Sugar – White Poison

Sugar is selling at Rs. 70 a kilo and expected to rise up to Rs. 100 during the ensuing Ramadhan, thanks to the Sugar Mills cartel and its manipulative import from Brazil. But, do we know that by consuming sugar we subject ourselves to slow poisoning and pay for it too?! Of all the foods consumed today, refined sugar is considered to be one of the most harmful.

Sugars are refined from natural foods like sugar cane or sugar beets by removing all elements of food until only the sugar remains. All vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes and every nutrient is removed until only the sugar remains. During the refining process, 64 food elements are destroyed. All the potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, phosphate, and sulfate are removed. The A, D, and B, vitamins destroyed.

What happens when you eat a refined carbohydrate like sugar devoid of fiber, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes and any other nutrient? Your body has to borrow the vital nutrients from healthy cells to metabolize the incomplete food. Calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium are taken from various parts of the body to burn the sugar. Many times, so much calcium is consumed to neutralize the effects of sugar that the bones become osteoporotic due to the withdrawn calcium.

A body depleted of various vitamins, minerals, enzymes and nutrients cannot properly handle and rid itself of the poisonous residues. These wastes accumulate through the brain and nervous system, which speeds up cellular death. The bloodstream becomes over-loaded with waste products and symptoms of carbonic poisoning result.

Sugar also makes the blood very thick and sticky, inhibiting much of the blood flow into the minute capillaries that supply our retina, internal ear, gums and teeth with vital nutrients. Therefore, we wind up soon with defective vision, impaired hearing, diseased gums and starving teeth.

Due to the constraints of time and space only some of the above ill effects of sugar are pointed out. Is it worth it to buy this White Poison and at that exorbitant price too? Boycott sugar in its all manifestations, tea, desserts, halwas, sweet meats, colas and juices and save your lives. Use instead gur only, the darker the better.  Incidentally, sugar prices will tumble down to pre Ayub era.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)