Sugar - The Real Culprit
Can sugar be the culprit in causing all those diseases we have been blaming on smoking and cholesterol? That’s what they're saying.
Of course, the sugar industry keeps saying, "There just isn’t enough evidence. More studies are needed. This is nothing more than an attempt to put off confronting the problem head-on. They know that they are wrong and poisoning the world. They know it in their brain and their liver too, but greed makes it easy to keep overlooking the obvious.
There is some confusion here that must be cleared up or the sugar mongers will win by default. "It’s not the sugar," they say, "that causes diabetes. Sugar goes up because of diabetes." This is an attempt to totally reverse the cause and the problem. Diabetes is, by definition, an excess of sugar in the blood. And where does that sugar come from? It's not very hard to answer that one, since the food industry puts sugar in almost every prepared food you buy at the market. And sugar by any other name is still sugar.
Besides, recent studies make it clear, if it wasn’t clear to you already, that excessive sugar in the diet leads to diabetes. And then this excess of sugar, over a period of time, causes heart disease, peripheral arterial disease, kidney disease, and stroke.
One recent study from John Hopkins University examined 13 studies and concluded that a high blood sugar is directly associated with an increased risk of heart disease in people with diabetes. Don’t blame your heart disease on a word, "diabetes," blame it on the real culprit, sugar.
All these recent studies looked at the percentage of a substance glycosylated hemoglobin (HbAlc) in the blood. Plain old blood sugar levels can vary dramatically, but HbAlc is a more consistent marker of the state of your blood sugar. When HbAlc increases by one percentage point, the risk of heart disease or stroke rises by nearly 20 percent. Likewise when HbAlc percentage drops, heart disease risk drops as well.
UK researchers found essentially the same relationship: For every HbAlc percentage point that rose above 5 percent, risk of problem associated with heart disease rose more than 20 percent.
So the experts need to stop blaming plugged coronary arteries on "diabetes," as though it was something the patient "caught," like pneumonia. The fact is, the person "caught" it through years of sugar abuse.
Have your doctor test your HbAlc levels on your next visit. And in the meantime, work on kicking the sugar habit.
Reference:
Of course, the sugar industry keeps saying, "There just isn’t enough evidence. More studies are needed. This is nothing more than an attempt to put off confronting the problem head-on. They know that they are wrong and poisoning the world. They know it in their brain and their liver too, but greed makes it easy to keep overlooking the obvious.
There is some confusion here that must be cleared up or the sugar mongers will win by default. "It’s not the sugar," they say, "that causes diabetes. Sugar goes up because of diabetes." This is an attempt to totally reverse the cause and the problem. Diabetes is, by definition, an excess of sugar in the blood. And where does that sugar come from? It's not very hard to answer that one, since the food industry puts sugar in almost every prepared food you buy at the market. And sugar by any other name is still sugar.
Besides, recent studies make it clear, if it wasn’t clear to you already, that excessive sugar in the diet leads to diabetes. And then this excess of sugar, over a period of time, causes heart disease, peripheral arterial disease, kidney disease, and stroke.
One recent study from John Hopkins University examined 13 studies and concluded that a high blood sugar is directly associated with an increased risk of heart disease in people with diabetes. Don’t blame your heart disease on a word, "diabetes," blame it on the real culprit, sugar.
All these recent studies looked at the percentage of a substance glycosylated hemoglobin (HbAlc) in the blood. Plain old blood sugar levels can vary dramatically, but HbAlc is a more consistent marker of the state of your blood sugar. When HbAlc increases by one percentage point, the risk of heart disease or stroke rises by nearly 20 percent. Likewise when HbAlc percentage drops, heart disease risk drops as well.
UK researchers found essentially the same relationship: For every HbAlc percentage point that rose above 5 percent, risk of problem associated with heart disease rose more than 20 percent.
So the experts need to stop blaming plugged coronary arteries on "diabetes," as though it was something the patient "caught," like pneumonia. The fact is, the person "caught" it through years of sugar abuse.
Have your doctor test your HbAlc levels on your next visit. And in the meantime, work on kicking the sugar habit.
Reference:
"Sugar Shock," Health Sciences Institute e-Alert (www.hsibaltimore.com). 9/28/04
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