Professor John Yudkin, a British nutritional expert and author of Pure, White, and Deadly insists that sugar is the primary cause of heart disease. Many people now consume 1201bs of sugar yearly. Those who consume half (still far too high compared to turn-of-the-century consumptions when CHD was virtually unheard of) have six times the chance of coming down with heart disease. Why is this?

Sugar does to the body what aviation fuel would do to a car engine – it burns it out. Natural foods, such as fruits, contain natural sugar bound into their structures, and as such they are released slowly and steadily into the bloodstream; but when refined sugar is consumed, as found in sweets, desserts, chocolates, and fizzy drinks (drinks containing saccharin are just as bad since their taste preserves and encourages the sweet tooth syndrome, quite apart from the fact that artificial sweeteners are chemicals which have been linked to stomach cancer), the body is put on red alert and hormones such as insulin are released into the bloodstream to bring sugar levels back to normal.

Unfortunately this emergency reaction often goes too far the other way, causing blood sugar levels to drop below desired levels, making the person crave a sugar boost all over again. (The same principle occurs with nicotine and smoking.) It is no coincidence that the enormous increase in obesity and diabetes (themselves linked, since obese people often become diabetic) are due to twentieth century per capita sugar consumption going through the roof.

There is an even more sinister link between sugar consumption and peripheral arterial disease which can be brought on by constant distortion of the sugar balance in the blood. Peripheral artery disease can lead to gangrene.

It is important to reduce sugar consumption to the minimum. At first this will be difficult, but it is amazing how quickly the palate becomes re-educated so that the accidental addition of sugar in tea or coffee as before becomes completely unacceptable.

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