If you could make one simple change in your diet to help you
melt fat, sleep better, and improve your memory … wouldn’t you do it? What if
that same simple dietary change could increase your energy, conquer depression,
save your eyesight, restore your mental alertness, get your bedroom energy
rockin’, and increase your lifespan?
This may sound too good to be true. But it’s not. And you
don’t have to take drugs. Nor do you have to try some newfangled experimental
supplements. Or stop eating. Or even give up the foods you love.
It’s as simple as reducing the amount of sugar you eat.
This is not a trick.
I said you don’t have to give up the foods you love. And
that includes sweets.
You can actually give up sugar and keep your sweet tooth
happy. This is the greatest health secret of all time. And I’m gonna teach you how
to incorporate it into your life. Before I tell you how, I want you to know
just why you should give up sugar.
It’s not just because of all the aforementioned benefits.
It’s because sugar can have serious health consequences. Have you ever been
plagued by hard-to-diagnose health problems? You know something is wrong, but
your doctor can’t seem to figure out what’s causing them?
* You can’t lose weight, no matter how hard you exercise
or diet
* Feel depressed, even though you’re typically a happy
person
* Can’t get a solid night’s sleep
* Feel sluggish at work
* Lack mental focus
* Have lost your libido
* Suffer from rising blood pressure
Well, it’s not all in your head. It could be your sugar
addiction, leading to sugar toxicity.
My six-year-old can recite all the
dangers of sucrose (table sugar) in a matter of two minutes. He can also warn
you of the risks associated with those artificial sweeteners in pretty packets.
And because he still likes to get his “sweet fix,” he can tell you which
natural sweeteners are best to use in tea, cookies, and cake. Not bad,
considering that the self-appointed custodians of our health – physicians – are
totally clueless about the sweetener epidemic that is sabotaging us. If a first
grader can master the problems with sugar and understand how to choose the
right alternatives, you can too.
The Sugar Addiction
We all have the need to get a sweet
fix. It’s part of our biological makeup. When consumed, sweets elicit a
chemical cascade of events that lead to the triggering of feel-good receptors
within the brain. If this happens repeatedly, an emotional bond between
happiness and sugar is formed. We become fully dependent on sweets. Sugar
addiction is best illustrated by children who break down with temper tantrums
if not given sugar, women who consume chocolate in times of stress, and men who
suck down soda to make it through the “afternoon blues.” In a study comparing
the addictive properties of sweeteners, saccharin and sucrose proved more
addictive than cocaine!
Sugar Toxicity Leads to Sex Change
The irony is that your body doesn’t
actually need any sugar. What you do need is glucose for energy. And you can
obtain it from fruit and vegetables. If left unchecked, an addiction to sweets
can actually induce a sex-change of sorts…Men become estrogen dominant, women
testosterone dominant. Man-boobs ensue. Women sprout facial hair…That’s just
the start.
In time, wanton sugar consumption
spikes blood sugar and the fat-storing hormone insulin, disrupts satiety
(causing users to overeat), and gives rise to age-accelerating molecules known
as AGE products (advanced glycation end products). In my book, Over-The-Counter
Natural Cures, I showed what supplements were best for countering the
hormonal attack.
..And if you’ve
suffered from sugar toxicity for years, Hormone
Intelligence Therapy (HIT) was designed to reverse it in 90 Days. (Only if
you’re motivated.)
Ultimately, “sweetener addiction”
leads to the hard-to-diagnose symptoms listed above, and a host of dreaded
diseases like insulin resistance, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. To avoid
the sabotage, you must understand how to get your sweet fix without becoming
addicted.
Years ago, people didn’t eat much
sugar – as little as 10-15 pounds per year. And their health was much better
for it. As time passed and sugar production became easier, people gave into
their sweet cravings and began to overindulge. Today, the average consumption
of sugar is a whopping 160 pounds! It’s suicide in slow motion. Sugar addicts eliminate a 11-20 years from their lifespan.
Few people realize how much sugar they
are putting into their body. They are simply giving into an addiction while
slowly ruining their health. To judge whether or not you are at risk, read your
food labels for one day and count how many grams of sugar you are eating.
Insert that number into my People’s Chemist Death by Sugar
Calculator found at http://www.sugarmeasurements.com.
Watch as the graph calculates how many pounds of sugar you are stuffing into
your mouth annually.
But that doesn’t mean you should
replace sucrose with “sugar-free” products loaded with artificial sweeteners to
get your sweet fix. Artificial sweeteners are nothing more than drugs in
disguise. When you see the words “sugar-free,” think of the words
“chemical-shit storm,” which is becoming a viral mantra on Facebook. Splenda is
a perfect example.
Splenda
Splenda contains the drug sucralose.
Invented in a pesticide lab, this chemical is 600 times sweeter than sugar.
To make sucralose, chlorine is used. Chlorine has a split personality. It can
be harmless or it can be life threatening. In combo with sodium, chlorine forms a harmless
ionic bond to yield table salt. When used with carbon, the chlorine atom in
sucralose forms a covalent bond. The end result is deadly organochlorine, known
simply as RNFOC (a Really Nasty Form of Chlorine). Unlike ionic bonds,
covalently bound chlorines are a big no-no for the human body. They yield
insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides – not something you want in
your sports drink or your child’s lunchbox.
Aspartame
Think aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet) is
safe? Think again. Teaching organic chemistry, I taught my students how to
identify the active ingredients in soda using a technique known as TLC ( Thin
Layer Chromatography ). The byproducts of sodas containing aspartame are all
known poisons (that would slowly kill you): methanol, phenylalanine, and
aspartic acid. I never saw my students with a diet soda after that. Safe
alternatives to artificial sweeteners are abundant: erythritol, agave, xylitol
and luo han guo.
Choosing which natural sweetener
to use depends on which one tastes best to you. Agave nectar usually wins, as
long as its natural and not processed. It stimulates taste buds exactly the
same way sucrose does. But unlike common table sugar, very little of its active
ingredient – inulin – is absorbed in the body. Therefore, you are protected
from the dangers of sugar addiction. If it’s heavily processed, the inulin
portion can be broken down and become just as bas as sugar. As a “nectar,”
agave is a bit harder to bake with. This is where the safe and natural
erythritol wins. You can replace it gram for gram with sugar. Even better, I
like to use 25% table sugar and 75% erythritol in baking and ice cream. You
won’t even notice the healthy difference. That’s the real magic here! All natural
sweeteners are known to help control appetite, keep insulin and blood sugar
low, and prevent the formation of age accelerating molecules in our body.
None of them are addicting, nor will they diminish your lifespan. They are perfect for
reversing diabetes, losing fat and feeling great as time creeps by. Getting
your sweet fix doesn’t have to be deadly. If you learn to gauge your sugar
intake with The People’s Chemist Death by Sugar Calculator and start using
natural sweeteners, you won’t be plagued by hard-to-diagnose health problems.
And you’ll have more years to enjoy life and those you love.
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