Blood sugar and blood fat (WAS: Juicing Fruit -- & --- cold weather and Rawfoods II)

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Paul Ladendorf Paul Ladendorf [paulldndrf] Friday,

July 08, 2005 8:44 AM

Re: [Raw Food] Juicing Fruit -- & --- cold weather and Rawfoods II

 

Bill,

 

Fruit juice does not contain REFINED (or processed) sugar. It would be

considered simple sugar (no fiber) though and has many of the same negative

effects of refined sugar. My understanding is that the difference between

the two is that simple sugars (such as honey) can still contain nutrients

where refined sugar is just carbohydrate. Probably not that big of a

difference in terms of its effects on the body but worth noting.

 

Paul

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The term " simple sugar " has been redefined in recent times, so let's ignore

the term and use the more stable technical terminology of chemistry. The

sugars in fruits are glucose and fructose, assuming the fruits are ripe.

These are monosaccharides, single-molecule sugars. Our body can directly

absorb glucose into the blood as fuel, and fructose nearly so.

 

In contrast, refined sugar is sucrose, a disaccharide, or sugar molecule

consisting of two smaller sugar molecules -- in fact, one glucose and one

fructose. So the digestive effort, or biochemistry, required to render

refined sugar useful is greater than that required to process fruit sugars.

 

But this explanation having been given, the primary issue here is not really

one of sugar at all. Any form of sugar by itself is not a food for our

species, nor for any large animal species of which I am aware.

 

Rather, the real issues involve fiber and fat.

 

FIBER

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When we juice, we remove the fiber and many other nutrients. In other words,

we get a concentrated dose of a fractional food and a zero dose of whole

food. When we eat sugar as a constituent in WHOLE fruits, we are fine,

because the fiber (e.g., guar, pectin) in the fruit moderates the rate of

sugar absorption, which is the transport of sugar from the small intestine

into the blood stream. Whole fruits are THE primary source of sugar our

species is designed to eat and process; such a source, in and of itself, is

simply not a source of problems except in rather rare circumstances.

 

FAT

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When we eat sugar (and/or starch, if you still eat starch) with or after

(even hours after) we eat fat (avocado, nuts, seeds, oils, coconut meat,

etc.), we cause our body's blood fat to elevate for an extended period of

time. When this occurs, sugar uptake is impaired. Sugar uptake (not

absorption, two different terms), refers to movement, in the " company " of

insulin, of sugar FROM the blood stream and INTO individual cells, where the

sugar is actually metabolized -- the fuel is converted into thermomechanical

energy.

 

Our body is not designed to consume nor process such a food combination.

Instead, our body perceives elevated blood sugar, which can rapidly become

fatal if the body does not respond. So the body creates a " fight or flight "

response. The adrenals fire, the pancreas goes into overdrive producing

insulin, and eventually the blood sugar is " brought down to normal. " But

there is nothing at all normal about this sequence of physiological events.

 

When we continue to consume even modest quantities of fats on a daily basis,

year after year, we create a chronic cycle of elevated blood sugar followed

by massive physiological response. Eventually, over time, the adrenals

and/or the pancreas become exhausted. At this point, we may be diagnosed

with " chronic fatigue, " " hyper/hypoglycemia " (now renamed " insulin

resistance " ), and in the " care " of the right " provider, " we might even

manage to pick up a diagnosis of " Candida. " The solution, of course, is to

limit fat consumption, to less than 10% of total calories, hopefully even

less.

 

Excess Candida is nothing more than the natural response of an opportunistic

organism to a large jump in its natural food supply, which is sugar. But the

Candida do not create their own food supply, we do, and we would surely

starve ourselves before we can ever starve out the Candida, they are simply

too nimble (biologically speaking) and too numerous, and they reproduce too

quickly. Again, if we limit fat consumption, the body reasserts its own

natural processes for sugar management, the excess sugar disappears from the

blood, and the Candida move on to another more lucrative location.

 

In almost all circumstances, all of these " blood sugar problems " are quite

directly caused by excessive consumption of fats. ANY consumption of animal

proteins, and excessive consumption of plant proteins, exacerbates the

situation, and the body's blood sugar levels and insulin production jump and

plunge, until the aforementioned exhaustion occurs.

 

Hope this is constructive for some!

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

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