Sugar is bad for you - you know you shouldn't eat it. Refined sugar, white sugar, Equal, SweetnLow, corn syrup, sucrose, and all manufactured sugars halt the immune system for 4 hours after ingested. Your precious organs are forced into emergency mode when you pour this chemical into your stomach. The pancreas secretes insulin for each influx of sugar; if you eat refined sugars which are contained in processed foods at every meal then you are stalling your immune system all day as well as causing your pancreas to work overtime. The blood starts to rush the glucose influx around in an effort to either utilize the sugars or flush the toxins from your body. Read The Zone by Barry Sears.
"Cancer cells feed directly on blood glucose,
like a fermenting yeast organism. Elevating blood glucose in a cancer
patient is like throwing gasoline on a smoldering fire."
Beating Cancer with
Nutrition
Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD,
CNS
But how do you stop?
- Substitute - Eat fruit, honey, 100% maple syrup, beets, raisins, whole fruit smoothies, Stevia, and herbal teas.
- Trick - your body into not wanting sweets. Eat long grain brown rice. Learn to steam millet, quinoa and buckwheat. Steamed grains provide B vitamins which are satiating and filling. Pour a little raw coconut milk over a bowl of cold rice - tastes like mom's rice pudding.
- Eliminate - Drink a lot of water. I mean a LOT. Measure your water intake each day and go for 60 oz per day for 60 days in a row. Make a note of the changes in your skin condition, hunger levels and frequency of urination (which will taper off after 7 days). Filling your stomach with water will keep you from snacking and will cause you to urinate a lot of the congested sugars in your system that are causing you to crave more.
- Discipline - yourself to never drink another soda. Diet soda pop is worse for you than fully caffeinated, fully sugared soda. Why? Because researchers have found that when you drink a soda that has fake sugar, your pancreas reacts with a spurt of insulin which is not used up by the artificial sugar. Later on, your body will want to right itself and will send messages to your brain that you need sugar. Unfortunately, your body is right! You need sugar to absorb the insulin which is floating around unused. Get rid of all soda. Weigh yourself in 3 months. You will weigh less regardless of the kind of soda or amount you used to drink.
It makes me crazy that people who are seriously sick are not advised by their doctors to eliminate sugar from diets. If my kids go to the pediatrician when they are sick, the doctor hands them a lollypop at the end of the visit. What is wrong with us? It is a scientific fact that refined sugar is harmful to the human body. It is currently accepted oncological data that white sugar feeds cancer cells. Then why don't we advise people to help themselves? Why are we taking baskets of food to sick neighbors and not being advised to help them nutritionally? Am I the only one thinking this is insane?
"Tumors are primarily obligate glucose metabolizers,
meaning 'sugar feeders'. The average American Consumes 20% of calories
from refined white sugar, which is more of a drug than a food."Beating Cancer with Nutrition
Patrick Quillan, PhD, RD, CNS
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