Where We're Getting Our Sugar
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Carbonated sodas are the single biggest source of refined sugars in the American diet. "Energy drinks" http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33300 are no better. And even commercial fruit juices are working against us. Some of these fruit drinks are more additives and sugars (as much as 90% and more) than actual fruit juice.
Sodas are made with refined sugar and damage tooth enamel, and yet they are purchased wantonly to the tune of $69 billion dollars in revenue in 2005.
Are we doing it to ourselves? The answer is yes. And, we're being helped. In 1993, a Colorado Springs school district signed a contract with Coca-Cola® that would allow them to put signage on their school buses and at all their varsity games and throughout the school and events. They put drink machines in the locker rooms and the teachers encouraged students to drink Coke®, even during class, to meet their quotas of beverage sales. The athletics directors emptied the machines regularly to buy equipment.
There has never been any substantive benefit from drinking sodas other than the immediate sugar rush that some people feel, after which they generally crash. Is there a benefit to the student body for brain activity? No, there was no health value involved. It was just business.
So, parents and caregivers must be constantly vigilant because when it comes to business, you and your children may get the short end of the deal. You have to know and teach your children at home, what is in the interest of their best health. When you are grocery shopping, read labels of drinks and sugary snacks carefully as the manufacturers will often mask the sugar content as something else.
When you review snack and drink labels, be on the lookout for the following:
- White sugar
Corn syrup
Molasses
Dextrose
Sucrose
Sorbitol
Turbinado
Amazake
High Fructose Corn Syrup http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33516
Processed Fructose
Maple Syrup
Carob Powder
Refined Sugar Facts:
The average American colon processes approximately 100 pounds of refined sugar and 75 pounds of high fructose corn syrup every year.
In 2004, Americans spent $66 billion on carbonated drinks, and billions more on noncarbonated soft drinks.
How to Eliminate Toxins from Refined Sugar
- Instead of refined sugar, use organic agave nectar, raw cane sugar or locally grown raw honey.
- Eliminate soft drinks from your diet. They provide zero nutritional benefits.
- Drink a lot of purified water.
- Avoid "energy drinks" and store bought "fruit flavored" juices from contrite.
- Eat only all-natural organic sweets containing natural sugars no more than 3 times per week.
- Relieve sugar cravings by eating fresh fruit.
- Cleanse your colon 2 to 3 times weekly with a high quality oxygen-based colon cleanser http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=33506 to reduce the acidic environment in the bowel and also the excessive fermentation of sugars.
- Make your own soft drinks using equal parts fruit juice and water.
- Drink unsweetened herbal tea with lemon http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33580 lime or fresh mint to add flavor.
Recommended Reading
- Refined Sugar: The Sweetest Poison of All http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=33239
- 5 Health Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33516
- The Health Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=33781
- The Health Dangers of Aspartame http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32712
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