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HEALTH & HEALING
MY AFRIKA
WHOLENESS

such a thing that now we have raw attracted the attention and drawn verse effects of these on the human
sugar, dark brown sugar, light brown the ire of those in the health sector body. Yet these companies seem to
sugar and white refined sugar, and deservedly so… because the continue to thrive.
which are all processed from sugar sugar and/or food industries did not
cane. There’s also powdered sugar reveal and in some cases were found As Vishen Lakhiani of Mindvalley
which is ground refined white sugar to have deliberately paid to not only puts it, “Coca-Cola is a company
mixed with about 3% cornstarch for conceal the negative effects of what that basically exists to take high
anti-caking purposes. Remember I am calling MH sugar on the hu- fructose corn syrup and market it
starch is sugar. White sugar has basi- man body but to even blame these as happiness in a red can.
cally been stripped of all nutritional effects on fat i.e. fatty foods. To brainwash billions of
components found in sugarcane people to consume, drink
and is comprised of glucose and Most of these added sugars con- and put it in their bodies
fructose. We have sugar-beet sugar, tain glucose and fructose. Glucose a substance that is
coconut palm sugar and we have can be metabolized by nearly every destructive to
fructose which your own fruits may cell in your body, while fructose is human health.
not recognize since it is synthetically metabolized almost entirely in the Coca-Cola
processed from corn, sugar-beets liver where it is broken down into
and sugarcane to make a syrup that fat, uric acid and free radicals. Some
is about 90% fructose and can be of this excess fat is stored in the
diluted to make things like high liver and some is distributed to the
fructose corn syrup which is about belly and internal organs, some of
50% fructose. it travels in the blood vessels and
can form some kind of fatty
There’s a huge amount of MH plaque – the uric acid and
Sugar that is used for domestic and free radicals cause their
industrial purposes today and these own problems. Added
are added in varying quantities by sugar has been blamed
the manufacturer or chef. Naturally for lowering immuni-
occurring sugars like honey and over ty, obesity, metabolic
50 categories of MH Sugars are syndrome (a clustering
what you find in processed foods of at least three of the
like ice cream, breads, soda, cakes, following five medical
cookies, sauces and condiments (like conditions: abdominal
ketchup), candy, cereal, cereal bars, obesity, high blood pres-
granola bars, nutrition bars, mues- sure, high blood sugar, high
li, processed meat, canned fruit, serum triglycerides (fat in
juice drinks, sweetened yoghurt, the blood), and low serum
salad dressing, snack foods, boxed high-density lipoprotein),
dinners, energy and sports drinks, non-alcoholic fatty liver
jams and jellies, coffee creamer, disease, cancer, hyperac-
some restaurant food. It is used as tivity, diabetes, heart disease
a flavor or texture enhancement or and dental caries. There are
to increase shelf-life. These include those who have also made
agave syrup, molasses, dextrose, links between the consumption of has engaged in one of the biggest
maltose, corn sugar, high fructose added sugar and the increase of forms of mass brainwashing known
corn syrup, maltodextrose, glucose, triglycerides in the blood vessels as to man. It has funded research that
cane juice crystals – to name but being due to the effects of sugar denies the adverse effects of sugar
a few. These are what are referred on gut bacteria. It has been over on the body. And everywhere it
to by the name ‘added sugars’ as two decades since health practi- goes… Obesity, diabetes, and other
opposed to those which are found tioners sounded the alarm about the health-related issues follow. Will we
in nature inside the plant or inside amount of sugar contained in soft as a species rise up and start seeing
the honey before it’s added to prod- drinks – not to mention the assort- Coca-Cola in the same way we view
ucts. These are the ones that have ment of chemicals – and the ad- big tobacco?”

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