White Flour Contains Diabetes-Causing Contaminant Alloxan

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White Flour Contains Diabetes-Causing Contaminant Alloxan

 

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By: Mike Adams

 

White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan You may

want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread.

Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour

look " clean " and " beautiful, " destroys the beta cells of the

pancreas. That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and

putting yourself at 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 to induce 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 to diabetes

because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.

 

How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma's

Freedom from 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 produce enough 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 link between alloxan and diabetes is as clear and solid

as the link between cholesterol and heart disease.

 

If you've been eating white bread for years and you have a family

history of diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that

you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet

with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null's Clinicians Handbook of

Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the

harmful effects of administered alloxan. Now, you're not a lab rat,

but you're a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to your

daily regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a

history of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk

for diabetes.

 

Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet

can help treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made

with white flour. Even though you already have diabetes, vitamin E

supplements can still help you, as can many common foods. Garlic,

for example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr. Benjamin Lau states

in his book Garlic for Health, " When fed garlic, the rabbits'

elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were

given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that

garlic may improve the insulin effect. "

 

If you can't handle the taste of natural garlic, you can take it in

widely available supplements. Aloe vera is a traditional diabetic

remedy in the Arabian Peninsula, and its therapeutic characteristics

are now gaining worldwide acceptance in the treatment of diabetes.

According to both human and animal research studies, aloe vera

lowers blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism. According to

the Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, this natural

hypoglycemic effect extended over a period of 24 hours. Adding

onions to your diet (along with the garlic) can also significantly

reduce your blood sugar level. Additionally, as Dr. Michael T.

Murray writes in The Healing Power of Herbs, studies show that

ginseng controls glucose in both diabetic humans and diabetic

laboratory animals.

 

It all comes down to asking if putting yourself at risk for diabetic

coma, blindness, limb amputation and death is worth eating white

bread. If you're willing to risk your quality of life and your life

itself, then go ahead and eat all the foods made with white flour

you want. However, if you want to stop poisoning yourself with

alloxan, a known toxic chemical, then make a few simple dietary

changes. Eat groceries (see related ebook on groceries) made with

whole-grain wheat flour, not processed white flour.

 

The experts speak on alloxan Animal experiments have shown that

animals which have their Beta cells destroyed by alloxan are able to

regenerate Beta cells after a few months when taking GS, a herb

grown in India. The Beta cell is the cell that produces insulin.

Diabetics needing insulin treatment (Type 1) have been able to

decrease their insulin after GS therapy.

 

A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work By James

Howenstine

MD, page 112 In the mid-1980s, however (when herbal remedies again

were popular), pata de vaca's continued use as a natural insulin

substitute was reiterated in two Brazilian studies. Both studies

reported in vivo hypoglycemic actions in various animal and human

models. Chilean research in 1999 reported the actions of pata de

vaca in diabetic rats. Their study determined that pata de vaca was

found to " elicit remarkable hypoglycemic effects, " and brought about

a " decrease of glycemia in alloxan diabetic rats by 39%. " In 2002,

two in vivo studies on the blood sugar-lowering effects of pata de

vaca were conducted by two separate research groups in Brazil. The

first study reported " a significant blood glucose-lowering effect in

normal and diabetic rats. " S The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs by

Leslie Taylor, page 382 When beta cells in the pancreas fail to

secrete enough insulin, the body loses its ability to metabolize

carbohydrates and to reduce glucose levels in the bloodstream.

Researchers believe that some people have weak free radical defenses

in these beta cells, and that free radical damage to DNA in beta

cells, resulting in dysfunction or cell death, helps cause maturity-

onset diabetes. It is known, for example, that many chemicals agents

beta cells.

 

Freedom From Disease by Hari Sharma MD, page 94 ...nearly two

decades later, researchers at RNT Medical College in India induced

diabetes in rabbits with intravenous injections of alloxan. When fed

garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as

it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide.

Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the insulin effect by

either increasing the pancreatic secretion of insulin or by

releasing bound insulin.

 

Garlic for Health by Benjamin Lau MD PhD, page 22 Commercial yeasted

breads, even the whole-grain varieties, often have other problems.

They typically contain flour bleach, which forms alloxan, a compound

known to cause diabetes in animals by destroying the beta cells of

the pancreas (Clinical Nutrition Newsletter, Dec. 1982). S Healing

With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 452 Insulin dependent

diabetes mellitus is generally recognized to be due to an insulin

deficiency.1 Although the exact cause is unknown, current theory

suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to injury coupled

with some defect in tissue regeneration capacity. Causes of injury

are most likely hydroxyl and other free radicals, viral infection,

and autoimmune reactions. alloxan, the uric acid derivative used to

induce experimental diabetes in animals, is a potent beta-cell

toxin, causing destruction via hydroxyl radical formation.

 

Textbook of Natural Medicine Volumes 1-2 by Joseph E Pizzorno and

Michael T

Murray, page 1197 In this study, mice received intraperitoneally

melatonin in doses ranging from 100 to 450 mg/kg. Results showed

that such treatment proved plasma glucose increase due to alloxan-

induced pancreatic toxicity.

 

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 88

Bleached white flour. Not only have the bran and germ been stripped

away, but bleached flour also contains a substance from the flour

bleach (alloxan) which causes diabetes in animals. Unbleached white

flour should also be avoided since it is stripped of essential

nutrients.

 

The Enzyme Cure by Lita Lee with Lisa Turner & Burton Goldberg, page

123 When fed garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped

almost as much as it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug

tolbutamide.

 

Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the insulin effect by

either increasing the pancreatic secretion of insulin or by

releasing bound

insulin.

Garlic for Health by Benjamin Lau MD PhD, page 22 Aloe vera also

exhibits a hypoglycemic effect in both normal and alloxan-induced

diabetic mice. A small human study shows benefit in diabetics. Five

patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes ingested half a

teaspoonful of aloe 4 times daily for 14 weeks. Fasting blood sugar

in every patient fell from a mean of 273 to 151 mg/dl with no change

in body weight. The authors concluded that aloe lowers blood glucose

levels by an unknown mechanismS.

 

Textbook of Natural Medicine Volumes 1-2 by Joseph E Pizzorno and

Michael T

Murray, page 587 Results of this study showed that rats given

vitamin E before being administered either streptozotocin or alloxan

provided protection against the diabetogenic effects of each. It was

also observed that rats with a depleted antioxidant state due to a

vitamin E and selenium-deficient diet showed increased diabetogenic

susceptibility to normally nondiabetogenic doses of streptozotocin.

 

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page

312 Noting that the dried sap of the aloe plant to be a traditional

diabetic remedy in the Arabian peninusla, this study examined its

ability to reduce blood glucose levels in 5 non-insulin-dependent

diabetics and in Swiss albino mice made diabetic with alloxan.

Results showed that the intake of 1/2 teaspoon of aloes daily for 4-

14 weeks signficantly reduced the fasting serum glucose level fell

in all patients. Fasting plasma glucose was significantly reduced in

diabetic mice by glibenclamide and aloes after 3 days.

 

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page

369 This study examined the effects of exudate of Aloe barbadensis

leaves (oral administration of 500 mg/kg) and its bitter principle

(ip administration of 5 mg/kg) on plasma glucose levels of alloxan-

diabetic mice. Results showed that the hypoglycemic effect of a

single oral dose of aloes on serum glucose level was insignificant

in while that of the bitter principle was highly significant and

extended over a period of 24 hours.

 

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page

369 Ginseng exerts numerous pharmacological effects in humans and

laboratory animals, including S improved glucose control in humans

and diabetic (alloxan-induced) rats; S.

 

The Healing Power of Herbs by Michael T Murray ND, page 269

 

White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan

 

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