Quote from the Book, ‘Sugar Busters!’
In 1995 a book was released and became a #1 Best Seller on the New York Times list. That book was called ‘Sugar Busters!’ I read this book and it fundamentally changed my understanding of how sugar in our diets effects our health. This book was quite controversial when first published. It challenged to medical community to face up to its lack of willingness to admit that the over consumption sugar, especially in processed foods was ruining our citizens health. The authors (4) also took on the the powerful food industry. Back 1n 1995, these authors were considered “mavericks.” Just look at what is happening in 2008. In spite of all the medical advances during the past 13 years, diabetes, heart disease and strokes are at a all time high. Something is wrong with our food system.
I quote from ‘Sugar Busters!’, “Let’s get the point. Sugar is toxic. Sugar? Some sugar? Most sugar? All sugar? Toxic? Well we will say that refined sugar in any significant quantity is toxic to many human bodies, and it certainly helps make many bodies fat. Moreover, significant quantities of sugar are derived in our digestive systems from carbohydrates and starches. Certain of these foods cause a definite strain on the health of the body, probably the mind, and certainly the waistline. Fructose, sugar in fruit, will not normally hurt you, but eaten at the wrong time or in the wrong combinations can create digestive and metabolic problems. Therefore, what we are recommending is a low-sugar diet. Surprisingly, that cannot be achieved by simply putting away your sugar cannister.”
“How can sugar, something that tastes so god and has been fed so readily to most of us since childhood by our most trusted person on earth, our mother, possibly be so bad for us? Aside from a few bad side effects, such as dissolving our teeth, sugar largely acts as a stimulus in causing our pancreas gland to secrete one of the body’s most powerful hormones, insulin.” …”Most significantly, insulin signals our livers to make the other big”C” word, cholesterol”. …”When our borderline diabetics get to where they cannot control their diabetes with pills, diet, and excercise, and we will have to give them insulin injections, we know the first major side effect be that their cholesterol will become quite elevated, and as the insulin shots continue, Type II diabetics will start getting more obese”.
This book is a very compelling study of how to avoid obesity and diabetes. It is not conventional. The concepts it presents is not rocket science. It is real solid information that other doctors seemed to have been ignoring at the time the book was written. It provides recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I give you a lesson on the food industry in this country. It provides you with a viable road map on how to live a healthy life. I hope you get a chance to read it.
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Source: ‘Sugar Busters’ 1995, by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., and Luis A. Balart, M.D.
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