It’s difficult to find food products without sugar. Read your labels and you will find added sugar in more food than you ever imagined. Add all foods that we know contains sugar, such as cold cereal, drinks, candy and desserts. Then look at foods we add sugar to, hot chocolate, coffee, tea, cooked fruit and all the desserts we love. Is it any wonder we are a nation of sugar addicts? Is it possible to reeducate our taste buds for better health? Besides the unhealthy weight sugar adds to our frame, it subjects us to more heart disease and hardening of the arteries. For the sake of health, can we break ourselves of sugar addiction?

We are a nation of sugar lovers and it makes us one of the unhealthiest nations. Sugar destroys teeth and that isn’t the only concern. Sugar deteriorates the heart, reproductive organs and circulatory system. Sugar can be responsible for hardening the arteries, coronary thrombosis, varicose veins, cystic mastitis,difficulties with the menstrual cycle, impotence and infertility in the male, complications of pregnancy and cancer of the sexual organs of the female. Fifty years ago sugar in the average diet came in unrefined sugars in grapes, fruits and starches along with vitamins and nutrients. Today the white sugar on the market contains no vitamins, minerals or proteins. It was developed because the food industry thought shoppers would buy a pure white product. It was a fashion statement.

Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (LOC) (Photo credit: The Library of Congress)

The sugar refining process takes place in giant machines that spin,filter and separate the sugar cane. Water, phosphoric acid, diatamaceous earth and lime are added to the cane. You might think the “raw brown” sugar in health stores is better but reports have come out showing that raw brown sugar promoted by health stores is produced by adding molasses to the refined white sugar. They also add a special crystallization process to create a raw look. The filtration units, out of which the molasses comes, are filled with charred beef bones to give the sugar a more natural look. So that’s another little scam to pull the wool over our eyes.

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Sugar goes into the body from canned food, frozen food, packaged baked food, condiments,fruit drinks, gelatin, cold cereal, jam and jelly, peanut butter, soft drinks and desserts. And that’s just a few. Read your labels and see how many more products you find containing sugar. Most cola drinks contain at least 10% of sugar, the other 90% is caffeine, phosphoric acid, artificial coloring and artificial flavoring. If you think a bottle of soda can do you no harm, drop some ten penny nails into a bottle of soda, let it sit for 48 hours, then take a look. More than likely the nails will be fully or partially dissolved. Carlton Fredericks says the American intake of soda is so great that “The steel used for bottled tops outweighs the steel used for automobile bodies in any given year.”

Propaganda tells us that sugar is an energy food but the fact is, it takes more energy to digest sugar than sugar can produce for our bodies to make use of. What we need to do is reeducate our taste buds. Teach them that a pear tastes better than a piece of chocolate cake, that a glass of apple cider is better than a coke. To start this reeducation process, use honey or blackstrap molasses to sweeten your cereal, tea and desserts. Use carob as a chocolate substitute and eat rich dried fruit. They are extremely sweet and satisfying, plus they are filled with vitamins and all things that are good for a healthy body.