For a diabetic sugar is little better than poison and something that you need to avoid at all costs.  Even none diabetics should completely avoid sugar.  It has been well documented just how bad sugar is for you in books such as:

Sugar Blues by William Dufty ( available from Amazon books for £4.01 )

The Saccharine Disease by T L Cleave ( again, I have found this at my local library but not been able to find a copy for sale) This is quite heavy reading but very interesting.

The following is an example of how badly sugar affects your blood readings:

While working I needed some bread for with my lunch.  I could only manage to find bread that had sugar in and as I was starving hungry I thought I would risk it.  My blood readings are very rarely higher than 8 after a meal, but after including four slices of bread with sugar in, my reading rose to 16.  It destabilized my readings not just that day but for a couple of days afterwards.  Now I always make sure that I have something like a packet of Ryvita's with me in case I can't get hold of pitta breads or bread without sugar.  Always check the ingredients labels, sugar is included in almost all prepared products.

My wife gave up sugar a long time before me.  Occasionally when she has been going through a particularly depressing time (the death of one of our animals), she has had a vegan chocolate and marzipan bar.  On each occasion that she has done this, she has deeply regretted it and sworn never to do it again.  Just one small bar causes, whitlows on several of her fingers, her nails to peel off, the skin on her hands to peel off, large patches of psoriasis on her hips and her Candida Albicans to flare up.  Several years ago she had a very bad fall hurting the front of her leg about six inches below the knee.  This caused a small varicose vein. This vein starts to itch like mad whenever she has had sugar.  My wife is not a diabetic, she is just someone who discovered how bad sugar is for our health.  Like most of us, at times, she finds it hard to resist temptation.  My wife was suffering just a small number of the ill effects of sugar.  You will see a more comprehensive list at the end of this page.  The list: '124 Ways Sugar Ruins Your Health' has been compiled by Nancy Appleton PhD the author of LICK THE SUGAR HABIT.

An acquaintance of ours was diagnosed with diabetes a few months prior to me.  He had an initial lower blood sugar reading than me, but followed the advise of the doctor and the nutritionist.  He was told that he didn't have to give up alcohol, that he should carry on consuming sugar and that in fact it was essential for him to carry on eating it, that he should continue to eat regular amounts of meat and dairy products.  He was put on to oral drugs and also had to be put on to drugs to lower his cholesterol levels as these were far too high.  He was told that he did not need to monitor his blood sugar readings daily. How can he know if his blood is high if he never monitors it? How can he know which foods affect him badly?  

He now looks like death warmed up and has hypoglycemia attacks every afternoon.  He is convinced that you can't possibly be a diabetic unless you have hypo's.  We have tried to explain to him that these are a side effect of the drugs that he has been prescribed, but we just can't make him understand.  We have also tried to explain that if he cut out the meat and dairy and substituted plant based protein in his diet, he would be able to bring his cholesterol levels down.  Unfortunately, like most people he thinks that doctors and nutritionists are experts and are never wrong.  You get bad doctors and nutritionists,  just as you get bad builders and plumbers.  Do the research yourself and if you are given poor or incorrect information, point it out to the person who is giving you that information.  When my doctor and diabetic nurse told me that I could continue to eat sugar and consume alcohol, I replied that, 'Yes I could,  if I wanted to put myself in an early grave.  I can do without these products but I don't want to lose my life.'  

Perhaps at this stage you are thinking, 'Well I don't really have any sugar in my diet'.  Unless you are already the sort of person who takes great care and reads every label, I can practically guarantee that you are consuming sugar and probably in quite large quantities. Sugar is an addictive substance and the manufacturers are well aware of this fact.  They want you to buy their product again; one way of doing this is to add sugar.  Sugar (in one form or another) is not just added to sweet products, it is added to tinned vegetables, tinned and packet soups, cooking sauces, breakfast cereals, breads and savoury biscuits, dried fruit (unbelievable isn't it, something as naturally sweet as dried fruit and they coat it in glucose syrup), ready prepared savouries such as samosas, pies, etc, etc.  I could be here for the next two weeks listing all of the things that they add it to.

Head for your food cupboard, read the labels and make a note of all the substances that you eat, that contain sugar.  One site that I looked at on the internet had information about how much sugar different foods contained.  I was horrified to see that one breakfast cereal contained over fifty percent sugar.  If that same breakfast cereal came without sugar, would you weigh yourself four ounces of the cereal and then add four ounces of sugar?  Most people would be horrified at the thought. The average person consumes 115lbs of sugar a year.  115lbs of poison being put into your system.  Are you one of those people?

If you are thinking of reaching for the artificial sweeteners instead, I would strongly advise you to take a look over on the links page at a site called 'laleva.cc'.  This site details the history of artificial sweeteners and warns of all the dangers associated with them.  It has a large amount of information about Aspartame.  Artificial sweeteners are something that diabetics especially, should steer clear of.  

Learn To Live Without Overly Sweet Foods

When you are continuously eating sweet foods you fail to notice the natural sweetness of simple foods such as carrots.  When you purge your body of the noxious sugar, you will start to taste the ingredients and not just the added sugar.  You will notice how much flavour and sweetness most foods contain.  This natural sweetness will be released slowly into your body as it is gradually digested, instead of the refined sugar that shoots straight into your blood stream.  With refined sugar you will get a big high but will pay for it with a big low.  Most people are sugar junkies and will get big withdrawal symptoms when they try to cut the sugar out.  Persevere, it will be well worth it in the end.    Throw out all the sugar and check the ingredients of EVERY SINGLE product that you buy.  Included with sugar are glucose, glucose polymers, sucrose, fructose, lactose, all sugars including the different types of brown, golden syrup, maltodextrin, blackstrap molasses, treacle,  glycerin/glycerol.

Take a look at the following list and see if you still have the urge to consume sugar in your diet.  Nancy Appleton, PhD very kindly gave permission for the list to be reprinted here.

124 Ways Sugar
Ruins Your Health

By Nancy Appleton, PhD

Print this list and tape it to your refrigerator or sugar bowl. (See below for clinical documentation of each statement.)

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.

2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.

3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.

4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.

5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).

6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.

7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.

8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.

9. Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostrate, and rectum.

10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.

11. Sugar causes copper deficiency.

12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.

13. Sugar can weaken eyesight.

14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.

15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.

16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.

17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.

18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.

19. Sugar can cause premature aging.

20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.

21. Sugar can cause tooth decay.

22. Sugar contributes to obesity.

23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.

24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.

25. Sugar can cause arthritis.

26. Sugar can cause asthma.

27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).

28. Sugar can cause gallstones.

29. Sugar can cause heart disease.

30. Sugar can cause appendicitis.

31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis.

32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.

33. Sugar can cause varicose veins.

34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.

35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.

36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.

37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.

38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.

39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood.

40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone.

41. Sugar can increase cholesterol.

42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure.

43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.

44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non- enzymatically to protein)

45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.

46. Sugar causes food allergies.

47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.

48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.

49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.

50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.

51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA

52. Sugar can change the structure of protein.

53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.

54. Sugar can cause cataracts.

55. Sugar can cause emphysema.

56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.

57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL).

58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.

59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function.

60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.

61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.

62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide.

63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.

64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney.

65. Sugar can damage the pancreas.

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 dificult.

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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