Sugar substitutes

Some people who crave sweets and realize their harmfulness, or perhaps have disabled the pancreas and so cannot use them, and have not learned to re-educate their appetites, turn to sugar substitutes as a way out of their dilemma. Such a course is not safe.

There are a number of products on the market which are used in the place of sugars, but they are harmful to the digestive tract and should not be used. Among these are saccharin, dulcin, and glucin. These sweeteners are not allowed to be used in food products.

Saccharin belongs to the great family of coal tar products, many of which are active heart poisons, hence it is not surprising that careful observation has shown it to be a highly injurious drug. Under its influence the heart's action is lessened in vigor and its continued use may give rise to serious injury.

The re-education of our taste desires is easier than many people think. It begins by securing a knowledge of that which is good for the health of the body. It is then followed by a balanced ration of good food which in time becomes so satisfying that the appetite is satisfied without the former usual amounts of sweet foods. From that point forward the interest in concentrated sweets declines until, with many people, they cease to be sources of special temptation; the desire for them has been superseded by desires for better foods.

Sugar groups

FRUCTOSE (Group 2)

Another single-molecule sugar is fructose found in fruit and juices and honey.

GALACTOSE (Group 3)

The single sugar is a constituent of lactose which occurs in milk. The foregoing three groups of sugar are natural to the body and are proper food for it.

However, it is important that nothing hinder the digestive processes because delay gives time for fermentation of these sugars before they reach the blood.

THE MOST COMMON SUGAR
The sugar most commonly used is not included in any of the foregoing groups, and is not natural to the body, and is a very unfavorable food. It is "sucrose", a double-molecule wherein two single molecules similar to the diagram already given, are linked together, like one molecule of glucose and one of fructose tied together. These two single sugar molecules when separated are natural to the body, but when linked together they irritate any tissue they contact. They cannot be separated by the saliva in the mouth or the gastric juice in the stomach, and while they are finally separated in the small intestine and enter the blood as simple sugar, their separation is made after considerable delay, and with difficulty; and until they are separated they are strong irritants to the celles of the mucous membranes of the mouth, stomach, duodenum and small intestine. This irritation often causes serious trouble.

Sources of Sugar (I)

The term "sugar" is applied to several types of sweet substances, some of which are excellent food while others are irritants to the digestive tract while being prepared to go into the blood stream. It is important that we know the difference between the helpful and harmful types.

Simple sugar

First we will consider the form of sugar as it is found in normal blood as used in the body. It is known as a "simple" or "single" sugar called a "monosaccaride" because it is the simplest form in which sugar is found and cannot be further broken down. This is the form in which sugar passes from the small intestine into the blood.

The chemist says every molecule if this sugar is made of 24 atoms, - 6 atoms of carbon, 6 of oxygen, and 12 of hydrogen, associated together. He diagrams a representative molecule as follows; C means carbon, O is for oxygen, and H is hydrogen:

H-C-O

H-C-O-H

H-O-C-H

H-C-O-H

H-C-O-H

H-C-O-H

H

GLUCOSE, DEXTROSE, and GRAPE SUGAR (Group 1)

There are three groups of these single sugars, of which this is the first to be discussed.

These sugars are used by the cells to produce heat and energy as already explained, but if they are held too long in digestive tract they will be attacked by fermentive bacteria which derive energy for their growth by the bartial oxidation of sugar. The chief products of this fermentation are carbon dioxide and alcohol which will be a curse to the body instead of the blessing as was intended.

These sugars come from the juices of fruits and the saps of plants; even the starch of seeds, roots, bulbs, steams and leaves, like cereals, potatoes, mature peas and corn, ripe apples and bananas, is broken down by saliva, pancreatic juice and the intestinal juice to glucose, ready for the blood. (this break down of starch is aided by heat, as in cooking.)

During this process of breaking down starch to a single sugar it passes through two other states, dextrin and maltose.

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Strawberry delight

Strawberry delight

100 ml Cashew nuts

300 ml cooked rice

250 ml soymilk or water

1/2 kg strawberries

honey according to taste

lemon juice according to taste

Blend cashews and add the remaining ingredients, blend until creamy.

Cut and put some fruits on top.

Sugar and the kidneys

This concentration of sugar in the blood fluctuates from 100 milligrams of sugar in 100 cubic centimeters of blood to 180 milligrams. When it exceeds 180 milligrams the kidneys release the excess into urine and it is lost from the body. The level at which the kidneys release the sugar is called the "threshold". The constant handling of large excess of sugar by these kidney cells is held by some writers to be one cause of kidney cell damage.

Sugar and the pancreas

Sugar is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract into the blood and if large amounts are eaten at a time so that it enters the blood faster than the body can use or store it, the result will be a "high tide" of sugar in the blood. It is said that in this case the pancreas secretes a large amount of insulin than it normally does. If this is continued over a considerable period until the cells of the pancreas are depleted, diabetes could result.

Sugar

Vegan chocolate spread

2 tbs Tahhini (sesamy paste)

1 tbs honey

1 tsp coconut butter

1 tbs Carob powder

1 tsp beepollen if wanted

bit water, depends how fluid or thick you want it to be.

Mix all ingredients well and use as a spread on the bread.

I have been often asked why do I not consume sugar and food that contains sugar. There are many different sorces of sugar that I will mention in my later postings. Many are wondering how it is possible to survive without cakes, candies or cookies that you can purchase in the shop. Nowdays its not so easy to get food without "bad sugar". I have to be very selective in shop, reading carefully labels. BUT I have A LOT of other subsidies for "sweet" things, like fruits, honey (easy to get as we have bees), dried fruits . I try to eat food in its natural way, the less processed the better. So it became already my habit for a reason. I found some good stuff about how the body uses sugar from the book Abundant health.

Sugar is very important element in nutrition, but its nature and use are little understood by most people. The easy way to understand the matter is to begin with sugar as it is found in normal, healthy blood, where, for every thousand parts of blood, one part must be sugar, - the substance the body cells burn to produce heat and energy for use by all parts of the body. This blood sugar is derived from certain kinds of food. The body can convert a portion of the protein and fat intake into this sugar (glucose), but the larger part of the body's supply is secured from starch and sugar.

Storage of sugar
When taken in three meals to provide for 24 hours need, the supply is not uniform or steady enough; there is apt to be either a "feast" or a "famine". Too large amount would accumulate in the blood at one time unless there were some way to regulate it. For this reason temporary storage is provided in the skin, muscles and liver. The liver stores sugar in a "compressed" form called "glycogen", and on demand from the blood it releases it again as glucose for use as needed. When it is stored in the skin no chemical change takes place in it as simply an outflow from the blood stream and an inflow back into it which is called storage by "inundation". The storage of glucose in the cells is called storage by "segregation" which is more complicated than storage by "inundation". Shortage in the cells and release from them is thought to be under the control of the nervous system in cooperation with glands on internal secretion.

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Natural remedies

I have been picking sea backthorn on our field. They are very sour, but good for skin diseases, digestive tract and heart. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-microbiological activity. Berries are high in C and B vitamins and aswell they contain B12 vitamin.
We made berry juice and puted into icecube plastic bags, its so easy to take cubes by cubes and have a nice drink on winter.

We made with mum lip salves and aswell massage salve with cayenne pepper (lately cayanne became my favourite) I put cayenne into capsules for eating, into tea, make cayanne massage. Cayenne has high amount of A and C vitamin, and organic Calcium and Potassium, so therefore its very good for healthy heart, aids digestion and circulatory system. Cayenne has been known to stop heart attack within 30 seconds!!!

Cowberries or lingon berries.

Open door

God sees to it that a door of opportunity is always open for the christian. If one door closes it is because another is about to open. "See, I have placed before you an open door that no-one can shut." Revelation 3:8

Discovering Estonia

Merje :)

Happy Janne:)

Extraordinary week

Last week was for me just one adventure. First of all I went to visit my granny in Viljandi, and the same day we went to the sea, 100 km drive. On the way it rained so strongly and the thunder was so strong. Granny was so disappointed in the weather and she convinced me to turn back, and I tried to convince her not to give up our goal to reach the place. So I didn't even think about to turn back. So we arrived and came out from the car and were so amazed about the weather change, we just hugged each other and praised the Lord for hearing our quiet prayers. It was sunny whole afternoon and the water was very warm. Later evening I visited my good friends.
My 2 relatives from Boston visited Estonia, it was great to communicate with them and I took them to the airport to Riga. I was thinking that they will leave from Tallinn, but the same morning it came out I have to drive to Riga, Latvia. Good experience anyway.

Walking by faith and not by sight

my granddad:) my granny:)

I love experiments!!

We have been puting the roof..., it was fun.

my mum!

in Denmark

Kirsten:)

I have been here and there and never imagined that I will be here or there:)) I complately have to walk by faith and not by sight. I try to enjoy the present moment. My family is on vocation in Croatia, and I am having summer vocation with granddad at home in Estonia. I have been picking blueberries and eating them so much, done smoothies and pie out of them. Aswell I have been enjoying wonderful warm weather. On Sunday I will visit my granny and we will drive to the sea.