Fructose

Mankind has for over 99.99 % of its history existed on fruits and seed products. Roaming from
bush to bush, eating new items as the seasons change. Being too slow to catch lunch, not having
fire to cook with, or even containers to store foods in. People lived on plants. It is possible to eat
too many fruits but is very difficult and very rare. The pulp and fruit fiber make eating too much
fruit almost impossible. Do not fear eating fruit and making foods from fruit. I give you some of
my best recipes for making snacks with fruit.
Fruits are our natural source of sugars. These are sweet and tasty and it is only marketing and
addictive behavior that makes sugar needed over fruits. I often ask my patient if you were lost
in the desert for three days and came out hungry, if I gave you some apples would you say No
Thanks I will wait for a candy bar? Of course not. The only need for the candy bar over the apple
is addictive behavior. Next tip:
Whenever or wherever possible
Use fruit for your sugars
Put berries into a blender and make syrup for your pancakes. You will find it wonderful and much
healthier. Fruits show so little problems even if taken in large doses. Make deserts with whole
fruits and add no sugar. Fruits are part of you five a day way to health.
Then with the advent of juicing; now when the pulp and fiber are reduced, the fructose is very
water soluble and thus is concentrated into the juice. Now as we can see later in the articles
fructose excess can occur. This is still a small problem with natural juices but there are warnings.
So our next tip is:
Use 100% fruit juice (no sugar added) and dilute with good water one part juice
to two parts water or 50/50 juice and water maximum. Water is needed and
how little juice can you add to make it more palatable.
Most of the weight loss problem in America and elsewhere comes from the excess calories from
drinks. People have lost both the taste for water and the ability to know when their bodies are
dehydrated. As they become addicted to the sugar flavor and the glycemic rush of sugar they want
flavored water not boring water. We need to get back to water and if we need some flavor use a
little bit of juice.
Next the sweet tooth comes from our ancestral need to find fruit. Fruit is what we need for health.
The taste for sweet is on the tip of the tongue and we need fruit for the alkaline ash healthy part.
This sweet taste can be overdone and create a desire for sugars instead of fruits.
The human race developed on fruits and vegetables then with the advent of weapons and fire
meats were added to the menu. Warriors groomed for the hunt must be strong. Many thought
meat would make them strong. In the Bible book of Daniel there was a challenge between the
meat eaters of Nebekenezer the Babylonian king and Daniel’s men who ate pulse. Pulse comes
from sprouted seeds made into grain. And Daniel’s men were stronger and more efficient in the
hunt.
The advent of the white sugar products made a major down turn in the immune system and it
caused the Black Death plague. Anyone who eats refined white sugar for the first time will find
their resistance lowered. Today’s sugar holidays of Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s day, Easter
all bring with them lowered immune systems. This is mostly due to the combination effects of the
dextrose on white blood cells, excess amounts of sugar, and the unnatural removal of the mineral
and vitamin by products in the refining process.
Today our children are conditioned like Pavlov’s dog to crave sweets. We associate sugar with love.
Our lovers are called sweet or candy names. Our Holidays are associated with the gift of candy.
When a child is good we give him candy, when he is bad we take it away. The mental need for
sugar and the psychological dependence on candy runs very deep into our society. Parents make
desert a part of every meal. If you are good you get desert, if you are bad you get it anyway. Big
Sugar does everything it can to perpetuate this dependence. The social and mental association
of sugar to love and happiness coupled with quick rise in blood sugar makes this an addictive
dependency that must be dealt with.
To get rid our addiction and dependency we need to increase awareness. Refined Sugar and
Refined Sugar Candy is not love it is poison. It is not love to give someone something that makes
the sick.
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