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Fig. 47. Reductionism – looking at ever smaller parts and pieces – cannot
answer the ultimate questions about how to achieve best nutrition and
health. The answers are holistic because life is holistic.
Whole food has many biological advantages over processed foods,
but one obvious advantage is the fact that whole foods are digested much
more slowly than processed foods. This allows time to properly assimilate
nutrients, using the food’s own inherent enzymes. It would be very difficult
to consume five or six raw oranges or apples in under a minute, but the same
amount of sugar stripped from them, approximately 5 teaspoons, can be
consumed in a couple of swallows of a processed drink. Sugar in its
natural form is released slowly into the body, whereas processed sugar is
absorbed into the blood in a matter of minutes.
The body becomes overloaded, does not
have time to utilize or adequately
produce its digestive enzymes, and
the sugar must be metabolized by
the liver from whence it is dispensed
to fat stores throughout the
body.*
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