their caretakers routinely feed them this drug, they will have little chance of breaking from this addiction because sugar addiction leads to malnutrition and malnutrition deadens body intelligence and our ability to choose foods wisely. It is the realization that our children are powerless from becoming sugar addicts that forces me to step out and SPEAK. It is on behalf of our children, who are horrendously malnourished and seriously addicted, that I speak. Sugar leads to malnutrition because sugar takes our appetite away for healthy plant food. It does! Ask anyone who eats a lot of sugar if they enjoy raw food. Ask anyone who eats a lot of sugar whether they think a diet based on fruits and vegetables is healthy. Ask a person who consumes a lot of sugar whether he is able to drink pure water. You will hear a resounding NO! Being a recovered sugar addict for over a year now, I know first hand that I can be turned on to sugar in a heartbeat if I’m not constantly vigilant about keeping it out of my diet. And keeping it out of my diet is next to sounding like an alien to most people I meet and deal with every day. The only way to keep it out of my diet is to eat as much fruit and vegetables as I can because basically everything else offered to us through fast food restaurants or packaged foods has got sugar in it. And if it hasn’t sugar, it has sugar's evil cousin, white flour. White flour converts to sugar upon digestion so these two products are very connected. I understand that most Americans are seriously addicted to sugar yet only a few can see this. It doesn’t make me or you right or wrong, its just makes some of us aware and some of us unaware. I’m aware and I’ve taken on the responsibility and my life purpose of making others aware of their addiction and its detrimental affect on our lives and the lives of our children. An addict can truly make his own choice, whether to live or die by his addiction, but it is creating this same addiction in our children that forces me to express my voice. I am a freak in this society. “You don’t eat sugar?” (In other words, are you sick?) I do eat sugar, but very carefully and mindfully. I am aware of the detrimental affects on my body and appetite. I not only don’t like eating sugar instead of eating vital fresh food; I have a hard time tolerating anyone who does! I see mothers feeding their young children sugar instead of food and I want to say something. Do something. But I see mothers, teachers and nurses, feeding children this insanely health depleting drug and doing it with love! How can you say anything? For a long time I didn’t say anything, only to the few around me, and after annoying everyone I know, I’m turning to the cyber net public at large because frankly, I’m running out of people to annoy. ***** Welcome! Thanks for granting me your attention. Welcome to a reality of optimal health and vital living. You have come here to the right place to learn more about your body and how to keep it healthy, vital and youthful. Check out the rest of this site and the other related pages to see how raw fruits and vegetables and vital juicing can help release you from the cycle of sugar addiction and malnutrition. |
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