Sugar is a drug that poisons your body and robs health. It weakens your immune system and promotes the growth of yeast organisms. To get a perspective of just how bad sugar is, consider this: if you smoke and eat sugar, it would probably be a healthier choice for you to give up the sugar. In most individuals sugar is worse for your health than smoking.

A 12-ounce can of non-diet pop has at least 8 teaspoons of sugar .The average American consumes 54.5 gallons of pop a year and a total of about 170 pounds of sugar per year, equaling a half-pound of sugar consumed every day. Cereals from the grocery store generally have more sugar than wheat or oats. Sugar can be listed as: sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, etc. They are all sugar and when added up will most likely be the main ingredient: sugar. They are purposely separated so that you do not realize that sugar is the primary ingredient. To combat this I instruct my patients to READ LABELS! The guideline to follow is that if one of these items is listed as number 4 or less, you may eat it with caution and in moderation.

Good alternative sweeteners, if used sparingly are: raw maple syrup, raw honey, brown rice syrup, succanat, date sugar, molasses, or fructose. Stevia is an herbal sweetener without any calories that improves sugar metabolism, and is by far the best sweetening choice. We have plenty of information on Stevia.

Most of the rice sold in this country has been refined and processed just like sugar and wheat to create greater eye appeal. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, during processing nearly all the nutritional value is removed. All that remains is a starchy carbohydrate pasty white substance. Therefore avoid polished, converted, instant and white rice and rice-products. Choose brown or bismatti rice, preferably organic

2) Aspartame: a.k.a. NutraSweet, or Equal.

Aspartame is the technical name for NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It accounts for over 75 to 85 percent of the adverse reactions reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more than food and other food additives combined. There are 90 different documented reactions to aspartame, some life-threatening, these' include: death, headaches, migraines, slurred speech, anxiety attacks, breathing difficulties, memory loss, heart palpitations, vision problems, loss of taste and depression, to name a few.

Aspartame is a neurotoxin as it contains ten times the normal allowable level of methanol, a deadly poison. The Environmental Protection Agency recommends a daily consumption of less than eight milligrams of methanol, while a typical diet soda contains 55 milligrams. The possible complications of methanol toxicity include: blindness, brain swelling, cardiac damage, numbness, pancreatitis, shooting pains, and even death. During digestion methanol is broken down into formaldehyde that is known to cause to cancer .

Phenylalanine, the major component in Nutrasweet, can cause the levels of the brain neurotransmitter, serotonin, to decrease, which may led to depression. Phenylalanine can cross the placenta into a fetus and may cause growth disruption of the fetal brain. Many Americans lack the needed enzyme to properly metabolize phenylalanine leading to toxic levels of phenylalanine in the blood.

Aspartic acid or aspartate, an amino acid, is approximately 40 % of the chemical make up of aspartame. In Nutrasweet, it can significantly raise blood levels of aspartate and glutamate shortly after being consumed. These substances lead to "over excitation". .Hence they are (continued on page 4)

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