8 000 scientific papers link refined white sugar to chronic disease

Posted by The Watcher on January 14, 2015 in categories Editors' picks, Health, Research

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One of the worst things you can do to your body is feed it sugar - not necessarily natural sugar like the kind found in fruit, but refined sugar. A team of scientists from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) recently pored through more than 8 000 scientific papers on how sugar affects the body and came to the conclusion that it not only makes people fat but also makes them sick.
The project, which has been dubbed SugarScience, exposes sugar as a primary culprit in the formation of metabolic disease, which can lead to conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Lead author Laura Schmidt, a UCSF School of Medicine professor, says her team's findings are comprehensible -- sugar is highly toxic to the body and vital organs, including the liver.
According to their investigation, nearly three-quarters of all packaged and processed foods contain added sugar. This sugar is typically listed under 61 different names, including things like high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), dextrose, evaporated cane juice and sucrose. It is often difficult to identify added sugar because of this, and current regulatory requirements don't mandate that suggested daily values of both natural and added sugar be identified.
A full listing of the 61 common names for sugar is available at the following link on the right-hand side of the page: SugarScience.org.
The result is millions of people regularly consuming far more sugar than they should be, leading to metabolic syndrome, a classification of risk factors associated with a host of chronic illnesses. If left to run its course, metabolic syndrome can lead to early death in the form of liver failure, heart attack, blood clots and various other life-threatening conditions.
"Too much sugar causes chronic metabolic disease in both fat and thin people," said pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, a member of the SugarScience team and author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, pointing out that obesity is an entirely separate issue from the extensive bodily damage caused by sugar consumption.
"And instead of focusing on obesity as the problem, we should be focusing on our processed-food supply."

SugarScience project exposes "all calories are equal" myth as scientific fraud

Part of the problem is that many people still don't realize just how much sugar they're actually consuming. According to Medical Xpress, the average American consumes nearly 20 teaspoons, or about 78 grams, of sugar daily, which is far more than the maximum level recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA).
A single 12-ounce can of soda pop contains as much as 9 teaspoons, or 36 grams, of added sugar, which is the AHA's maximum recommended daily level for adult men. Adult women, says the group, should consume no more than 6 teaspoons, or 24 grams, of sugar daily, while children should limit themselves to between 3 and 6 teaspoons, or 12-24 grams, daily.
The best way to consume sugar is naturally, of course, whether it be in fruit, vegetables or unprocessed dairy products. Fruits and vegetables contain dietary fiber and other nutrients that help buffer how quickly sugar is processed, protecting organs like the pancreas from having to work overtime to produce insulin, which can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.
SugarScience's research also reiterated that not all calories are the same, as is commonly believed in the mainstream.
"SugarScience shows that a calorie is not a calorie but rather that the source of a calorie determines how it's metabolized," explains Lustig.
To learn more about the dangers of sugar and how to avoid it, be sure to visit SugarScience: SugarScience.org.
Sources:

• http://medicalxpress.com
• http://www.sugarscience.org
• http://www.lef.org
• http://science.naturalnews.com

Written by Ethan A. Huff (NaturalNews)

Bill Gates World Depopulation efforts

As I mentioned in my first article "Taking off the blindfold" Bill Gates is guilty of huge crimes against humanity, the attempted hacking of the IQD RV being just the latest of his crimes.  This is an excellent article by Natural News that gives a very good synopsis of the dastardly plans of this so called "Philanthropist" to reduce the global population.  Before you scoff, let me remind you of the information I explained in the first article about the main stream media.  Natural News is one of the  brilliant groups that has continually brought out important information and facts, and launched multiple news stories to the public that the MSM have desperately tried to cover up.

Bill Gates, Monsanto, and eugenics: How one of the world's wealthiest men is actively promoting a corporate takeover of global agriculture

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) After it was exposed that theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic brainchild ofMicrosoftfounder Bill Gates, purchased 500,000 shares inMonsantoback in 2010 valued at more than $23 million, it became abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world's poor (http://www.guardian.co.uk). It turns out that the Gates family legacy has long been one of trying to dominate and control the world's systems, including in the areas of technology, medicine, and now agriculture.

TheGates Foundation, aka the tax-exempt Gates Family Trust, is currently in the process of spending billions of dollars in the name of humanitarianism to establish a global food monopoly dominated by genetically-modified (GM) crops and seeds. And based on the Gates family's history of involvement in world affairs, it appears that one of its main goals besides simply establishing corporate control of the world's food supply is to reduce the world's population by a significant amount in the process.

William H. Gates Sr., former head of eugenics group Planned Parenthood

Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates Sr., has long been involved with the eugenics groupPlanned Parenthood, a rebranded organization birthed out of theAmerican Eugenics Society. In a 2003 interview withPBS' Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head ofPlanned Parenthood, which was founded on the concept that most human beings are just "reckless breeders" and "human weeds" in need of culling (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html).

Gates also admitted during the interview that his family's involvement in reproductive issues throughout the years has been extensive, referencing his own prior adherence to the beliefs of eugenicist Thomas Robert Malthus, who believed that populations of the world need to be controlled through reproductive restrictions. Though Gates claims he now holds a different view, it appears as though his foundation's initiatives are just a modified Malthusian approach that much more discreetly reduces populations through vaccines and GMOs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus).

Gates Foundation has invested heavily in converting Asian, African agricultural systems to GMOs

William Gates Sr.'s association withPlanned Parenthoodand continued influence in the realm of "population and reproductive health" is significant because Gates Sr. is co-chair of theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation(http://www.gatesfoundation.org/leadership/Pages/william-gates-sr.aspx). This long-time eugenicist "guides the vision and strategic direction" of theGates Foundation, which is currently heavily focused on forcing GMOs on Africa via its financing of theAlliance for a Green Revolution in Africa(AGRA).

TheGates Foundationhas admittedly given at least $264.5 million in grant commitments to AGRA (www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Documents/BMGFFactSheet.pdf), and also reportedly hired Dr. Robert Horsch, a formerMonsantoexecutive for 25 years who developed Roundup, to head up AGRA back in 2006. According to a report published inLa Via Campesinaback in 2010, 70 percent of AGRA's grantees in Kenya work directly withMonsanto, and nearly 80 percent of theGates Foundationfunding is devoted to biotechnology (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).

The same report explains that theGates Foundationpledged $880 million in April 2010 to create theGlobal Agriculture and Food Security Program(GAFSP), which is a heavy promoter of GMOs. GAFSP, of course, was responsible for providing $35 million in "aid" to earthquake-shattered Haiti to be used for implementing GMO agricultural systems and technologies.

Back in 2003, theGates Foundationinvested $25 million in "GM (genetically modified) research to develop vitamin and protein-enriched seeds for the world's poor," a move that many international charities and farmers groups vehemently opposed (http://healthfreedoms.org). And in 2008, theGates Foundationawarded $26.8 million toCornell Universityto research GM wheat, which is the next major food crop in the crosshairs ofMonsanto's GM food crop pipeline (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21606.cfm).

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