How white flour (maida) may cause diabetes.

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White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxanJoAnn GuestAug 03, 2006 10:17 PDT=====================================================================White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxanPosted Thursday, June 02, 2005 by Dani Veracity, Key concepts:alloxan,diabetes and white flour.You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on whitebread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flourlook "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the pancreas.That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourselfat risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is it worth it?Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years;in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical toinduce the disorder in lab

animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to cause illness.Every day, consumers ingest foods made with alloxan-contaminated flour.Would they just as willingly consume foods tainted with a deadly virus?Unless they had a death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately,most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link todiabetes because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma's Freedomfrom Disease, the uric acid derivative initiates free radical damage to DNA in the beta cells of the pancreas, causing the cells to malfunction and die.When these beta cells fail to operate normally, they no longer produceenough insulin, or in other words, they cause one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes.

Alloxan's harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of Natural Medicine calls the chemical "a potent beta-cell toxin."However, even though the toxic effect of alloxan is common scientific knowledge in the research community, the FDA still allows companies to use it when processing foods we ingest.The FDA and the white flour industry could counter-argue that, if alloxan were to cause diabetes, a higher proportion of Americans would be diabetic. After all, more consumers consume white flour on a regular basis than are actually diabetic. This point is valid, but it does not disprove the alloxan-diabetes connection.While alloxan is one cause of adult-onset type 2 diabetes, it is of course not the only cause. As the Textbook of Natural Medicine states, "current theory suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to injury coupled with some defect in tissue regeneration capacity" may be a key cause.For alloxan to cause

injury to an individual's beta cells, the individual must have the genetic susceptibility to injury. This is similar to the connection between high-cholesterol foods and heart disease. Eating high-cholesterol foods causes heart disease, especially in people who have family histories of heart disease. The linkbetween alloxan and diabetes is as clear and solid as the link between cholesterol and heart disease.Related book:How to Halt Diabetes In 25 Days Link back to this article: http://www.NewsTarget.com/008191.htmlJoAnn Guestmrsjo-www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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