Sugar Baby – Part 1

It's the middle of January and our 2010 resolutions are still fresh. The last of the sugar cookies are just crumbs left next to the half eaten gingerbread house that moved in with us last month. It's that time to re-train our minds and our tongues.

From the dark side 

We've heard enough to know that refined sugars and sugar substitutes are not good for us, but they’re so difficult to stay away from. Let’s face it; sugar is a sneaky ingredient lurking everywhere. Take a look around your kitchen and you’ll find it in breads, dried cranberries, soymilk, tonic water, bottled teas, salad dressings, crackers and just about any processed food. The people who create the recipes for these foods used to cook for Darth Vader and now he gets a cut of their profits. They know that the sugar in their foods will get us drugged up and lure us right into their dark side. Sugar is a mortal enemy of ripped abs.



It’s important to remember what we’re feeding with our sugar addictions. Viruses love sugar, yeasts (like Candida) love sugar, parasites love sugar, cancer loves sugar, fat cells love sugar.


Sugar, in its original form, is the juice from the sugar cane plant. Simple enough, and not terribly damaging when consumed moderately in its natural state. The white sugar on our tables and in our foods is stripped of the fiber, vitamins, minerals and natural enzymes that are helpful to our bodies. This refined sugar has no nutritional value and is usually found in foods that contain excessive fats, useless calories and a ton of cholesterol.


Refined sugar makes you fat. When our liver maxes out on the amount of sugar that it can store as an energy source, the rest is pumped back into our bloodstream and dumped around our body… so guys, look for it on your belly and girls on your thighs and upper arms. Type 2 diabetes is caused by too much sugar. All this stresses your body and stress causes aging.


Beware, when fructose, a natural sugar found in fruits, is refined, processed and added to foods or beverages, it has the same effects as refined sugar.


Legalized Coke
A 24-ounce Coke usually contains over 75 grams of sugar. That’s enough sugar to make your insulin levels bark like a Doberman on crack. Harvard says a single can of Coke a day will add 15 pounds of body weight a year.


According to "Healthbolt" this is what happens to your body after drinking a Coke:
The First 10 minutes:
10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down. Nice visual huh.
20 minutes:
Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes:
Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes:
Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
60 minutes:
The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
60 Minutes:
The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
60 minutes:
As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.


This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.

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Sugar = Diabetes, obesity and aging… are we having fun yet? Tune in next week for part 2 -- information on sugar substitutes.


Train Your Body. Train your Mind. Tame your Tongue.
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