USA TODAY ACKNOWLEDGES PROBLEM - OFFICIALS IGNORE SOLUTION

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USA TODAY ACKNOWLEDGES PROBLEM - OFFICIALS IGNORE SOLUTION

 

Shane Ellison M. Sc.

NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane18.htm

 

On June 27, 2005, USA Today sounded the obesity alarm. Requiring larger

belt sizes costs Americans about $36.5 billion per year. This equates to

the amount of money needed to fund 730,000 more public school teachers

or to simply pay current teachers what they deserve. Instead, obese

consumers blindly give it to drug companies in an attempt to treat

(mask) the deadly symptoms of being overweight – that being diabetes,

heart disease, and cancer. Masking symptoms is suicide in slow motion.

 

U.S. health officials could reverse the death sentence and the

exorbitant spending overnight by educating consumers on the cause of

obesity – sugar. Instead, they mandate the socially accepted habit of

prescription drug addiction for obese and misinformed Americans. Don’t

be a lamb. Re-think your use (and your child’s use) of sugar.

 

The term sugar refers to sucrose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup and

milk sugars such as lactose and maltose. Unlike natural sugars consumed

via whole fruits, these quickly absorbed flavors are forging an

emotional addiction between you and them. The strength of the sugar

addiction is akin to that seen with heroin and morphine.[1] It makes you

feel good artificially. It is no wonder that street heroin is often

laced with sugar (sucrose).[2] Food and soda companies profit immensely

from this dependence. And drug companies too, thanks to the negative

consequence of “artificial feel good.”

 

Once the addiction sets in, sugar consumption increases exponentially

along with fat gain. This is no coincidence or statistical association.

It’s the reason. Sugar is the cog in your metabolic wheel. Rather than

burn (via thermogenesis) excess calories consumed, the dysfunctional

metabolism tells your brain to eat, eat, eat and your body to store,

store, store. Don’t believe me? Find an obese person and challenge them

to avoid sugars for a single day. It won’t happen.

 

Over time, sugar-induced fat gain leads to the aforementioned “sugar

eating illnesses” like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Despite its

alarming consequence to wealth and health, officials ignore and even

work to silence the sugar threat. Some ghastly examples exist.

 

In a PBS health documentary entitled Seven Steps to Perfect Health, Gary

Null and Associates (GNA) announced that sugar is an unhealthy component

of the modern American diet. General Counsel for the Sugar Association

quickly moved to censor GNA. Seven Steps was removed from certain public

television stations, such as WETA in Washington, D.C. The public

remained ignorant of the growing health threat due to sugar addiction.

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that sugar is the

number one contributing factor to obesity. Furious over the claim made

by the WHO, the sugar industry threatened to “challenge” the $460

million funding given to the WHO by the United States for making this

“dubious” claim. Reacting to the financial threat, the WHO remained

silent on the dangers of sugar. The world remained ignorant of the

growing health threat due to sugar addiction.

 

That same $460 million from the sugar industry appears to have silenced

the self-proclaimed watchdog of U.S. health, the Center for Disease

Control (CDC). To substantiate, on June 2, 2005, Dr. Gerberding of the

CDC gave a telebriefing regarding the mass weight gain among U.S.

children and adults. In his briefing, entitled Overweight and Obesity:

Clearing the Confusion, he doesn’t make a single mention of sugar or its

effect on fat gain. Instead, in “clearing the confusion” he asserts that

the science of fat loss is inconclusive. This is not the conclusion you

would expect from a scientist of the CDC. It is scary to think what

ideas the “doctor” would have mustered up without all those years of

higher education. The obese will continue to remain ignorant of the

growing health threat due to sugar addiction.

 

Don’t count on the American Heart Association (AHA) to sound the alarm.

Perform a quick search for “sugar” at www.americanheart.org and you get

their special recipe for Sugar-Dusted Mocha Brownies. Those at risk for

heart disease will remain ignorant of the growing health threat due to

sugar addiction.

 

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has exercised a perverse display

of power. A chief ADA researcher claimed, “Sugar has nothing to do with

diabetes.” This statement was based on wealth not health. Prior to the

statement, the ADA formed a three-year, multi-million dollar alliance

with Cadbury Schweppes America’s Beverage - a major manufacturer of

sugary sodas and candies.[3] Diabetics will remain ignorant of the

growing health threat due to sugar addiction.

 

Diabetics and people worldwide don’t be fooled; avoid sugar at all costs

– break the sugar addiction. Doing so will normalize blood glucose

levels. Anita Manning, writing for USA Today on June 14 reported,

" Early, intensive treatment to keep blood sugar levels close to normal

in people with diabetes can cut their risk of cardiovascular disease by

about 50% and the risk of heart attack and stroke by 57%, much better

results than those achieved by any cholesterol or blood pressure drug,

researchers reported Sunday. " Imagine what quitting sugar would do for

longevity among those who are not diabetic.

 

To avoid prescription drug servitude and illness, tackle the obesity

problem by breaking the sugar addiction. Doing so may be the most

inexpensive and valuable step toward living healthy. No, let me rephrase

that: “Doing so is the best damn thing you could do for your finances

and health.”

 

 

 

Breaking an addiction dictates that you have a replacement. Only a few

acceptable alternatives to sugar exist. They are stevia, xylitol or

agave. High-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose

(Splenda™), monosodium glutamate (MSG), and hydrolyzed vegetable

proteins do not count. Read the fine print on food labels and discard

products with these ingredients. Stop lapping up sodas, fruit juice and

ice cream cones and trash the “low-carb” sugar-ladened nutrition bar. In

other words, think before you eat.

 

 

 

Once the sugar addiction is broken over a long period of time, plan on

looking and feeling 5-10 years younger. The death threat and expensive

medical bills due to obesity will vanish. Corporate drug pushers will be

forced to take huge pay cuts.

 

Footnotes:

 

1, Erlanson-Albertsson C. Sugar triggers our reward-system. Sweets

release opiates which stimulates the appetite for sucrose--insulin can

depress it. Lakartidningen. 2005 May 23-29;102(21):1620-2, 1625, 1627.

And www.health-fx.net/sugar.html Ruegg H, Yu WZ, Bodnar RJ.

Opioid-receptor subtype agonist-induced enhancements of sucrose intake

are dependent upon sucrose concentration. Physiology and Behavior. 1997

Jul;62(1):121-8.

2, ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse

3, American Diabetes Association Says Sugar Isn't Linked to Diabetes.

 

 

 

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Shane holds a Master’s degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand

industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. He

understands that Americans want and deserve education rather than

prescriptions. His shocking ebook surrounding cholesterol lowering drugs

can be downloaded for FREE as a pdf file at www.health-fx.net/eBook.pdf.

His book Health Myths Exposed is available at www.healthmyths.net

 

 

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