Excess sugar levels in the blood of diabetics and pre-diabetics damage arteries, kidneys, eyes, and the brain. One way to reduce this problem is to eat less sugar. But sugar is bi-i-i-i-ig business and billions are spent every year promoting and marketing sweets in every conceivable way..
We now consume half-a-pound of sugar per day for every man, woman, and child in the nation. No wonder many folk you pass in the street have a crazed look in their eyes!!!
Much of the sugar added to our food is hidden in label schemes such as"grape juice concentrate", and "sweetened with fruit juice", and "corn syrup". All these are simply refined liquid sugars. And our tardy health authorities have yet to advise the public that refined sugar is every bit as big a health risk as fat.
Their negligence has taken a toll. Pre-diabetes is now a epidemic in America, with all its attendant problems of blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and early death. I know that diabetic damage from sugar occurs mainly by oxidation of fat molecules, to form toxic lipid peroxides. Numerous recent studies show that the antioxidant vitamin E can protect diabetic animals from this damage. It works by complex mechanisms that also appear to neutralize suagr directly, in addition to reducing peroxide formation.(Studies now show that it does the same for humans)
So even if you cant dodge all the sugar in your diet, anitoxidants can save you from a lot of its damaging effects..
We now consume half-a-pound of sugar per day for every man, woman, and child in the nation. No wonder many folk you pass in the street have a crazed look in their eyes!!!
Much of the sugar added to our food is hidden in label schemes such as"grape juice concentrate", and "sweetened with fruit juice", and "corn syrup". All these are simply refined liquid sugars. And our tardy health authorities have yet to advise the public that refined sugar is every bit as big a health risk as fat.
Their negligence has taken a toll. Pre-diabetes is now a epidemic in America, with all its attendant problems of blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, and early death. I know that diabetic damage from sugar occurs mainly by oxidation of fat molecules, to form toxic lipid peroxides. Numerous recent studies show that the antioxidant vitamin E can protect diabetic animals from this damage. It works by complex mechanisms that also appear to neutralize suagr directly, in addition to reducing peroxide formation.(Studies now show that it does the same for humans)
So even if you cant dodge all the sugar in your diet, anitoxidants can save you from a lot of its damaging effects..