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| According to diet surveys conducted by the USDA, the average American consumes 20 teaspoons of added sugar each day. Other sugars found commonly in food are maltose (malt sugar) and lactose (milk sugar). The properly functioning human organism can produce all the glucose the brain needs through the digestion of whole, natural, unprocessed foods. Just as important, often many forms of sugar are listed on the label and that the total of the combined forms of sugar could add up to even more than the first ingredient listed. The bottom line is that while the names change, the nutritional value of most sugars used in processed foods is nearly identical. Of the 120 pounds of refined sweeteners ingested each year, 70% can be found in manufactured foods. Today, sugar can be found not only in desserts and snack foods but also in such unlikely foods as canned vegetables and fish, most baby formulas and some baby foods. These valuable substances, therefore, must come from somewhere else in the body to metabolize sugar properly. Therefore, the hypothalamus prepares for an increase of glucose. That substance is called Stevia. It is totally safe and has been used for centuries by the Indians of South America where it grows wild. |
| Increased Fruit/Vegetable Consumption Meyer's Cocktail Multiple Mineral Supplementation Sugars Avoidance / Reduction |