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"Perhaps the best example of this is what I call big sugar, or the U.S. sugar industry. Some people also call it the sugar lobby. big sugar has been very successful at two things: First, selling lots of sugar, and second, covering up any negative information about the destructive health effects of sugar consumption. Big Sugar controls national nutritional guidelines The sugar industry has been able to influence the top decision makers at the US DA to the point that the new dietary guidelines for the Food Guide Pyramid have been modified to benefit the sugar industry." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"If you notice your kids bounce off the walls after a big sugar load, it is because the sugar produced a jolt of adrenaline. The surge of insulin in the body also turns on cellular switches that increase the inflammatory cytokines, just as happens when you have the flu. Except it doesn't go away, but persists for decades, doing its damage slowly. There is no scientific controversy here. The evidence is in. Sugar causes inflammation.The insulin-resistant fat cells you pack on when you eat too much sugar produce nasty inflammatory messengers (cytokines) like TNF (/." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"You may also experience a big sugar hangover. You may feel as if you had been drinking all night even though you didn't drink anything. Your cells will be telling you that relief is only a bite away. The leftovers will call to you big time. A turkey sandwich on white bread, stuffing, a piece of apple pie. Your brain will try to convince you that "just one more" won't hurt anything. After all, yesterday made you feel good and nothing awful happened. Remember there are no negative consequences right away. They come later after you have lost the month and feel terrible." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Some people also call it the sugar lobby. big sugar has been very successful at two things: First, selling lots of sugar, and second, covering up any negative information about the destructive health effects of sugar consumption. Big Sugar controls national nutritional guidelines The sugar industry has been able to influence the top decision makers at the US DA to the point that the new dietary guidelines for the Food Guide Pyramid have been modified to benefit the sugar industry." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"We should immediately end the subsidies (corporate welfare) to big sugar. We should stop subsidizing the growing of corn. By doing so, we will make healthy foods more attractive to consumers while reducing the consumption of foods made from corn syrup and added sugars. Create incentives for good health Another idea for enhancing the nutrition of the nation is to create incentives that reward good nutritional strategies among the public. One idea would be to have insurance rebates for people who attain and maintain certain health milestones." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.) "The sugar industry — sometimes called "Big Sugar" — continues to receive millions of dollars each year in corporate welfare from taxpayers as it produces refined white sugar. As a result, this makes sugar cheaper than it should be in the marketplace — which makes foods made with sugar artificially cheap as well. In a sense, this becomes a pivotal issue for people at lower incomes, because when they are at grocery stores looking for ways to feed themselves and their families, they are of course looking for lower cost food items." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Is "Big Sugar" the Next "Big Tobacco"? What a difference a few years can make. Back in August 2000, the satirical publication and website The Onion elicited chuckles, chortles—and even some confusion—with its seemingly far-fetched spoof class-action lawsuit against "Big Chocolate." Today, with such eerily similar cases already filed or considered against fast-food giants and companies, that satire has lost its sting, and the piece now seems prophetic." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "She then goes door to door to recruit neighbors for her class action lawsuit against "Big Sugar." For instance, Marge brings on spaced-out Disco Stu, who admits, "I've been hooked on the white stuff since the seventies." Then, in an uproarious, laugh-out-loud TV moment, Stu greedily inhales sucrose through a rolled dollar bill as if it were a line of cocaine. The spoof continues as "whistle blowers" are trotted out in court. "Well, we knew perfectly well it was addictive," testifies a professor working on a top-secret "Hoiven Maven" project. "Candy was just a sugar delivery system." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "While big sugar and Big Food are taking some positive steps to confront the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related illnesses, Dr. Sinatra and I strongly urge and encourage you to educate yourself so that you won't have to take them at their word when they say that their sugary, processed-food products are okay to consume. HDW SUGARY FDDDS CDLILD MESS WITH YOUR MIND AND E M DTI DNS Prddf Pours In: New Studies Show That You Can Becdme Dependent on Sweets Who would have dreamed having a sugar habit could be so hilarious?" - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Insiders are now struck by the similarities between what once faced Big Tobacco and what now faces big sugar. "Saying that all these heavily sweetened drinks or foods cannot harm you is the moral equivalent of the tobacco industry claiming for decades that their products had no causal relationship to heart disease or cancer," laments one knowledgeable source, who desired anonymity for fear of reprisal in the workplace. It's Not Nice to Fool Consumers: The Legal Volleys Begin Not surprisingly, while I was writing this book, experts told me about a dozen legal volleys (i.e." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Marion Nestle, Food Politics To get an idea of the power of this political / economic machine, take a look at the influence of just one player: big sugar companies. In 1991,1,700 farms raised sugarcane and 13,700 raised sugar beets in the United States, but 42 percent of the sugar subsidies went to just 1 percent of these growers. The owners of these few farms give generously to both political parties. The Fanjul family, for example, controls about one-third of Florida's sugarcane production and collects at least $60 million annually in subsidies." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "For example, in the United States, the big sugar industry strenuously denies any link between the consumption of refined sugars and diseases like diabetes or obesity. Through political influence, they managed to get the Bush administration to actually block an initiative by the World Health Organization that would have recommended that people all over the world limit their intake of refined sugars. Over the years, there have been some rather energized debates over the Food Guide Pyramid published by the USDA." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

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