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"The technique of fermenting sugar, releasing energy that can be used for living and growing, and leaving behind a less-energy rich acid, has proved popular among bacteria to this day; the lactic acid that turns milk sour is the residue of bacteria that gorged on the milk sugat called lactose; so is the alcohol that bacteria leave after eating the fructose in grapes. However, the sugars available from inorganic carbon molecules are a use-it-and-lose-it resource, one that declines precipitously wherever it is used for food." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"This damages your tissue's cellular structure, leading to the breakdown of collagen. "And collagen," Dr. Lam explains, "is the matrix that forms the foundation of the epidermis of the skin. When you have collagen breakdown, that's when wrinkles and fine lines start to appear." But our bodies are quite miraculous: Collagen can be rebuilt. "The skin goes through a regenerative process every 28 days. It doesn't matter at what age you start," says Dr." - 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.)

"In 1993, the average person was eating 145 pounds of sugar per year. Refined sugar is devoid of nutrients. Consequently, when we eat foods that contain refined sugar, our bodies have to use their own store of nutrients to properly digest the food. The end result is that our bodies become depleted of essential nutrients. The overuse of refined sugar will ultimately lead to multiple nutritional imbalances in the body, particularly B Vitamin deficiencies. The average American eats 20 teaspoons of refined sugars per day, which equals 16% of their daily caloric intake." - David Brownstein, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders (Get the book.)

"The best way to consume cocoa is to add plain cocoa powder—preferably non-Dutched cocoa; Dutched cocoa is treated with an alkali during processing—into chili or other Southwestern recipes, thus avoiding the sugar in chocolate bars. If you eat chocolate, make sure it's dark or extra dark chocolate with 60 to 80 percent cocoa solids and that it has low sugar content.) Small red beans, kidney beans, and black beans are also packed with antioxidants. Antioxidants can also be found in supplement and vitamin form." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"These bacteria broke down sugar molecules into smaller molecules such as carbon dioxide and water, taking for their own use the energy that had bound these molecules together. This process was limited by the availability of these sugars and of certain acids, and after a while (a billion years or so) supplies began to run low. Some bacteria escaped from this constraint by developing a new way of obtaining food: photosynthesis. Using the energy of sunlight, they converted carbon dioxide, water, and minerals into energy-rich organic compounds." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The spiraling force at the very core of our beings is the double helix of our DNA, which looks like a spiral staircase with pairs of nucleotides making steps, which are attached to two strands of sugar phosphate backbone that are the stair railings. The ladder or rope or staircase is an image throughout the shamanic world that indicates the place from which knowledge springs. I remember the first time I journeyed to the underworld; I was merely instructed to go without any indication of how to get there." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The increased use of non-water drinks has contributed to the increased sugar intake. Americans drink twice as much soda in 1997 as they did in 1973, as well as 43% more than in 1985.4 Soda vending machines are now commonplace in schools. A 12-ounce can of non-diet soda contains approximately 10 teaspoons of refined sugar. Fruit juices are not much better than sodas. Water should be the beverage of choice (see section below). Many illnesses have been associated with increased use of refined sugar (see Table 15). Table 15: Illnesses Associated With Increased sugar Consumption 1. ADHD 2." - David Brownstein, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders (Get the book.)

"Agricultural officials in Cuba ordered an early start to the sugar harvest to avoid potentially damaging storms. International relief agencies stockpiled relief supplies. The bill for the 1997-1998 El Nino is not yet in, but the cost will vastly exceed the $13 billion of its 1983 predecessor, not necessarily because the droughts were more severe, the rains and storms more savage, or the fires so widespread, but simply because there are now so many more people in the world, many of them crowded into cities and urban slums." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Even allowing for the intensive fanning of water-hungry sugar cane today, the Moche usage figure would still be high. The effect of a 25 or 30 percent reduction in the water supply would be catastrophic, especially for farmers near the coast, well downstream from the mountains. How did these dramatic rainfall shifts and El Nino events affect Moche civilization? The lords of Sipan ruled over a portion of the Lambayeque Valley around A.D. 400, soon after political power had shifted northward. Moche society apparently prospered until the mid-sixth century's severe drought cycle." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The process itself uses several fermentation steps that follow almost the same sequence as the human digestive tract: corn comes in from the farmer and is converted first to complex starches and then to simpler sugars such as dextrose; dextrose can be coaxed into milk sugar polymers or polylactides and then into various chemically controlled and fermented patented resins, films, and filaments. When the product's useful life has come to an end, it can be industrially composted and used to enrich the soil, instead of sending toxic molecules into underground aquifers." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Remember, if you choose to remove sugar from your diet, it will take about two to three days before you feel better. By the same token, if you are a caffeine addict and choose to cut back (or eliminate) caffeine from your diet you may experience headaches for a few days. One option is to step down from regular coffee to green tea. Virtually all of these recommended supplements can be found at your local health food store. They typically are located in the same place where you find your herbal cleansing formulas, so you can take care of all your detoxification product needs at once." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The earth was sweet as sugar; the ocean as delicious as wine. And then again, before this happy age, there had been a period happier still—precisely twice as happy—when men and women had been eight miles tall, possessing each two hundred and fifty-six ribs. When those superlative people died, they passed directly to the world of the gods, without ever having heard of religion, for their natural virtue was as perfect as their beauty. The Jains conceive of time as an endless round. Time is pictured as a wheel with twelve spokes, or ages, classified in two sets of six." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Milk sugar, galactose, grape sugar, dextrose and fruit sugar, levulose—all have the empirical formula CKHi206, but there is a vital difference between the character of the dextrose and levulose in relationship to polarized light. Galactose and dextrose are dextro-rotated; that is they twist the plane of polarized light to the right. Levulose is levo-rotatory: it twists the plane of polarized light to the left. The sugar not assimilated is the dextrose. The levulose is consumed within the tissues and should be included in the diabetic's diet to prevent carbohydrate starvation." - R. B. Amber, Color Therapy: Healing With Color (Get the book.) "Metabolism and nutrition suffer. Milk sugar, galactose, grape sugar, dextrose and fruit sugar, levulose—all have the empirical formula CKHi206, but there is a vital difference between the character of the dextrose and levulose in relationship to polarized light. Galactose and dextrose are dextro-rotated; that is they twist the plane of polarized light to the right. Levulose is levo-rotatory: it twists the plane of polarized light to the left. The sugar not assimilated is the dextrose." - R. B. Amber, Color Therapy: Healing With Color (Get the book.)

"The yeast itself is capable, through biochemical intermediaries, of making people a little 'flaky' right from the very beginning, but it also makes you more likely to have food intolerances, especially people with sugar imbalances. Very often, people with all three of the above-mentioned conditions are going to a psychiatrist who is not trained to diagnose diet-related disorders. So even though you have psychiatric symptoms, you have a good chance of being incorrectly diagnosed." There are two basic definitions of food allergies today." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "For instance, when an infant is crying or upset, the mother gives him some breast milk, and the sugar and fat in the milk probably trigger the endorphin system so that the baby then can go to sleep. That same system can be activated under some circumstances by children and adults in order to make themselves feel good. As a consequence, people find themselves having to use a particular food or a group of foods to make themselves feel better. That is part of the basis of food addiction. "Here's a hypothetical 35-year-old woman." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "This child can't tolerate sugar, he is hyperkinetic' (Hyperkinesis, or hyperactivity, is one of the symptoms of mercury poisoning.) I said, 'This has to be a case of mercury poisoning. This child was perfectly well until he was seven. But I don't see any fillings.' She said, 'Doctor, there is a filling there.' So I got a dental mirror from a colleague of mine and looked. Sure enough, there was a filling the size of a pinhead. I couldn't believe it. I had the filling removed, and within three months the child was substantially improved." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Going organic will also help you to limit your consumption of processed and refined foods—most of which are packed with excess sodium, unhealthy fats, and sugar. You will also reap the benefits of the natural chemicals that plants have originally made for their own protection. In their own survival efforts, plants use phytonutrients to protect themselves from disease and to boost their own immunity. That's one reason researchers believe organic fruits and vegetables are healthier—they are raised without pesticides, forcing them to produce more of their own protective chemicals." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"It's been said that with holographic wave-interference patterns, all of the US Library of Congress, which contains virtually every book ever published in English, would fit onto a large sugar cube.,Q The holographic model would also account for the instant recall of memory, often as a three-dimensional image. Pribram's theories about the distributed role of memory and the wave-front language of the brain met with a great deal of disbelief, especially in the 1960s, when they were first published." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Once, we got this sugar cereal. Normally, a kid is like, "Sugar!" and they're happy. I remember sitting over this bowl of smushberry or something, and just wanting to throw up. I was supposed to carry on with this daily routine after what had just happened, and I'm sitting over this food and part of my feeling was wanting to throw up, part of it was, "What's the use of eating?" It was hopeless. "What's the point of living? What's the point of me going on?" After what just happened, I had no desire to eat and I was so sick, and it was like, "eek!" while I was eating; it was like sandpaper." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"A diet heavy in sugar and hydrogenated fats, the cornerstones of the processed foods that have infiltrated our lives, can encumber phase I detoxification and add to this vicious cycle. The very toxins the liver is supposed to process are also contributing to a toxic buildup that inhibits the entire detoxification process. The liver cells themselves, which are designed to be champions of the detox process for the benefit of the entire body, are in effect damaged. As fewer detoxification enzymes get produced, the more difficult it is for your liver to operate at that level 10 capacity." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Surprising sources of toxins include - pharmaceutical drugs and rocket fuel in drinking water - formaldehyde in household goods and furniture - untold additives in food - plastics and resins in commonly used bottles, cans, and storage containers that leach a noxious chemical - toys made with lead paint Too much sugar, especially from processed foods, can do as much damage to the liver as excess alcohol. About one in ten children today show signs of a fatty liver, which is also attributed to rising levels of obesity. This condition is reversible through diet and lifestyle changes." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The scene looked exactly as Wagner had described Nicoya a half century ago: crude wood buildings, a raised chicken coop, a barn the size of a single-car garage, a mule-driven sugar cane press, and a small house of vertical planks. The tin roof provided the only hint that the 20th century had come and gone. An old man napped languidly in a hammock on the porch. Inside, we could hear talking and laughing. "Buenas tardes," Jorge called out. The talking stopped abruptly. An old portly woman wearing a housedress and an apron pulled aside the sheet covering the front door and looked out at us. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "When they needed salt or sugar, Panchita would walk the 18 miles to town and back to get it. "Life was hard those days, Papi." She always called me Papi. "You can no longer cook me with a little bit of water," she said, referring to her age and that old tough meat takes longer to cook. As she spoke, she waved a finger at me. Spittle flew from her mouth, and her dangling legs kicked reflexively. At one point during our conversation, her normally festive demeanor turned serious. She put her hand on my arm; she had an endearing habit of gently, instinctually touching people to make a point." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "He not only ate it every day, he also made his own, crushing sugar cane and boiling it down in his backyard. "If you eat so much candy," I asked him, "how come you have such nice teeth?" "They're false," he laughed, tapping his white dentures. Sitting on the floor was part of the daily routine for 94-year-old Koutoku Kinjo. It helped keep him flexible so that he could still practice bojutsu (a martial art using a stick) and ride his motorcycle to his garden every day. Fumi Chinen has never used a dirty word—not once?in all her 99 years. We met her at her clothing stall in the Naha market." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "We seem to like a lot of the things that are bad for us: salt, sugar, fat. There is something about humans that is inherently self-destructive, at least when it comes to eating. The best diet is basically one of moderation. You hear about all these people that live on legumes and plant foods and that's probably okay, but I don't think it's necessary. One certainly can metabolize a certain amount of meat, but again it's a question of are you eating European portions or American portions? Are you eating meat a couple of times a week, or are you eating it every day for two meals a day?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"My daughter had one asthma attack that did not repeat after eliminating sugar and dairy. I am energetic and focused, and I exercise four to six times a week. The homework exposed my weak areas and increased my determination to strengthen them. I now think before doing and always unclutter. RALPH, A SENIOR I assumed I was healthy most of my life. A couple of years ago I began to feel ill and was diagnosed with a cardiac condition. Triple bypass was suggested. I refused the surgery. Medications and wheelchair dependency added to my discomfort. I traveled to California seeking options." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Also, because this diet includes minimum animal products and sodium and little or no sugar or caffeine, your body should better retain its nutritional and supplemental calcium. Magnesium is another element that helps the body to eliminate excess estrogen. For women, magnesium levels tend to fall at certain times during the menstrual cycle. These shifts in magnesium levels can upset an optimal calcium-magnesium ratio." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

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