Website design By BotEap.comIf you make only one improvement to your diet this year, I hope it’s replacing refined sugar with raw food sweeteners. If you do, I can guarantee that smoother digestion, more relaxed muscles, more peaceful emotions, and greater mental clarity will soon follow.

Website design By BotEap.comBefore we look at the negative health consequences of eating refined sugar, let’s take a quick look at how it’s made. This will give you an idea of ​​why it affects the body the way it does. Most sugar comes from sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), which is a tall, dense grass that grows in tropical regions. Sugarcane juice is traditionally used as a sweetener from India to the Caribbean. And interestingly enough, raw sugar cane juice is quite good for you, as it is alkalizing and has a relatively low glycemic index.

Website design By BotEap.comBut in the 1500s, manufacturers began refining sugar cane so it could be more easily shipped abroad, especially back to Europe. Over the years, the process has become increasingly complex and chemically dependent. This is what happens between cutting sugar cane in the fields and delivering refined sugar to your local store.

Website design By BotEap.comAfter the harvest, machines in a sugar mill wash, cut, grind, and extract the juice from the cane stalks. This liquid is then heated to a boil and treated with chemical solvents to remove impurities. It is then moved into huge tanks and reheated to evaporate the water content. This leaves a thick syrup which is put into a centrifuge to turn the syrup into crystals.

Website design By BotEap.comThese crystals are then transported to a sugar refinery where they are heated to a boil again, treated with lye and other chemicals, and then filtered through bone char, which is a powder made from cow or pig bones. After filtering, the syrup is centrifuged again to produce white refined sugar. Brown sugar is created by adding molasses before putting it in the centrifuge.

Website design By BotEap.comGiven the fact that it’s heated to a boil at least three times, treated with chemicals, filtered through bone meal, and forced to crystallize, it’s no wonder that refined sugar has literally lost its life force.

Website design By BotEap.comRefined sugar, white or brown, has literally zero nutritional value, no minerals, no vitamins, no fiber, no enzymes, no fat, nothing of value to the body. Instead, it is toxic to the body. You can live longer with plain water alone than with water mixed with sugar.

Website design By BotEap.comThis is what refined sugar does in the body:

Website design By BotEap.comIt produces an acidic condition in the digestive system. This drains the body of vitamins and minerals and the consequences can be life-threatening. For example, sugar metabolism requires calcium to be leached from the bones and teeth, which can lead to tooth decay or osteoporosis. Sugar also depletes the body of potassium and magnesium, which are necessary for proper heart function and are therefore a major factor in heart disease.

Website design By BotEap.comIt compromises the body’s immune system and stresses the pancreas by forcing it to produce a surge of digestive enzymes. This can lead to the formation of gallstones and diabetes.

Website design By BotEap.comIt depletes stores of B vitamins, which is our brain food, and can interfere with memory, concentration, and other mental functions.

Website design By BotEap.comIt makes the blood very thick and sticky, which inhibits much of the blood flow to the tiny capillaries that supply vital nutrients to our skin, gums, and teeth. Refined sugar has been shown to increase wrinkles and dry out aging skin.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen excess sugar is eaten, it is first stored in the liver. With continued consumption, the liver expands like a balloon and begins to malfunction. A malfunctioning liver can quickly lead to high blood pressure, skin disorders, and acne, to name a few.

Website design By BotEap.comAlso, most people consume far more sugar than their bodies can use for energy. When this happens, the liver either converts the extra sugar into molecules called triglycerides and stores it as fat, or makes cholesterol from sugar byproducts and deposits it in veins and arteries. Sugar is therefore an important factor in obesity and arteriosclerosis.

Website design By BotEap.comIt also negatively affects behavior. Refined sugar consumption has been linked to violent behavior, hypertension, and learning disabilities. In one study, prison violence was markedly reduced simply by removing refined sugar and starch from prison diets. And Singapore in 1991 banned the sale of sugary soft drinks in all schools and youth centres, citing the danger sugar poses to children’s mental and physical health.

Website design By BotEap.comFinally, refined sugar is an addictive substance. Abruptly giving up sugar often triggers the kind of withdrawal symptoms associated with narcotic drugs: fatigue, tiredness, depression, mood swings, headaches, pain in extremities. This happens when the body removes the leftover toxins from the sugar and begins to regain balance.

Website design By BotEap.comAs you can see, putting processed sugar in your body doesn’t make any sense. It’s kind of like pouring sugar into the gas tank of a million dollar race car. Only do this if you want to mess up your car/bodywork for some reason.

Website design By BotEap.comFortunately for all those with a sweet tooth, there are plenty of natural raw sweeteners out there that are not only harmless to the body, but actually support it. The highest option is to use 100% unrefined and untreated sweeteners. These are the ones I use exclusively:

Website design By BotEap.comfruits,
Nuts such as dates or grapes,
pure cane juice,
Raw cane sugar, unprocessed,
agave syrup,
Stevia and Stevia extract,
yacon syrup,
raw honey,
mesquite powder,

Website design By BotEap.comMost of these are available at any health food store. Just be sure to ask if they’re minimally processed and raw (ie unheated).

Website design By BotEap.comWhatever you choose, rest assured of this: Removing refined sugar from your diet is one of the kindest, most loving things you could do for your body. Pass this information on to anyone in your life that you care about.

Website design By BotEap.comSome interesting facts about sugar:

Website design By BotEap.comSir Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, noted in 1929 that among sugar plantation owners who consumed large amounts of refined sugar, diabetes was common. Among the native cane cutters, who only chewed the raw cane, he did not see diabetes.

Website design By BotEap.comIn 1915, the average sugar consumption was around 7-10 kg per person per year. Today the average person consumes about 70 kg

Website design By BotEap.comIn 2002 almost 132 million tons of sugar were consumed in the world.

Website design By BotEap.comSugar is used in the tanning of leather, printing inks and dyes, and even in the sizing and finishing of textiles.

Website design By BotEap.comMovie stuntmen use glass bottles and windows made from sugar.

Website design By BotEap.comChemical manufacturers use sugar to grow penicillin

Website design By BotEap.comSugar hardens asphalt. Slows down the setting of ready-mix concrete and glue.

Website design By BotEap.comAbout 30% of refined sugar comes from sugar beets. The rest comes from sugar cane.

Website design By BotEap.comOne 12 oz. Cola contains 11 teaspoons of sugar.

Website design By BotEap.comSugar was one of the first pharmaceutical ingredients used, as it still is today, to mask the bitter taste of medicines.