Posted on 06/27/2007 12:28:52 PM PDT by ZGuy
That's a reasonable way of thinking, as long as you are eating FOOD. Refined sugar is not a food. it has no nutritional value at all. You are best to elimiate it from your diet completely. It truly is a sweet poison. It's ok to have some once in a while, like a pop once in a week or less often, a candy bar. If you must have sweets, eat sweet foods like fruits, or stuff sweetened with fructose.
Google this mysterious doctor; every hit in every language leads you back to the single article and every entry is from one of these “supplements will make you healthy, wealthy and dumb enough to buy what we sell” sites that prey on the sick and elderly.
This Martin guy seems to have no history beyond this one writing.
Without being a member of AMA or a subscriber to JAMA i can’t read the only obit I could find; but he did die August 24, 1997.
There were a great number of ‘back to nature’ successful people in the late 50s and 60s, some up to the 70s and today who think you can eat your way to eternity but reality will show that they all see the shovel before they see salvation.
Then read other articles, such as the first link provided.
If you ‘don’t buy’ the FACT that sugar is nothing but empty, useless calories, that’s unfortunate. You just can’t find any more simple a truth as that.
The simple fact remains however, that sugar is not a food.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/sugarblues.html
But, if you insist, refined sugar is wonderful, healthy stuff. eat as much as you can. It contains all the vitmins, minerals you need.
The hell with facts. America's growing diabetes epidemic and large butts, sickly, fat children are solid proof of just how wonderfull refined sugar is, a true miracle of american frood processing.
When I woke up the next morning I felt like I had a hangover. Kids’ breakfast cereal is pure poison. You might as well feed them strawberry daiquiris and flintstone vitamins.
6 years is a long time for a hamster. Average was 3.5 years I think.
Crunchatize me Captain!!!!!!!!
True. However, LOL, they have to be "fortified" in order to legally sell the product as FOOD. That's because, of course, the product without "fortification" is DEVOID of any vitamin or mineral nutrients & packed with acrylimides & other cancer-causing agents from the high-temp manufacturing process! So they "FORTIFY" it.
For anyone who wants to "Eat To Live" a copy of Dr. Fuhrman's book by the same title is available at "www.drfuhrman.com"...plus lots of other info about the health-promoting reality of a diet that maximizes Nutrients Per Calorie.
That’s idiotic; what I am saying is that on any of the sites where he is linked, this same article crops up as though it has the imprimatur of the entire medical community attached to it when the AMA has made no such statement.
Certainly, no one suggests that one make a steady diet of refined white sugar but to label it a poison is a position far removed from common sense dietary advice or practice.
It remains a physical fact that no matter what you eat, your system converts it to glucose before “combusting” it.
It is entirely possible to subsist on glucose and supplements but ordinary food works quite nicely for most and supplements are unnecessary in those who have a balanced diet.
They’re a lot more tender when they’re only about 6 months old; deep fried with cracker crumbs and poultry seasoning works really well.
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