I
transcribed the following from a brilliant book by William Dufty,
pages 89 to 92:
Science
writer A. W. Pezet, trained at Harvard and MIT was misdiagnosed and
mistreated for ten years before he found a doctor who spotted the
trouble, confirmed it with a GTT test, and took him off sugar. Pezet
saw his symptoms fade. He asked some hard questions of his physician,
Dr. E. M. Abrahamson. “Why do so many doctors know little or
nothing about a constellation of symptoms which afflicts millions of
people? If the diagnosis is so simple, and the removal of the cause
of the symptoms is simpler still, what’s happened to medical
education?”
Pezet’s
sense of mission deepended when he discovered that his wife suffered
the same symptoms he had and quitting sugar gave her the same relief.
The result was the Abrahamson-Pezet collaboration, a landmark volume:
Body, Mind and Sugar, first published in 1951. Its sale of over
200,000 copies in hardcover was evidence of the intense public
interest in the subject.
...Patients
began asking their doctors for GTT tests, and the word hypoglycemia
passed into common currency. Unfortunately, use of the terms like
“low blood sugar” and “sugar starved” on the paperback
edition, published later, created some confusion. Many people were
led to believe misinformed doctors who said that the answer to “sugar
starvation” was to eat candy bars between meals.
In
1969, nutritionist Carlton Fredericks collaborated with Dr. Herman
Goodman on the invaluable popular book, Low Blood Sugar and You.
Despite
such medical and general books and articles, the AMA continues to
assure America that they know best about what’s not supposed to be
ailing us. The Journal of the American Medical Association pronounced
in 1973:
“Recent
publicity in the popular press has led the public to believe that the
occurrence of hypoglycemia is widespread in this country and that
many of the symptoms that affect the American population are not
recognized as being caused by this condition. These claims are not
supported by medical evidence...
“Hypoglycemia
means low level of blood sugar. When it occurs, it is often attended
by symptoms of sweating, shakiness, trembling, anxiety, fast heart
action, headache, hunger sensations, brief feelings of weakness, and,
occasionally, seizures and coma. However, the majority of people with
these kinds of symptoms do not have hypoglycemia.”
How
in the name of Allah can they claim to know?
What
are they telling us? Only a minority, maybe 49.2 percent, of the U.S.
population has hypoglycemia?
Among
the people who wondered about that point was Marilyn Hamilton Light,
Executive Director of the Adrenal Metabolic Research Society of the
Hypoglycemia Foundation. (She had suffered through the same nightmare
as Dr. Gyland and A. W. Pezet.) According to the foundation files,
their average undiagnosed or misdiagnosed victim of the sugar blues
has visited twenty physicians and four psychiatrists before discovering
(by word of mouth, pure chance, or reading) the possibility of their
having hypoglycemia, later confirmed by a GTT test.
Marilyn
Light wrote the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and asked
for their figures on the prevalence of hypoglycemia in the U.S.
Here’s the answer she received:
“.
. . unpublished data from the Health Interview show that an estimated
66,000 cases were reported in household interviews of the civilian,
non-institutional population during the fiscal year of 1966-67.
“Out
of 134,000 people interviewed, 66,000 cases of hypoglycemia were
reported. This represents 49.2 percent of those interviewed.”
Not
a majority, only 49.2 percent!
Further
inquiry to the Agency established the following points:
1.
The same interview sample is used by the U.S. government to establish
data and rends on all sorts of health problems.
2.
People interviewed were not prompted in any way. Neither the word
hypoglycemia nor the term “low blood sugar” appeared on the
checklist of chronic conditions people were asked about.
3.
Interviewers had to depend on a catch-all question: “Do you have
any other condition?” to get their answers.
4.
The respondents had to be aware of their condition, they had to know
what to call it, and they had to be willing to volunteer it to the
interviewer before they were counted.
5.
Despite the fact that 49.2 figure is already ten years old [45 years
old by 2011], and should represent a major alert on the widespread
prevalence of the sugar blues (comparative epidemic basis), the HEW
never subsequently added hypoglycemia to the survey checklist and
“has no plans in the near future to include it.”
Are
you ready for that?
Can
you imagine the HEW and the AMA calling off a drive against cancer or
heart disease because it does not yet afflict the majority of the
population, only a paltry 49.2 percent?
The
difference between the expensive diseases like cancer and the cheap
ones like sugar blues is crucial. Present-day orthodox treatment for
cancer is fiendishly expensive. Your financial ruin is your doctor’s
yacht. The treatment for sugar blues or hypoglycemia is a
do-it-yourself proposition. Kick man-refined sugar and say goodbye to
doctor and hospital bills. Mink coats for the wives and sunshine
seminars in Bermuda can hardly be squeezed from that.
By
the 1970s, the slogan was preventive medicine. What the
diseasestablishment means by preventive medicine, however, is regular
and costly visits to an MD or clinic for expensive tests, and, maybe,
a free sermon on smoking or cholesterol if Doc can hide his paunch
under his white coat and abstain from tobacco long enough to deliver
it. Plenty of money can be made from this kind of preventive
medicine, from people terrified of cancer and heart disease.
Medicine
has only one valid answer for preventing the sugar blues, or
hypoglycemia, or pre-diabetes: preventive nutrition. Stop eating
sugar. Stop! Before you ruin your adrenals. Before you end up with
symptoms of the sugar blues, hypoglycemia, prediabetic condition,
diabetes mellitus, whatever you want to call it.
How
much money can anybody charge your for simple advice like that?
. . .
The
above is an excerpt from “Sugar Blues” by William Dufty. I highly
recommend buying the book and reading it fully. There is a
fascinating tale of medical history, links between cane plantations
and crusades, links between sugar consumption and war, slavery caused
by the need for people to work sugarcane plantations, the development
of beet-sugar and it’s connection to the abolition of slavery, and
countless excerpts from history that pharmaceutical companies don’t
want you to know.
Personally:
I saw multiple doctors in my teens for my own problems. My family
didn’t have a lot of money to throw at seeing physicians, so when
the time came where I was paralyzed with pain hours each and every
day, I finally hit the internet for answers. Six years of daily
research later, I’m ridiculed as an extremist. I’ve been told the
classic countless times: “It’s all in your head.” Let me ask
you something: is it all in your head? Or is your suffering
completely real and tangible and affecting every part of your life
negatively?
For
anyone who doesn’t believe now, you will in twenty years. The man who
invented insulin as a treatment for diabetes admitted years later
that insulin will not cure diabetes, but elimination of sugar could.
Man-refined sugars, including corn syrup, cane sugar, brown sugar,
molasses, etc. Next time you have a headache, stomach ache,
back-pain, feeling of weakness, etc, think about what you ate most
recently and over the past three days.
When
you know the facts about high fructose corn syrup, sugar (even
“naturally milled organic cane sugar”), agave nectar, etc, you will begin to feel very differently about your friends offering you candies and desserts.
They’re
coming up with new ways to poison us all the time: not because they
want us to die, but because they don’t care if we do. They’ll be
rich, and we’ll be suffering until we’re dead.
Who
is this proverbial “they”?
The
pharmaceutical owners, the owners of sugarcane plantations, the
manufacturers of corn syrup, the leaders of companies like
Monsanto... These days they’re trying to tell us that Canola Oil is
healthy and the MSG is natural...
