On Apr 20, 10:40*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Apr 20, 7:10*am, notbob > wrote:
>
> > On 2011-04-20, James Silverton > wrote:
>
> > > There is a rather sensible article available on the Los Angeles Times
>
> > The whole thing is pointless drivel unworthy of exploration beyond the
> > reference to like pap on that other useless rag on the Right Coast.
> > The whole planet is circling the drain and these oxygen wasters ponder
> > sugar. *No wonder newspapers are dying ...and rightfully so.
>
> this is old news. Back in the 70s, I read "Sugar Blues" by William
> Dufty, which cited a "Dr. William Coda Martin," who wrote in 1957.
>
> WHY SUGAR IS TOXIC TO THE BODY
>
> In 1957, Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: When is
> a food a food and when is it a poison? His working definition of
> "poison" was: "Medically: Any substance applied to the body, ingested
> or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.
> Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst
> which is a minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a
> reaction."1 The dictionary gives an even broader definition for
> "poison": "to exert a harmful influence on, or to pervert".
>
> Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been
> depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. "What is left
> consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this
> refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins
> and minerals are present. Nature supplies these elements in each plant
> in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in that
> particular plant. There is no excess for other added carbohydrates.
> Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of 'toxic
> metabolite' such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containing five
> carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system
> and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic
> metabolites interfere with the respiration of the cells. They cannot
> get sufficient oxygen to survive and function normally. In time, some
> of the cells die. This interferes with the function of a part of the
> body and is the beginning of degenerative disease."2
>
> 1,2. Martin, William Coda, "When is a Food a Food-and When a Poison?",
> Michigan Organic News, March 1957, p. 3.

Those are clear statements. Is " Nature supplies these elements in
each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize the carbohydrate in
that particular plant" supported by anything other than opinion? The
opinion by the person who opines that foods have a "life force"? "Elan
vital" dates from when "acute indigestion" was a common name for a
heart attack

Some "organic" foods (manure and kerosene are organic) are sweetened
not with sugar, but with "dehydrated cane juice." The sugar I get is
mostly in food other people cook. At home, I use less than a a pound a
year, much of it in other people's coffee.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.