If you want to avoid some or all of
the following diseases, you should give up refined sugar: diabetes, obesity,
heart attacks, dental decay, urinary infections, and blindness. The FDA would ban within 24 hours any other
food additive that we know is as deadly as refined sugar is.
You can actually suffer malnutrition on 3,000
calories a day-- the technical phrase is failure to thrive-- if you eat too
much overrefined carborhydrates,
which includes boxed cereals, white bead, and white rice.
With its link to hypertension, which
is a factor in hald the deaths in the US each eyar,
salt can be dangerous. Most canned
foods are over-salted. Canned peas, for
example, are 250 times more salty than fresh peas. The diamond crystal lurks in unlikely places,
such as pudding, cheese, and cereals.
But salt is especially evident in sauces and meats.
Mom and Dad seemed to thrive on
vitamins and would routinely consume a dozen or so brightly colored pills each
morning. But doctors have told me that
if you eat well-balanced meals, you don't need to take vitamins. Meals should also include meats, which
contain trace essential elements.
At a party recently in Scottsdale, I met a doctor of oncology who
insisted that cancer was one-hundred percent derived from the environment, largely
choices that we make over our lifetime largely in what we consume. And there is evidence that diet and cancer
are related. Some foods may promote cancer
while others may protect you from it.
Foods relating to lowering the risk of cancer of the larynx and esophagus
all have high amounts of carotene, a form of Vitamin A, which is in
cantaloupes, peaches, broccoli, spinach, all dark green leafy vegetables, sweet
potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, sinter squash and tomatoes, citrus fruits and Brussels
sprouts. Foods high in fats or salt or
nitrate-cured foods like ham and fish and types of sausages smoked by
traditional methods should be eaten in moderation. A good rule of thumb is to cut down on fat and
don't be fat.
