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| etwald 10-01-2002 05:49 PM | Hi Wai, I still had a question I wanted to ask: Why do you allow people to eat refined sugar (sucrose) ? There are several reasons why a person wouldn't want to eat sucrose: * It's a refined food and thus has no minerals and vitamins in it, which are needed to properly digest and metabolise it (chromium, magnesium, B-vitamins, etc) * It's a refined food and has a very low energetic value of only 1/8th of unrefined honey. It has probably been heated and even though it has no proteins it ain't beneficial because of the reason above (minerals and vitamins get lost) * It's a big load of sucrose, which your intestines need to digest into glucose+fructose, using sucrase before it can be absorbed. Many people have problems digesting refined sucrose.. * I'm afraid it will cause mouth sores and cavities. Do you have some info on this ? I also have two alternatives: * Instead of using orange juice and add refined sugar, why don't you use grape juice or another higher-carbohydrate fruit instead ? * Instead of refined sugar, use raw, unrefined honey for the extra glucose and fructose What do you think of this.. Thanks in advance for your answer.. Ed, The Netherlands |
| Wai 10-03-2002 07:09 AM | quote:Because maintaining your energy levels is your first priority; when you lack energy while maintaining this diet (for whatever reasons; job, stress, no time to eat etc.) consuming sugars and oil is the most effective means to maintain the right energy level, to prevent unwanted weightloss. Unwanted weightloss will eventually drive you away from this diet. quote:On this diet, you will absorb all minerals and vitamins that you need, even when consuming much 'empty calories'. Consuming natural foods, our body has no problem at all to absorb all required nutrients; if many 'empty calories' are consumed, the body simply increases the absorption rate of minerals and vitamins (up to 10-fold!!!) Even consuming so much 'empty calories' (oil and sugar), my boyfriend still abundantly absorbs all required minerals and vitamins. Chosing the right food combinations, on this diet, ingesting sufficient vitamins and minerals is not an issue. quote:LOW??? It's pure sucrose!!! What magic energetic substances does honey contain that it holds more energy? The energy in sugar: 99.8% sucrose (= 49.9% glucose + 49.9% fructose) The energy in honey: 33.9% glucose 38.8% fructose 2.4% sucrose (= 1.2% glucose + 1.2% fructose) CONCLUSION: Per 100 gram, sugar contains 14.8 gram more glucose and 9.9 gram more fructose. (honey contains a minimum 19% water) So, how can the energetic value of honey be higher??? quote:If you have problems digesting sucrose, it wount help you to obtain energy. If you DO obtain energy from sugar, that obviously is no problem to you. Many people cannot properly climb stairs, but does that mean that nobody should climb stairs? quote:I've never heard of that. Since consuming so much sugars, my boyfriend did not get a single cavity (or sores). quote:Practical reasons: the OJ is much cheaper. Also, the increase in sugar contents are not that spectacular (and would require additonal sugar anyway); the carb contents of juices: 15 - 17% grape juice 12 - 13% currant nectar 10% granadilla juice 10% mandarin juice 9% orange juice 5% raspberry juice quote:Obtaining the glucose and fructose from sugar is MUCH cheaper. FYI; I'm not saying that sugar is better than honey, AT ALL, but consuming sugar is much more practical regarding the costs. |
| etwald 10-03-2002 10:47 AM | Hi Wai, Thanks for your replies.. I forgot one word when I wrote "energetic value". I ment to say the orgone or life energy or ch'i or prana energetic value. A quote from James Demeo Ph.D.'s book, The Orgone Accumulator handbook, page 81-82: "In The Cancer Biopathy, he [Wilhelm Reich] did demonstrate with use of a special fluorophotometer, that honey had about eight times the orgone charge of refined sugar, and also that unpasteurized milk carried twice the charge of pasteurized milk." "The implication here is that natural foods are highly charged with life energy, as compared with synthetic, devitalized, and refined food products. The treatments developed by Gerson, Hoxey, Livingstone, and others, appear to have independently discovered these kinds of nutritional differences through empirical means, and are clearly more advanced than Reich on the effects of diet and detoxificiation." Please note that this is not accepted by the regular, mechanistic science, but I'm convinced this is true. So, I think sucrose is much lower in life energy than unrefined natural foods. But because your diet is already very high in life energy because of the fruits and raw foods, it's not all that bad. Ed, The Netherlands |