How natural is sugar really and what does that have to do with sugar and your brain? Let us take a look at sugar and why sugar and your brain is a bad combination.

In its natural state as it exists within the stalk of a 20 ‘ sugar cane plant or in the ground as a sugar beet. It'd be actually nasty to chew on a stalk so sugar is extracted and processed to make it taste so exquisite.

Sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. In nature the harmful issues connected with fructose are drastically reduced when fiber and fructose are mixed together as in a stalk.

Sadly, nature’s protective mechanism is destroyed by all of these processing measures employed in refining sugar.

The fast answer is that commercial sugar is extremely refined, chemically altered, and bleached white with chemicals to offer a sweet substance with a pure appearance.

Sadly natural is hardly the facts. To actually make sugar from the sugar cane stalk, one first has to crush the stalk to a fine pulp. Next the pulp is filtered by adding hydrochloric or sulfuric acid or even some enzymes to “cleanse “the pulp from all of its healthy “impurities”.

Next, using high speed spinning devices like the spin cycle in your washer, the molasses component is separated from the crystals. Then it’s bleached, boiled, scrubbed, dried and then finally crystallized to achieve its agreeable appearance.

Chemicals like chlorine, titanium dioxide (used to bleach but also contains arsenic), sodium nitrate, and even ground bone are used in the processing. But after all is said and done, we have “Natural Sugar.”

Of course it is unfair, false, and illogical to call sugar natural after all this processing, nonetheless it still is known as “natural.” So if sugar is truly that bad for your health than how can one scale back sugar addiction and stay away from it? Sugar and your brain do not mix.

Daniel Amen, doctor and author, talks about six steps to controlling food cravings. He states that “There’s a brain-based reason why you hunger for high-sugar, fat rich foods. These foods work on the same parts of the brain that cause addiction to heroin and morphine!” Sugar and your brain do not mix.

Surprising isn’t it? When you realize sugar is to your brain what heroin and morphine is, you could be asking the best way to end sugar longings and stop damaging your brain from sugar.

By changing your brain, you can help get the body you want! By giving your brain a negative reply when you eat sweet foods and blocking the expected sweet taste, your brain will not desire sugar. And as I showed you above, sugar is natural but in fact , it’s a perilous substance. Sugar and your grey matter don’t mix.

So get control now over sugar cravings and stop the dangers of sugar on your brain.

Robert Carlson, MD, FACS, is a heart surgeon now practicing preventive medicine to keep his patients off operating tables. In his quest to help his patients stop sugar cravings, he created Stop-it, an all natural herbal lozenge that blocks the taste of sugar.

Tags: Alternative Medicine, stop sugar cravings, Sugar Addiction, sugar and your brain

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