White sugar is a chemical. A man-made chemical. Its natural color is not white. Many processors use bleach to make sugar. Sugar causes diabetes, attention deficit disorder and ulcers. Soda has a minimum of 12 teaspoons of sugar per can. Sugar forces the metabolism into overdrive and accelerates the rate of aging. A candle that burns twice as bright lasts half as long.
Eating chocolate, cake, candy or any other sweet increases the amount of sugar in the blood stream. This necessitates the hormone insulin to be released, which causes sugar to be stored away and blood sugar levels to be lowered. Eating sugar can trigger cravings for more sweets in order to stabilize blood sugar balance. It creates a vicious cycle of over consumption of sweets and weight gain.
Good alternative for white sugar are raw honey, stevia, maple sugar, maple syrup, xylitol and dried fruit sugar such as date sugar.
Artificial sweeteners that contain aspartame, saccharine and sucralose ( i.e. Nutra Sweet, Equal, Sweet and Low and Splenda) should never be consumed.
NutraSweet and Equal contain aspartame. On study concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard because of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts.”
[Life Sci. (scientific journal), Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 337+, 1998]
Sweet n’ Low contains saccharine. In 1972 the FDA removed saccharine from their “Generally Recognized as Safe” list. Products containing saccharin have to post the words “may be hazardous to your health” and “has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals” on their labels and it is classified by the FDA as a “weak carcinogen.”
Splenda research showed that sucralose (the scientific name for Splenda) caused shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage) and enlarged liver and kidneys in laboratory animals. (”New Scientist” 23 November 1991, page 13)
Stevia and xylitol are great alternative to artificial sweeteners. Stevia is an herb that is 100-300 times sweeter than sugar. It is safe for diabetics, contains no calories or carbohydrates and doesn’t cause tooth decay. Stevia makes up 40% of the Japanese sweetener market. In the USA the sugar and artificial sweeter monopolies have conspired to keep it from the public. You can find both stevia and xylitol on the Internet and in the supplement section of the health food store.
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