White Sugar – Sweet Poison

Sugar is referred to as white poison! We eat many a varieties of sweets made from
sugar. The money we spend on sugar and sweets will cost us many times on doctors
and medicines.
The only sweet item that doesn’t cause you any harm, but is helpful as an eatable as
well as medicine is honey. The second place goes to sugar cane. Sugar cane juice
doesn’t harm your body. Instead it provides you energy.
People have learnt to convert sugarcane into sugar for their needs. Sugarcane juice
is boiled thoroughly to drive the water content out of it. In the process, the vitamins
that dissolve in water go out in the form of water vapor. Other vitamins, minerals
and nutrients too are lost in the making of sugar.
Sugarcane juice you drink doesn’t give rise to phlegm because it has ‘C’ vitamin and
other nutrients. On the contrary, consuming sugar made out of sugar cane, leads to
certain health problems without our knowledge.
Making of Sugar
Let’s analyze what process takes place in the making of white sugar from black sugar
cane. It needs heat process at different levels while removing its fiber completely.
Any sweet minus fiber is harmful to health. Its process needs binding agents to make
it firm, anti-oxidants to prevent it from melting, preservatives to safeguard it from
bacteria, some soluble agents to hasten its melting in our mouth or in water, some
coloring agents to give it a shining white look. Sugar is made attractive and alluring
by adding harmful chemical agents. Medicines are also made of many such different
chemicals. That’s why if the uses from these medicines are five, their side effects
are six or seven. Hence the frequent use of many medicines is not advisable.
The problems that arise out of sweet
Sugar or sweets made from sugar left in the gaps of teeth is formed into acids and
split by bacteria that decalcinate the teeth. On the contrary honey has anti-biotic
qualities. It also has a strong alkaline quality. As a result the honey clears the
bacteria in between the teeth. Also honey has fluorine that helps strengthening
teeth. Sugar can decay and spoil the teeth. The raw material for sugar – the sugar
cane doesn’t cause your teeth any harm! Understand the difference between a
natural food and an artificial one! Man’s creation is only for destruction of God’s
creation!
The difference between sugar and sugar cane speaks about the difference in the
natures between man and God.
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Let’s observe an experiment conducted in a chemical lab. The scientist kept sugar
cane mixed with saliva in one bowl and sugar mixed with saliva in another bowl.
They removed good, healthy teeth and kept them in these two bowls. After a few
weeks they observed that the teeth kept in the sugar cane juice were in tact,
whereas the teeth in the sugar became decalcified. The scientists have noticed how
the white sugar has affected the sugar patients. They have observed yet another
point. People living in the same area were affected differently by their different food
habits. Those who had used sugar cane juice since childhood had no diabetic
problem, whereas those who consume sugar, most of them became diabetics.
You feel hungry when the sugar count comes down in the blood. If you take sugar at
that time it provides the energy (calories) required and at once the sugar count
shoots up, but your hunger is lost! Food that contains vitamins, minerals, proteins,
fats and fibrous material along with energy (carbohydrates) is useful to the body.
Sugar doesn’t have all these nutrients. If these nutrients are missing in our food, it
doesn’t reach the cells properly from the blood vessels. Then the nutrients stored in
the body have to be used. One problem leads to the other. The intake of sugar
consumes the nutrients stored in the body. Then it becomes necessary to store
vitamins, minerals etc in the body, which in turn lays a foundation for diseases or
infections. For one who eats lots of sugar (sweets) the nutrients in his body will
always be on the debit side! Can you live in peace if you have many debts? A rich
man is not one who earns more, but one who doesn’t depend on borrowed money!
The same way a healthy man is one who doesn’t have debts or problems inside the
body.
By eating sugar or food made of sugar, your body gets only energy devoid of
nutrients, which is at once converted into fat. With that body becomes bloated. Daily
consumption of sodas, cool drinks, candies, bakery items, sweets etc help you
become fat and deficient in nutrients leading to ill health. Fat people look healthy,
but in fact they are weak, lacking in energy. Putting on weight by eating food that
has nutritious value is a healthy sign. Excess usage of sugar increases the
percentage of fat content like ‘cholesterol’ ‘triglycerides’ in the blood. It results in
heart trouble, B.P. and blockage in the blood vessels.
On the contrary, sugar cane juice has fibrous material, vitamins and minerals have
no scope for fat to increase in the body. Fresh fruits, honey or dry fruits have sugar
(energy - calories) as glucose and fructose, but also useful ingredients like minerals,
vitamins, fiber, proteins and fats that don’t cause any harm to the body. But the
same fresh fruits, processed with ice and sugar, are not very helpful. Again there is
no point in drinking bottled and refrigerated fruit juices. They may be tasty to drink
but not good for health. For that matter, any processed food with preservatives is
not in the interest of the body.
All roads lead to Rome. You try any path, philosophy based on knowledge, or science
based on reason both advocate peace and happy life to man. But to reach such
happiness and peace you should have a healthy life which in turn is based on the
food you take.
You should not become a slave to circumstances. You must make circumstances your
slave. You should not yield to the desires of your senses. If you eat natural food
suitable to the body, you become healthy. Instead if you eat food demanded by the
tongue, you become a patient. ‘As science advances, poetry declines’ -Not only
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poetry, even natural life declines. Man has learnt to preserve food and to make tasty
food there by killing its natural taste, vigor and energy.
It is made crystal clear to you about the crystal sugar! Still, if you long for the taste
of sugar, it only harms your body leading to greater risks. ‘As you sow, so you reap’.
As you eat, so is your health and happiness. Everything is in your hands!