More Un-Nourishing Traditions
** In an address at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Land, at Chicago, Illinois, June 26, 1956, Dr. W. Coda Martin (M.D.) said: National sugar consumption [as of 1956!] is one hundred pounds per year per person [today that is approaching 200 pounds per person per year], or an average of five hundred calories per day. These are known as empty calories. They cannot be properly metabolized in the body because the required vitamin-and-mineral catalysts were removed during refinement. This interference with the enzyme system of metabolism results in the production of toxic metabolites. Tests have shown that these metabolites from incomplete carbohydrate metabolism interfere with cellular oxidation which result in the formation of abnormal cells. This is the beginnng of tissue pathology. Cited from Natural Health, Sugar and the Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale, c1968
** Excess sugar [and/or other “insulin stimulants”] eventually affects every organ in the body. Initially it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver’s capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar [OR any refined food that provides the body with glucose amounts above the required amount] soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs. . . When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys, and these begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. The whole body is affected by their reduced ability and abnormal blood pressure is created . . . the circulatory and lymphatic systems are invaded and the quality of the red corpuscles starts to change. An overabundance of white cells occurs . . . Our bodies’ tolerance and immunizing power becomes more limited. William Dufty, Sugar Blues** Dr. Sam Roberts' writes in his book Exhaustion, Causes and Treatments: Low blood sugar is caused mainly by the overindulgence in sugars and starches. (The latter are converted into sugar by the body.) Other common factors are cigarettes, coffee, excessive alcohol, and other faulty habits. . . All give the patient an immediate "lift", raise the blood sugar temporarily by opening wide the sugar carburetor (islands of Langerhans) to theoretically secrete an overabundance of insulin. . .The "lift" is short-lived, usually not more than two hours, sometimes less. Then all the physical and mental symptoms return with increased intensity. Cited from Natural Health, Sugar and the Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale, c1968
**Early
in April, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old Cincinnati housewife went to the
office of Dr. Harry M. Salzer. She appeared neurotic,and complained of
headache, a constant buzzing in her ears and constant exhaustion. She
told the doctor she was always irritable. She had dizzy spells, and
woke
up often during the night in a cold sweat. Unfounded fear sometimes
overwhelmed her. . .Dr. Salzer immediately gave the woman a glucose
tolerance test to determine the amount of sugar in her blood. He
was not surprised to find that the woman was suffering from
hypoglycemia - low blood sugar. . . He had worked with hundreds of
patients like her, many of them suffering so severely that they had
been hospitalized in mental institutions because the ailment had been
misdiagnosed as insanity. New
York physician John W. Tintera has
estimated that 80% of those in mental hospitals in this country are
victims of hypoglycemia. . . Salzer's therapy was simple.
He
prescribed a diet. Within two weeks the woman's headache had vanished
along with all other symptoms. . . . Dr. Salzer comments, "If the
human animal will follow a diet that resembles that of primitive man,
who ate the meat of small animals, fish, and fowl, who robbed nests of
eggs, ate root and leaf vegetables, nuts, fruits and berries, the body
will function at maximum physiologic efficiency." Cited from Natural Health, Sugar and the
Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale, c1968
** Civil War doctors reduced small pox death from 90% to 5% by using lacto-fermented sauerkraut. (from Sally Fallon, www.westonaprice.org.) Our modern choice is drugs irrespective of nutrition or biological requirements - with some undesirable outcomes: In 1941 just 40,000 units per day for four days was needed to cure pneumonia. TODAY, according to an article titled “The Crisis in Antibiotic Resistance” published in 1992 in Science, “a patient could receive 24 million units of penicillin a day and die of pneumonia.” cited from Alternative Medicine, The Definitive Guide
** The
Food and Drug Adminstration, in evaluating new drugs, errs seriously in
giving no consideration to the effects such drugs may have on an
individual's nutritional
status. That charge was made [more than 37
years ago] . . . by Dr.
Anthony A. Albanese, M.D., before a meeting of the International
Society for Comprehensive Medicine. The society is an organization to
promote the interdisciplinary approach to medical practice . . . In an
interview . . . Dr. Albanese pointed out as prime example of
his contention a talk given the previous day by FDA physician Robert J.
Robinson [who] mentions numerous ways the FDA seeks to determine
possible toxic effects of new drugs, but mentioned not one word about
possible adverse effects on the nutritional status of the patient.
. . Salicylates (aspirin
and similar compounds), Dr. Albanese stated, have been found in his own
studies to lower the blood-sugar levels of children and inhibit the
ability of the children to convert carbohydrate to glucose. This can
lead to even more serious results than the rheumatic and other diseases
the salicylates are used to treat," Dr. Albanese said. Such
results might be severe reduction of resistance to other diseases,
nervous and emotional depression and even mental retardation if the
therapy should be carried on long enough. . . "Yet salicylates are
approved for treatment of rheumatic diseases of children with no
consideration of this dangerous nutritional effect." [Dr. Albanese was]
director of the Burke Rehabilitation Center, White Plains New
York. Cited from Natural Health, Sugar and the
Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale. c 1968
** Over 20,000 research papers spanning more than three decades implicate the abnormal metabolism of insulin (resulting from long term insulin/blood sugar imbalances -caused by sugar, refined flour, chemical overload, lack of nutrients and other “insulin stimulants”) to be the root cause of many of the diseases of modern civilization, including obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis, high triglycerides levels, heart disease, diabetes, many cancers and a growing list of other “mystery” disorders popping up in Western cultures and the U.S. in particular. Robert Atkins M.D., Michael R. Eades, M.D. and Mary Dan Eades, M.D., and others.
**Dr.
Donald Shriber, in Modern Nutrition
(Ocober 1958) describes case
histories of patients with a range of heath complaints including tongue
ulcers, periodontitis, headaches, sinusitis, constipation and high
blood pressure which were improved through elimination of sugar. Here
is the description of a patient with high blood pressure: When sugar
was eliminated from the diet of a patient whom I saw at County
Hospital, the results were quite dramatic. She had a painful
pyorrhoetic condition and a blood pressure of 260/150. She was asked to
stop taking Serpasil (the alkaloid salt of Rauwolfia, that famous root
known for its tranquilizing properties), for two weeks. She had been
taking this drug for a period of two months without any apparent relief
from her high blood pressure. A sugar-free diet was prescribed; and
when she returned two weeks later, a drop of 110 points occurred in her
blood pressure, making it 150/100. Also there was quite a dramatic
reduction in the blood cholesterol, from 360 milligrams per 100 cubic
centimeters of blood to 190 milligrams, which is within normal limits.
Needless to say she left granulated sugar completely out of her diet
and discontinued taking the tranquilizer. Her blood pressure continued
to improve with slight fluctuations around the 130 mark over the
diastolic rnge of from 80 to 85. [Shriber
was corroborated in his finding when] Dr. John Yudkin of Queen
Elizabeth College, London, England recently [1964] set off a bombshell
in the medical world when he announced the results of research which
incriminated sugar as the cause of heart attacks rather than
[saturated] fats or cholesterol. Cited from Natural Health, Sugar and the
Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale, c 1968
** Frederich H. Hoffman, of the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, in his 767-page book, Cancer and Diet has the
following to say: J. Ellis Baker, a layman, in 1924 published a
substantial volume on Cancer,
How It Is Caused; How It Can Be Prevented, with an introduction
by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, which attracted world-wide attention and is
often quoted. This book is largely concerned with the dietary aspects
of cancer which cannot be abbreviated to advantage. He emphasizes the
importance of vitamins and concludes in part: Modern civilized feeding
has two great characteristics. Civilized nations are being starved of
vitamins in the form of green vegetables and especially uncooked
vegetables. . . They are starved of vitamins in the form of the outer
skin of every kind. They are starved
of the vitamins in uncooked
milk and fresh meat. . . He calls attention to the
enormous increase in the per capita consumption of sugar, quoting
Hutchison to the effect that in strong solution sugar is an irritant to
the tissues. . . Hoffman mentions Dr. Bernhard Fischer-Wasels, Director
of the Pathological Institute of the University of Frankfort, who in a
monograph on Methods of Preventing
Cancerous Diseases was emphatic
in pointing out the danger and harmfulness of excessive carbohydrate nutrition,
and the danger of excessive sugar intake. . . .[In
addition] Dr. Melvin Page, in his book Degeneraton-Regeneration,
said: We believe that the sugar
level of the blood is even more important than Dr. Meyerhoff states. We
do not remember seeing a single cancer case who had a correct sugar
level, yet in most non-cancer cases this is easily obtained by a
sugar-free diet alone. Cited
from Natural
Health, Sugar and the
Criminal Mind by J.I. Rodale, c1968
**
Dietary
cholesterol does not play a role in over-producing cholesterol in the
liver. In
fact, the only “low-cholesterol” diet you can go on is a diet rich in
cholesterol . . . Drug companies continue to market [and research
cholesterol-lowering]
drugs, instead of simply telling people to eat cholesterol and decrease
sugar
and stimulant consumption. Eating
cholesterol is the only healthy way to block cholesterol production in
the
body. Eating cholesterol is one of the best things you can do for your
body.
Diane Schwarzbein M.D., The
Schwarzbein Principle (Also
see “the Cholesterol Myths” at
www.westonaprice.org)
** Children on
low-fat diets suffer from growth problems,
failure to thrive & learning disabilities. (Food Chem News
10/3/94)
** SATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN THE BLOOD ARE NOT AN APPROPRIATE MARKER OF DIETARY FAT INTAKE BUT ARE RATHER A MARKER OF CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE. Mary Enig, PhD
** The all-cause
death rate is higher in individuals with cholesterol levels lower than
180 mg/dl. (Circulation 1992
86:3:1026-1029)
**
The annual all-cause
death rate of vegetarian men is SLIGHTLY MORE than that of
non-vegetarian men (.93% vs .89%); the
annual death rate of vegetarian
women is SIGNIFICANTLY MORE than that of non-vegetarian women (.86% vs
.54%) (Am J Clin Nutr 1982 36:873)
** The
International
Atherosclerosis Project found that
vegetarians had just as much atherosclerosis as meat eaters. (Lab
Invest 1968 18:498)
** Low-fat
diets
are
associated with increased rates of
depression, psychological problems, fatigue, violence and suicide. (Lancet
3/21/92 v339)
**
Fifty years of
mainstream
nutritional research and hundreds of millions
of research dollars have NOT proved that eating a low fat diet will
help you live longer. Gary Taubes, Science,
March 30, 2001. (Also see
www.westonaprice.org and Heart
Frauds by Charles T. McGee, M.D.)
** The fatty acids found in artery clogs are mostly UNSATURATED (74%) of which 41% are POLYUNSATURATED. (Lancet 1994 344:1195)