Sugar Body Poisons

From: Path To Perfect Health Book
Instruction Guide For Natural Healing
Excerpt - Our Daily Poisons; Sugar
author: Deb Devar

OUR DAILY POISONS
Toxic substances enter the body
through environmental pollutants, radiation,
electromagnetic fields, toxic building materials
and even mercury fillings in our teeth. Our
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
torments are not the result of bad food choices
alone; however food is a fundamental element
over which we have direct control. By consuming foods that are dead and over processed, chemically laced with artificial flavorings, preservatives, synthetics, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides our filtration and elimination organs become overburdened. The root of our nations’ health problems show themselves as a compromised immune system and daily fatigue, which are the consequence of consuming poisons on a daily basis.

SUGAR
All forms of sugar stress the body’s delicate balance. Remember that the body will always seek balance. Sugar intake triggers an automatic built in safety switch to protect against immediate poisoning. This switch activates the conversion of excess sugar into fats, such as triglycerides, that will eventually clog the arteries. This is how sugar intake increases risk of heart disease. Sugar puts stress on the pancreas because it produces acid in the body fluids, thus forcing the pancreas to pump out a surge of digestive enzymes. The body uses these digestive enzymes and stored minerals to neutralize acid. Consuming more than just two teaspoons of sugar results in a bloodstream loaded with the following acids: lactic, butyric, acetic and carbonic. As acid levels in the blood elevate, a general drowsiness and sluggishness called a “sugar low” or even more accurate “the alkaline tide” takes over. These are typical symptoms of sugar’s carbonic acid toxicity. Refined sugar is an “empty nutrient” food. Sugar weakens the immune system instantly in two ways.

1. Within one hour of sugar intake, the white blood cell activity drops to below 50% and functions below normal for up to four hours. White blood cells are a central part of immunity.

2. Sugar is the main food source for the pathogenic bacteria fungi that populate our gastrointestinal tract. Sugar contributes to the conversion of dormant, nondestructive yeast into the toxin secreting fungi most commonly known as Candida albicans. Sugar is its main food. The damaging toxins “mycotoxins” or “endo toxins” are the waste by products of fungi. These toxins will drain the immune system and damage tissue and organs.

Ten Behaviors to Modify “Modified” from the book:
What Would Jesus Eat by Don Colbert, M.D.

1	Modify the way you shop for food. Many people have difficulty modifying the way they eat. Instead, I recommend they modify the way they shop for food. One of the simplest and most effective behavioral strategies is this: Keep all junk food, processed food, and tempting foods out of your grocery cart and out of your house. Don’t buy these foods. If you don’t have them readily available, you aren’t going to be as tempted to eat them. Many parents tell me that they believe their children will feel neglected if they don’t have cookies, chips, or ice cream available for them. I simply tell them to buy their children fresh fruit. They’ll quickly adapt and learn to enjoy fruit more than they enjoy ice cream, cookies, chips, and other junk foods.
2	Modify you eating time. Try to eat your evening meal so that you are completely finished with the meal before 7:00 p.m., and do not eat any late-night snacks.
3	Modify your after-dinner activity. Choose to go for a walk after you clean up the dishes from dinner. Enjoy the evening air. Go with your family or a friend, and continue your dinner-table conversation as you walk. You’ll find it an enjoyable alternative to plopping down in front of the television.
4	Only have one helping of each food item, and practice “portion control” on that helping. Serve your plate from the serving bowl on the counter or the pot on the stove, and take your plate to the table to eat. You’ll be less tempted to go back for a second helping.
5	Start leaving a few bites of food on your plate rather than cleaning your plate. If you add up all the uneaten bites over the course of a month, you are likely to have several meals’ worth of food! Many of us were taught as children to clean our plates so we wouldn’t waste food, especially with all the millions of starving children, around the world. I discovered as a young adult that cleaning my plate never did help those starving children, and that the extra food I was eating was actually going to “waist”— as in my waist.
6	Space your meals approximately four hours apart to allow your digestive system to do a thorough job and have a rest.
7	Keep healthy snacks around – fruit, nuts, seeds. Have a light, healthy snack prior to doing your grocery shopping.
8	When you go to the grocery store, understand that as soon as you are leaving the produce section you are walking into the “dead zone”. Use live foods to nourish a living organism.
9	Say “no” to dessert. Don’t order any when you go out. If a hostess offers you dessert, simply say “no” politely.
10	Finally, refuse to eat food for any reason other than to fuel your body and enjoy a meal with family or friends. Too many of us were given comfort foods as children – they tended to be puddings, soft drinks, and sugary foods. Today I see soft drinks in baby bottles and sipper cups. Junk foods are loaded with chemicals that trigger a specific chemical release in our body. Dairy products trigger the same feelings as when we are nurtured, loved and adored. Chocolate triggers the endorphins of romantic love. We learn early on that certain foods alter our moods. We crave these so-called “comfort” foods when the stresses of life become overwhelming. In loneliness or in times of anxiety, we turn to food to subdue our emotions instead of the Lord. When you are feeling stressed out or anxious, go for a brisk walk to work out the adrenaline. When you are feeling sad and lonely, call a friend and better yet, have that friend go on a walk with you. The best ally we have is the power of prayer. Release all the stress of the day and grow in strength through the power of the Holy Spirit. Take each step to gain health through the grace that God provides.