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Sugar Blues by William Dufty

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...

Thanksgiving 2010 | Raw Food Blog Entry

November 22nd 2010

I had an excellent Thanksgiving Feast yesterday. My husband and I journeyed out (from Walnut Creek, CA) to Berkeley (California). This feast was with friends and strangers alike.

Raw Pumpkin "Cheesecake" Pie

While having many different thought-provoking conversations we happily devoured:

• Pomegranate salad lightly sweetened with fresh-squeezed orange juice.
• "Eggnog" made from almond milk and banana.
• Creamy Sweet Garlic Dressing which I enjoyed both over seed chips and over the Pomegranate salad.
• Red Pepper Soup and Broccoli soup. My husband enjoyed these best mixed with added fresh parsley and cilantro.
• Sweet "Green Drink" made up of many vegetables including broccoli and many fruits including pears.
• Cinnamon Fruit Salad made up of persimmons, apples, other fruit and much cinnamon.
• A spicy salsa that my husband and I made served with butter-leaf lettuce.
• Autumn Curry with mushrooms and broccoli. This was a popular favorite among the table and the first dish to be entirely devoured.
• A pâté made by the host including green onion, avocado, garlic and other deliciousness served with fresh lettuce.
• Blueberry Pandowdy, my personal favorite. Blueberries covered in a delicious simple crumble top.
• Chocolate Mint Banana Pudding, which I brought. One of my favorites lately. Made with much fresh mint.
• Pumpkin Date Pie, with no actual pumpkin included. It was made from persimmons.
• Pumpkin "Cheesecake" Pie, made with a almond and date crust and a filling including cashews, pumpkin and spices.

Fruit salad, salsa on lettuce and seed chip pieces


Lettuce with pâté and tomato, and autumn curry


Blueberry Pandowdy


Pumpkin Date Pie


Pumpkin "Cheesecake" Pie

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Come again!

~ Raederle

[As of today -- November 22nd 2010 -- I've been 100% raw for 80 days! Still loving it.]

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Mint Cantaloupe Smoothie | Raederle's Raw Recipe

A daring recipe for the young at heart.

• 1 cup cantaloupe (roughly a quarter of a full sized cantaloupe) 
• 1 large ripe banana (or two to three small bananas) 
• 1 drop mint oil or 15-20 fresh mint leaves
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• ½ teaspoon vanilla powder (or 1 drop vanilla extract, unsweetened)
• 1 pinch cinnamon
• ½ cup water (give or take a little)

Directions & Notes:

Selecting Cantaloupe

When buying cantaloupe search for an unbruised melon that has a little give in the skin. Squeezing these melons takes some finger strength, but it should have a slight squish if you give it a good squeeze. If there is no give, then it is under-ripe. If it is squishy without much effort, it is very over ripe. It seems to be much more common to find them very under ripe and hard. Leave it on your table for a couple of days if you can only find them under-ripe.

Preparing Cantaloupe

Cut cantaloupe and half and scoop the seeds out of the part you are about to use. If you're saving a piece for later, leave the seeds in that piece to keep it fresher. When scraping out the seeds, try to leave as much as possible of the soft part of the cantaloupe that is next to the seeds. That part is very sweet and delicious. Put the seeds and rind in your compost when you're finished.

Compost

If you do not have a compost, but do have a yard or a garden, consider digging a few holes during a season where the ground is somewhat soft and disposing of seeds and rotten vegetables or fruit there. I do not recommend putting rinds or citrus peels in a hole in the ground because they take a very long time to decompose this way and build up fast.

Smoothie Making

Put your ingredients together in the blender and pulse until broken up, blend on low until it appears to be blended, blend on high for a short time, and then serve. Recipe serves one or two people. For a cold smoothie, use frozen bananas.

Flavor Adjustments

If the mint or thyme is overly strong for your taste, add more cantaloupe and banana and blend further. Or, if you're not a huge cantaloupe fan, consider using two bananas per one cup of cantaloupe. For some, adding a pinch of salt will greatly improve the flavor.

Thanks for reading.

Namaste

~ Raederle Phoenix

October 2010: 1 Month 100% Raw | Blog Entry

October 16th 2010

Are you hesitant about a raw diet because you're under the delusion that a raw diet is nothing but salad, salad, and more salad? Think again! Not only are there many desserts, smoothies, and even raw sandwiches (using lettuce or nori in place of bread), there is also raw granola!

The possibilities are endless. Lately I've been eating raw ice-cream with buckwheat granola and hazel-nut milk. It absolutely delicious, especially with fresh slices of bananas and strawberries. Strawberries really "soak up" the nut milk.

Another fun snack discovery: dried mulberries. I recently decided to try buying the mulberries located in the 'raw section' of Whole Foods and was pleasantly surprised by a flavor easily describes as "honey covered raisins." They are soft, chewy, and delicious. They've found their way into every bowl of granola I've had since initially trying them.

Besides learning new dishes, I've been learning new ways to eat foods, and new foods to eat.

For example, most people peal kiwis before they eat them. This is understandable if you don't generally wash your fruit. I discovered not too long after I met my husband (Lytenian) the importance of washing fruit, and noticed that when washing kiwis takes the fur off.

To remove kiwi fur: Use a scrubbing produce brush. This can be any brush made from naturally substances with bristles designed to scrub. Use this brush only for washing your raw produce. Scrub the kiwi with this brush with out without produce wash.

Produce wash consists of natural citric juices that cleanse away germs, disease, mold and dirt. When you scrub all the surface area of the kiwi three or four times the skin becomes smooth, nearly like apple skins.

It makes eating kiwis far less of a chore to not have to skin them!

I'm still on the fence about whether or not it's better to be 100% raw, or to make a few small exceptions for healthy things that can not be consumed raw. For now, I'm staying 100% raw.

~ Raederle Phoenix

[Currently I've been 100% raw for 44 days now!]

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Genetically Modified Foods Are Not Tested

“My only problem with Monsanto’s patents are that they don’t seem to have control of their product. Genetically modified crops cross-breed with those planted by organic farmers who never signed up to grow Monsanto product, and Monsanto gets to call foul. If a flat-screen TV literally walked into my house and wouldn’t leave, I would be pretty upset when the cops showed up on my doorstep to arrest me for larceny.” – April

We used to be a nation of farmers. Most anybody knew how to grow food. We knew how to tend animals, how to grow plants, how to harvest, how to store, and how to seed our crops.

Now, the common person knows little to nothing about growing food. Most of us don’t even know where the food we eat comes from.

Because so many of our ancestors grew crops, there was a large variety of “Land Races” or rather, there was a large variety in the genetics from one crop to the next within the same species. Be it corn, carrots or potatoes, we only now use 10% of the variety we used to have world wide.

Most of the variety that is left are in small countries that are not selling or producing on a large scale. This can and has caused major problems.

When you have a large mono-crop, when that strain of plant is weakened, diseased or plagued by a certain bug, then the entire crop gets it. In the past, you could just go to your neighbor for a different strand of seeds, but now, these gigantic crops must look out of the country to find different strains to replant.

Because so many of us are unfamiliar with the process, we’re not aware of how little the common farmer is paid. We’re not aware of what’s done to our food, how far it’s shipped, and even if our food has been genetically altered or not.

In Europe, or Japan for example, it’ll say right on the package ingredients, “genetically modified.” In both of those countries the people voted against genetically modified foods. Here in America the foods have not been tested, and have not been voted on by the Congress or by the people. Because it’s not on the labels, it’s not even traceable.

Scientific Research on Genetically Modified Plants;

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.

An editorial in the respected American scientific monthly magazine, Scientific American, August 2009 reveals the shocking and alarming reality behind the proliferation of GMO products throughout the food chain of the planet since 1994. There are no independent scientific studies published in any reputed scientific journal in the world for one simple reason. It is impossible to independently verify that GMO crops such as Monsanto Roundup Ready Soybeans or MON8110 GMO maize perform as the company claims, or that, as the company also claims, that they have no harmful side effects because the GMO companies forbid such tests!

That’s right. As a precondition to buy seeds, either to plant for crops or to use in research study, Monsanto and the gene giant companies must first sign an End User Agreement with the company. For the past decade, the period when the greatest proliferation of GMO seeds in agriculture has taken place, Monsanto, Pioneer (DuPont) and Syngenta require anyone buying their GMO seeds to sign an agreement that explicitly forbids that the seeds be used for any independent research. Scientists are prohibited from testing a seed to explore under what conditions it flourishes or even fails. They cannot compare any characteristics of the GMO seed with any other GMO or non-GMO seeds from another company. Most alarming, they are prohibited from examining whether the genetically modified crops lead to unintended side-effects either in the environment or in animals or humans.

A recent shocking study showed that hamsters being fed genetically modified soy went sterile as well as some other shocking side effects; such as growing hair on the insides of their mouths.

If you’re still not convinced you should boycott Monsanto’s products for your health and for the good of the world, check out The Monsanto Files.

“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe for the safety of biotech food, our interest is in selling as much as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.”

Phil Angell

Director of Corporate Communication – Monsanto

New York Times, Oct. 25, 1998

Here is another lovely reason to boycott Monsanto; The use of RoundUp and GMOs is leading to procedures than will lower crop yields and raise food prices.

For more on this topic, watch this fascinating documentary that explains the entire process of genetically modifying plants: Watch The Documentary: The Future Of Food

Stop buying Monsanto’s products. Now, please.

Thank you.