Sweet poison that is destroying our body and mind

Like refined grains, Refined sugar is considered one of the most harmful foods consumed today.

In 1915, the national average of sugar consumption per year was 15 to 20 pounds per person. On average, we now consume our weight in sugar each year, plus over 20 pounds of corn syrup. Some people consume much less than the average figure, which means that there is a percentage of the population that consumes a great deal more refined sugar than their body weight each year. This large amount of refined carbohydrates causes considerable damage in the body.

Food or Poison?

In 1957, Dr. William Coda Martin tried to determine when a food is a poison and when it is a true food. Here is his definition of poison:

Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.

Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction.

And the Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives this definition for poison: “a substance that through its chemical action usually kills, injures, or impairs an organism.”

Dr. Martin classified refined sugar (a refined carbohydrate) as a poison because it has been depleted of its nutritional co-factors. He wrote that what is left after the “refinement” process, our bodies can’t use, because we can’t digest it.

Your body needs the vitamins and minerals that are stripped away when sugar is made. Without those co-factors, your body cannot safely use refined sugar. Refined sugar is “more of a pharmaceutical drug than it is a nurturing food.”

Sugar gives us brief increases in energy due to the rise of the blood sugar level, but the body quickly releases a rush of insulin, which rapidly lowers the blood sugar and causes a significant drop in energy and endurance and, as a corollary, a decrease in mental acuity. A degenerative process is initiated and over time, if not prevented, will likely manifest in illness.

One woman experienced just such a process. She wrote, “All of my ailments were caused by the substances I put into my body … led to a measurable disturbance of the mineral relationships in my system. This … made my digestive enzymes incapable of digesting food properly. I developed classic allergic symptoms due to the toxicity and the undigested food, which was wearing out my immune system. Eventually, this mineral imbalance caused the build-up of a severe nonfunctioning calcium excess in my chest…. This process ended in tooth decay, pneumonia, bronchitis, and a variety of other ailments.”

Only after she removed sugar from her diet did her body heal itself.

Learn more about the dangers of sugar on your mind in the following posts.

until than stay healthy&fit.