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Ohh nooooooooooo!!!
Ain't you guys ever read Sugar Blues by William Dufty? I have a small personal story here.
When I first started going to NA meetings, there were some old timers who babbled on about the harm of sugar, sugar addiction and whatnot. That used to piss me off to no end because I didn't think I had ended up there for over-dosing on sugar. I had problems that were a little more serious than that.
These old timers (some actually quite young in age, and none really old) always talked about Sugar Blues by William Dufty. I would tune them out. Hmmmph. Fucking idiots.
After I had been clean for about a year-and-a-half, I started noticing some changes in my body from the detox process. One was over-sensitivity to any drug I took, even aspirin (it would make me woozy). I avoided all drugs like the plague anyway. I preferred the headaches.
Then I started noticing that when I ate chocolate candy or drank soft-drinks, I got really tired. Dog tired. Beat. I didn't care much for chocolate because it gave me cravings - I would go on a chocolate binge, but hell, chocolate wasn't a drug, right?
Being curious, I got a copy of Sugar Blues and read it. It convinced me of the evils of white processed cane or beet sugar (sucrose) on first read. I had never read a foodstuff book written from an historical and economic perspective like that. Despite the anti-sucrose message, it was one hell of a good read.
I became one of the old timer assholes myself - the type who reads the ingredients labels on all the foods in the supermarket and embarrasses everybody by flatly refusing things with white sugar in them. (Did you know that that crap is in everything, even mustard and stuff like that?)
When I stopped using white sugar, guess what? I went through a week of light discomfort (compared to drugs and alcohol). I recognized the feeling. I went through detox!
White processed sugar (sucrose) is a food and addictive drug crossover! Dayaamm!
One of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on mankind is to lump dextrose, maltose, fructose and a whole bunch of other "oses" under the common name "sugar" as if they were the same thing. They are not, despite glucose, which is necessary for living, being the final result. Eating or drinking sucrose is like mainlining, except the way it is processed throws vital functions out of whack - and it robs the body of calcium, vitamin B12 and a host of other important elements in order to be processed at all.
Now I am not as strict on things like mustard as I was back then, but if there is an option, I will always choose the no-sugar variety. I also avoid that "high fructose corn syrup" crap too.
Believe it or not, that was a decision, within its own context of me being clean of hard drugs, almost as important as giving up the drugs to my present quality of life. My energy went way up, I completely lost an incipient high blood pressure (now it stays a bit low despite the coffee drinking and salt that I like), and whenever I go on my body cleanup routines of losing weight, getting more exercise, etc., my reaction time for positive results is extremely fast.
btw - I love honey. I sometimes make a wonderful fudge with unsweetened cocoa and honey (which tastes great to everybody and doesn't give you pimples either). I haven't made good friends with stevia, for some reason. I also don't mind the chemical sweeteners - although I try to avoid aspartame.
So y'all keep your damn Krispy Kremes. I ain't a junkie anymore. Y'all are.
Michael
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