Part II: 124 Ways Sugar Ruins Your Health

By Nancy Appleton, PhDWell here it is. The second half of the list. Once again, think about what you feed your body. Does it make you look good, feel good or function well? The majority of what ails us can be linked to what we put in our mouths.

Oh p.s. the sources of each finding are listed at the bottom again. Read on...

66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention.
67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.
68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.
70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle.
71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.
72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.
75. Sugar can cause depression.
76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.
77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout.
79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.
80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.
81 High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.
82. Sugar can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins, albumin, and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness.
85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli. 88. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.
90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer.
92. Sugar feeds cancer.
93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents.
95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.
96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon. This can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.
98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult.
99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.
100. Sugar is an addictive substance.
101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS.
103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce. 104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch. 106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function.
110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
111. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.
112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.
113. Sugar increases the risk of polio.
114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
116. In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives.
117. Sugar may induce cell death.
118. Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in living organisms.
119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior.
120. Sugar can cause gastric cancer.
121. Sugar dehydrates newborns.
122. Sugar can cause gum disease.
123. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.
124. Sugar can cause low birth-weight babies.


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LIVER CLEANSE

In anticipation of Spring arriving soon, let's do some Spring cleaning. But this year, we're taking care of the body first. Our surroundings can wait.The feedback from this routine is phenomenal.

It is recommended that parasites should be killed first (by a parasite cleanse or by a frequency generator), as well as a kidney cleanse, and any dental work (removal of mercury fillings).

Ingredients
Epsom salts……….…………… 4 Tablespoons
Virgin Olive Oil……………….... ½ cup (light olive oil is easier to get down)
Fresh Lemons or Limes……… 1 or 2, large enough to squeeze ½ to ¾ cup of juice
(2) Pint jar with lid……….….… One for Epsom drink & one to shake the Lemon mixture in
Large plastic straw (optional)…. To help drink potion

Choose a day when you can rest the next day. Take no medicines, vitamins or pills that you can do without; they could prevent a successful cleanse. The day before the liver cleanse, stop any parasite cleanse or kidney cleanse program. Eat a no-fat breakfast and lunch such as cooked cereal with fruit, fruit juice, bread and preserves or honey (no butter or milk), baked potato or other vegetables with salt only. This allows the bile to build up and develop pressure in the liver. The higher the pressure the more stones pushed out.

2:00 PM.
Do not eat or drink after 2 o’clock. If you break this rule you could feel quite ill later. Mix 4 Tablespoons of Epsom salts in 3 cups of water and pour this into a jar. This makes 4 servings, ¾ cup each. Set the jar in the refrigerator to get ice cold (this is for convenience and taste only).

6:00 PM.
Drink your first serving (¾ cup) of ice cold Epsom salts. You may add 1/8 teaspoon of vitamin C powder to improve the taste. You may drink a few mouthfuls of water to remove taste.

8:00 PM.
Drink your second serving (¾ cup) of Epsom salts. You haven’t eaten since 2:00 but you probably won’t feel hungry. Get all your bedtime chores done. The timing is critical for success; do not be more than 10 minutes early or late for the next step.
At 10:00 you will be laying down immediately
Be prepared to go to sleep
Be ready for bed ahead of time
Don’t clean up the kitchen
Have all your chores done

9:45 PM.
Pour ½ cup olive oil into the pint jar. Squeeze the lemons (or limes) into the measuring cup and sieve to remove pulp. You should have at least ½ - ¾ cup of juice. Add this to the olive oil. Close the jar tightly and shake hard for 30 seconds.
Before drinking this mixture (at 10:00) visit the bathroom.

10:00 PM.
This is the most important step. Drink the mixture from the pint jar. Drinking through a large straw may help it go down easier. You may use cinnamon or brown sugar to chase it down between sips. Be sure to drink mixture (standing up) within 5 minutes (15 min. for very elderly). Lie down immediately. You may fail to get stones out if you don’t. The sooner you lie down the more stones you will get out. Be ready for bed ahead of time. As soon as the drink is down, lie down flat on your back with your head up high on the pillow. Try to concentrate on what is happening in the liver and gallbladder. Try to keep perfectly still for at least 20 minutes. You may feel stones traveling like marbles along the bile ducts. There should be no pain because the bile duct valves are open (thanks to Epsom salts!). Go to Sleep. Do not get up until morning. You may fail to get stones out if you get up.

Next Morning – no earlier than 6:00 AM.
Upon awakening take your third dose (¾ cup) of Epsom salts.

8:00 AM.
Take your fourth dose of Epsom salts (the last). You may go back to bed.

Two hours later.
You may eat now. Start with fruit juice. Half an hour later eat fruit. One hour later you may eat regular food but keep it light. By supper you should feel recovered. How well did you do? Expect diarrhea in the morning. Use a flashlight to look for gallstones in the toilet after each bowel movement. Genuine gallstones are green colored, which is proof that they are not food residue. Only bile from the liver is pea green. Gallstones can be black, red, white, green or tan colored. The green ones get their color from being coated with bile. Many have embedded unidentified objects, which could be fluke remains.

The bowel movement sinks but gallstones float because of the cholesterol inside. Count them all roughly, whether tan or green. You will need to total 2000 stones before the liver is clean enough to rid you of allergies or bursitis or upper back pains permanently. The first cleanse may rid you of them for a few days, but as the stones from the rear travel forward, they give you the same symptoms again. You may REPEAT CLEANSES at 2 week intervals. NEVER CLEANSE while you are ILL. I think a more realistic approach would be twice a year or every 6 months.

Sometimes the bile ducts are full of cholesterol crystals that did not form into round stones. They appear as “chaff” floating on top of the toilet bowl water. It may be tan colored, harboring millions of tiny white crystals. Cleansing this chaff is just as important as purging stones. Cleansing the liver of gallstones dramatically improves digestion, which is the basis of total health. You can expect your allergies to disappear, more with each cleanse you do.

This cleanse may also help eliminate shoulder, upper arm and upper back pain. Your energy level and sense of well being will also increase. It is the job of the liver to make bile, 1 to 1½ quarts a day! The liver is full of tubes (biliary tubing) that deliver the bile to one large tube (the common bile duct). The gallbladder is attached to the common bile duct and acts as a storage reservoir. Eating fat or protein triggers the gallbladder to squeeze itself empty after about twenty minutes, and the stored bile finishes its trip down the common bile duct to the intestine. For many people, including children, the biliary tubing is choked with gallstones. At the very center of each stone is found a clump of bacteria, according to scientists, suggesting a dead bit of parasite might have started the stone forming. As the stones grow and become more numerous the back pressure on the liver causes it to make less bile. When the ducts are clogged, much less cholesterol leaves the body, and cholesterol levels may rise. Gallstones, being porous, can pick up all the bacteria, cysts, viruses and parasites that are passing through the liver. In this way “nests” of infection are formed, forever supplying the body with fresh bacteria. Stomach infections such as ulcers or intestinal bloating cannot be permanently cured without removing these gallstones from the liver. Gallstones are produced in the liver, not the gallbladder. By the time you have acute pain attacks, some stones are in the gallbladder and are big enough and sufficiently calcified to see on X-ray, and have caused inflammation. When the gallbladder is removed the acute attacks are gone, but the bursitis and other pains and digestive problems remain. People who have had their gallbladder surgically removed still get plenty of green, bile-coated gallstones.

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have now removed your gallstones without surgery and have saved thousands of $$$$$.