Sure sugar is bad...especially corn syrup, etc. However, I'm always a bit suspect when people list a bunch of symptoms that can come from ANYTHING and then say, it can cause any of these or the exact opposite symptoms (meaning ALL symptoms). How convenient.
evi1joe: Sure sugar is bad...especially corn syrup, etc. However, I'm always
Great article Connie! I love your first book Sugar Shock and look forward to your new one. As a busy holistic family doctor for over 25 years, I've observed the devastating damage to the human body that comes from processed sugar consumption. And the benefits when people kick the habit. Keep up the great work!
The_Down_to_Earth_doctor: Great article Connie! I love your first book Sugar Shock
Bravo, Connie! A big problem that needs to be talked about. Having been a sugar junkie, and kicking the habit (12 years!), I can whole-heartedly say to what you are promoting is extremely important for maintaining and regaining good health (both mental & physical). Getting off sugar can: Save. Your. Life. And, a tremendous amount of suffering for you and your children as well.
megwolff: Bravo, Connie! A big problem that needs to be talked
Sugar is a villain and a culprit to a lot of diseases of civilization, http://bit.ly/bI4Agf
And cancer cells are very clever; they can absorb glucose out of the bloodstream better than normal cells can. This interesting video gives you more insight http://bit.ly/950WH3
CutTheCarb: Sugar is a villain and a culprit to a lot
Connie,
I heard you on the radio last week speaking about sugar and it's horrible side effects and you were fantastic! It was a great segment and I am looking forward to reading your book.
Holli Thompson, Nutritional Style
HolliThompson: Connie, I heard you on the radio last week speaking
Interesting didn't know about the cancer connection but I know first hand that it also creates a haven for the yeast in your body to feast and run amock... so anything that keeps your body off kilter creates more work for the immune system can't be good...
Erin_Christine: Interesting didn't know about the cancer connection but I know
Thanks for writing, Erin. That's a good way of stating it -- sugar does create "a haven for the yeast" and it does make your body "run amock." Here's another way to put it: If you eat a chronic sugar diet, the Candida can become "opportunistic," as Dr. Deborah Metzger puts it. That can lead to such symptoms as fatigue, brain fog, rashes and more. Sugar is the # 1 contributor to Candida.
As for the cancer-sugar connection, already in the early 1900s, this cancer-sugar connection was recognized. Cancer was known as "white man's disease" among Eskimos living in the Arctic Circle, because there were no known or reported fatalities from it. Then, in 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg became a Nobel Laureate for discovering that cancer cells use glucose as fuel. Now, a growing number of scientists cite a high sugar intake as a factor in the development of cancers of the breast, gallbaldder, prostate, colon, uterus and pancreas. But if you reduce or eliminate sugar, it can reduce or contain cancer growth. As cancer specialist Dr. Keith Block told me, "very few cancers can survive without a steady supply of glucose."
Connie_Bennett: Thanks for writing, Erin. That's a good way of stating
Kathleen, I'm so glad you mentioned the cancer-sugar connection. Cancer is head over heels in love with sugar! Unfortunately, not enough people know about this. How do you know about this? Did you have cancer and then found out that sugar is cancer's best friend?
Connie_Bennett: Kathleen, I'm so glad you mentioned the cancer-sugar connection. Cancer
Yes, Connie, I had breast cancer twice. I am a recurrence survivor. I just did an article on a number of sites on Social Security's Early Compassionate Allowences Initiative. I have been studying much about cancer to help keep myself and others whom I mentor healthy. Thanks for sharing your information with us. We need more books and peole like you.
Kathleen_Okeefe_Kanavos: Yes, Connie, I had breast cancer twice. I am a
And cancer cells are very clever; they can absorb glucose out of the bloodstream better than normal cells can. This interesting video gives you more insight http://bit.ly/950WH3
I heard you on the radio last week speaking about sugar and it's horrible side effects and you were fantastic! It was a great segment and I am looking forward to reading your book.
Holli Thompson, Nutritional Style
As for the cancer-sugar connection, already in the early 1900s, this cancer-sugar connection was recognized. Cancer was known as "white man's disease" among Eskimos living in the Arctic Circle, because there were no known or reported fatalities from it. Then, in 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg became a Nobel Laureate for discovering that cancer cells use glucose as fuel. Now, a growing number of scientists cite a high sugar intake as a factor in the development of cancers of the breast, gallbaldder, prostate, colon, uterus and pancreas. But if you reduce or eliminate sugar, it can reduce or contain cancer growth. As cancer specialist Dr. Keith Block told me, "very few cancers can survive without a steady supply of glucose."
Have you seen this link to recent research on sugar/cancer? http://www.cancer.ucla.edu/Index.aspx?page=644&recordid=385&returnURL=/index.aspx