A touch too sweet – refined sugar
Sugar this and sugar that Many of you successfully have been through the Mental Detox program and have lost inches weight gained energy and changed your performance Yet that might have been a while back and some of you are returning to old patterns Perhaps you are eating ice cream candy bars drinking alcohol and so on Here is some scientific ammunition to help fuel your decision to stay away from refined sugars Emilia Klapp wwwemiliaklappcom author of the book Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet living in Spain just posted an interesting article by George E Meining DDS FACD and published by the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation wwwppnforg that shows a scientific but quite simple explanation of the problems of ingesting refined sugar Read away And stay active Stefan Sugar by George E Meinig DDS FACD The sugar you eat is sucrose a disaccharide C-12H-220-11 The sugar in your blood is a monosaccharide C-6H-120-6 Sorry to get so technical but I hope in seeing the chemical formula you will recognize that a difference exists At any one time the glucose level in your blood stream should be 90 mg per 100 ml This means the total amount in your blood is about 5 grams or about one to three teaspoonfuls Now when you eat a candy bar containing eight teaspoonfuls of sugar or pie at 10 or ice cream at eight you send in a high charge of eight to 20 spoons of sugar into a system that is geared to maintain itself with only one to three teaspoonfuls a chaotic problem is encountered This overload must be dealt with first by your pancreas and its hormone insulin Then when the insulin gets too high the adrenal gland must manufacture and distribute into the bloodstream its insulin-governing hormones Normal natural food is not so highly concentrated and more importantly contains essential vitamins minerals and enzymes which help the stomach to utilize what you have eaten This in turn helps each cell to obtain its proper nutrients The continual overcharging of ones glands with sugar has a depressing influence on your metabolism That is instead of speeding it up it actually slows it down resulting among other things in a lower than normal blood sugar The slowdown foods are sugar refined breads and packaged cereals pie cookies pastry ice cream candies coffee tea alcohol and soft drinks If you really want a pickup use the speedup foods instead for they stimulate metabolism Meat fish seafood poultry fresh fruits and vegetables cheeses eggs butter seeds nuts etc all invigorate and vitalize the system The actual time of absorption and development of energy from these foods is but a little more than with sugar itself Besides an important fringe benefit of the good speed-up foods is better handling of stress and ones vigor is sustained over longer periods of time
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