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SUGAR CONSUMPTION WILL NOT GIVE TYPE-2 DIABETES,
AS FEARED BY MOST PEOPLE
(©2 November 2013: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan, Ph.D.)
I am, most probably, the only person (in the entire
world) who have guts to say that sugar consumption will NOT GIVE rise to Type-2
Diabetes.
I have enough evidence to prove my point.
Based on my findings, I have been taking plenty of
sugary drinks, deserts and snacks.
In fact, today being the Deepavali Day (Festival of
Lights, celebrated by Hindus worldwide), I have been fearlessly enjoying all
kinds of sweets in my friends’ houses.
Let me prove my point. Upon knowing the truth, you too
may start eating sweets comfortably.
Let me ask you the following questions, and you please
try to answer that first:
White sugar comes from sugarcane.
Some sugarcanes (the stem) taste sweet, while others
taste bland.
Why is it so?
Does the Farmer add white sugar (as fertilizer) to the
soil around the root of the plant to make it sweet?
Can that be true that if he adds more sugar, the
sugarcane tastes sweeter, and without sugar addition, it tastes bland?
If that is not true, then, what else makes the
sugarcane taste sugary?
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Let us do an experiment here:
You select two acres of land that is NOT fertile.
(If you cannot have a land, you can use two clay POTS
with soil, instead.)
Mark one acre as “Control”, and another as “Experimental”.
Then, treat BOTH lands alike, when it comes to plowing,
irrigating, exposure to sunshine, and the like.
Plant both lands with sugarcane cuttings, to raise the
crop.
To the “Experimental plot”, ADD AGRICULTURAL LIME
(i.e., CALCIUM hydroxide powder) to the soil.
(In Tamil, we call lime “Chunnambu”. In Malay, we
call it kapur: this is what people rub over betel leaves before chewing it with
betel nuts).
In the practice of Agriculture / Agronomy, they call this
process “liming the soil”. It is used
to turn acid soil into fertile / alkaline soil, for increased yield.
Do NOT add the lime to the Control plot.
When the crop matures, you will find the whole lot of sugarcane
plants (the stems) in the Experimental plot taste very sweet.
Those in the Control plot would taste bland!
This experiment would convince you that the sugar cane
plant produces sugar NOT from sugar itself, but it is from the CALCIUM.
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(If you want to sweeten sour mangos, just scrape the
stalk a little, rub it with lime, wrap in newspaper, and leave it for a few
days, they will turn sweeter.
If mangos are prematurely harvested from the tree,
since the tree will not be able to supply calcium any more, the fruits will not
taste sweet.
If an when mangos are left in the tree until ripening
time, the fresh calcium input will make the fruits taste sweeter.
This is applicable to All fruits.)
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Please continue reading:
It is common knowledge that Pancreas, from the Beta
Cells present in it, that produces INSULIN.
Insulin is the substance that helps in the utilization
of sugars and carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates and sugars contribute immediate and
direct ENERGY for work (including our heart beat, blood circulation, breathing,
brain function, body movements, etc., etc.)
So, God, Nature, or the Evolutionary Process, has
given us Insulin.
In other words, we are created to consume carbohydrates and sugars.
In other words, we are created to consume carbohydrates and sugars.
We are NOT created to digest the cellulose cell
walls that are present in plants. Cows and goats can digest the cellulose, using the digestive enzyme called Cellulase.
Nature / God / Evolutionary Process has NOT
provided US Cellulose-Digesting Enzyme.
Therefore, when we eat vegetable matter, the cellulose
cell walls do NOT get digested in our intestine – they are thrown out of our
body as FAECES.
The cows and goats digest them!
Likewise, if God / Nature / Evolutionary Process ‘wished’
that we should not digest sugar (and carbohydrates), HE/it could have avoided
the production of Insulin altogether.
Since God/Nature/Evolutionary Process ‘felt’ a
definite need for these products for our perfect living, our body has been
provided with the ‘facility’ of insulin production.
In other words, we SHOULD eat sugars* and
carbohydrates. If we don’t, it can mean that we are defying God, or going against
Nature.
(Once, my colleague, who was my former student, in University of Malaya, assuming that he is ultra-intelligent, told me these words:
"The man who invented the use of sugar must have been the most ... fellow!"
I did not argue, but laughed inside me, contemplating on the arrogance of this guy.
No one 'invented' the use of sugar.
It is there in Nature.
Sugarcane is not MAN-created.
Sugarcane is an edible product.
Similar to any other food product, sugarcane too is eatable.
We cannot avoid eating sweet potatoes, for instance.
Sugar is part of our diet, and there can be nothing wrong about it!)
(Once, my colleague, who was my former student, in University of Malaya, assuming that he is ultra-intelligent, told me these words:
"The man who invented the use of sugar must have been the most ... fellow!"
I did not argue, but laughed inside me, contemplating on the arrogance of this guy.
No one 'invented' the use of sugar.
It is there in Nature.
Sugarcane is not MAN-created.
Sugarcane is an edible product.
Similar to any other food product, sugarcane too is eatable.
We cannot avoid eating sweet potatoes, for instance.
Sugar is part of our diet, and there can be nothing wrong about it!)
That being the case, how can sugars and carbohydrates
give rise to Type-2 Diabetes?
Well, you can argue saying that eating TOO MUCH of
sugars and carbohydrates is bad.
I do NOT deny that!
If you are going to eat FAR TOO MUCH of sugar – more than
what your body can tolerate, of course, it will damage the body physiology in
several ways.
The truth is, WHATEVER you do in EXCESS, that will
certainly damage the body.
No one would argue on that.
If you are going to drink 10 L of water daily, even
that is going to damage our body.
Of course, ANYTHING IN EXCESS WILL BE DANGEROUS.
When you eat sugary items, brain gives you pleasure –
it makes you enjoy it.
When you continue taking TOO MUCH of such
enjoyable sugars, your brain, upon recognizing that it is going to damage your
body, gives you a SENSE OF SATISFACTION initially.
If you continue eating, your brain will give you a
sense of DISGUST for the same food that gave you pleasure a while ago.
If you ignore the sense of disgust, and force
yourself to ‘push in’ more sugary food, either because you are made to do so at
gunpoint, or by persuasion in the form money or other forms of ‘bribery’, then, THAT EXCESS is certainly going to damage
your body physiology.
At this point, the brain, in the process of trying to
save you, induces VOMIT, by giving you a sense of nausea.
If you ignore that too by taking, say sour or salty
items for a change, and continue swallowing the sweets, that would, for
certain, damage the body, and it may even
result in the death of the body.
At this, AS A LAST RESORT, having no further
choice, the brain goes for another drastic alternative action that is
possible within its capacity.
THE BRAIN KILLS THE BETA CELLS IN THE PANCREAS,
and thus prevents the utilization of the sugar excesses.
When the beta cells are killed – in a suicidal
manner, insulin CANNOT be secreted any
more. Thus, the body can be saved from the serious consequences that can happen
if all the sugar excesses were allowed to be digested / utilized.
If sugar is not digested, such sugars will keep
floating in the blood serum, and also in the lymph fluids.
When the person drinks water and urinates, THIS sugar
excess will get out of the body, leaving the body UNDAMAGED.
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We call the above
“AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE”.
Friends, except for me, the entire world has been
saying that it does not know why this kind of auto-immune diseases occur in the
human body.
In fact, whether that be the death of Thyroid gland
(that results in hypothyroidism) or any other so-called Auto-Immune Disease that
occurs in the body, they all have the SAME reasoning as I have explained here –
for the first time in the history of mankind!
All the time, auto-immune diseases occur in body only
to save the body from an earlier death – this way, the brain postpones death to
a much later date!
In reality, the auto-immune diseases should be
considered ‘human-friendly’.
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If and when the beta cells in the Pancreas are killed by
the brain this way, insulin secretion STOPS altogether.
Such a condition is called ‘INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES
MELLITUS TYPE = I.
In fact, just about three decades ago, this Type-I
disease was called “JUVENILE DIABETES”, meaning thereby that only children developed
this disease.
Do you know why?
Because, children are the ones who normally keep on
eating sweets, even without recognizing the feeling of ‘disgust’ for sweet.
Then they end up with this Type-I diabetes.
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Now, let me ask you a few more questions:
If we eat sugary food or carbohydrates such as rice
and potato, insulin secretes to digest them.
If we eat a LITTLE MORE of those items, little MORE
insulin will secrete to digest all of them.
Some more sugary food would result in some more insulin
production.
Likewise,
If we decrease the sugar intake, the insulin
production also will proportionately decrease.
Further decrease of sugar intake will further decrease
the insulin.
Based on the misconception that eating sugar will give
rise to type-2 diabetes, the dietitians and health care consultants advocate
people to reduce drastically the sugar consumption.
When people oblige and nearly stop taking sugar, the
pancreas also (almost) stops secreting insulin.
When people continue to live with extremely little sugar
and much less carbohydrates for 40 or 50 days, the brain picks that up as a
habit.
In other words, the brain gets ‘addicted’ to the reduced
insulin secretion. That becomes the new NORM for the body.
(If a person smokes for 48 days or so, he will become
addicted to it. In Ayurvedic medicine, they have a term called “Mandalam” to
indicate a period of 48 days).
The above being the new norm for the body, if the
person suddenly takes a teaspoon of sugar, THIS sugar will keep floating
in the blood WITHOUT getting digested and utilized – for want of adequate
insulin.
At this point in time, if you take the blood sample
and test the amount of sugar present in the serum, for sure, it would indicate
the presence of PLENTY OF SUGAR IN IT. People would label that as Type-2
Diabetes!
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When a person’s pancreas has become ‘addicted’ to
producing very little insulin, if you do not take sugar, the blood will
naturally not show more sugar in it.
In today’s world, a major portion of the population - significant
number of people have already reduced sugar consumption. Yet, type-2 diabetes cases have been
exponentially increasing annually.
Why is it so?
Let me explain the phenomenon:
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All food items eaten by man contain calcium, but to
varying quantities. Some have more, and some have less.
Humans unwittingly end up eating MORE calcium than is
needed by the body, for its well-being.
All such calcium excesses get removed from the body
through urinations.
The problem would crop up only if and when a person
refrains from urinating.
I have found, and have explained in all my books the
importance of drinking about 2 L of pure water, and also urinating nearly all
of it, daily.
If a person urinates about 2 L, then, ALL the calcium
EXCESSES appear to get removed from the body.
However, nearly all the over-weight people, as per my
study, do NOT urinate that quantity.
Most of them void only about half a litter, through
about three or four urinations daily.
As a result of this UNDER-URINATION, plenty of calcium
that is supposed to get out of the body stays inside it, accumulating and
reaching toxic levels – beyond the tolerance limit of the body.
IN ADDITION TO THE UNDER-URINATION, plenty of the undigested
(unutilized from the ingested food) calcium that remains as part of the faecal
matter also gets absorbed by the cells that are found in the lining of the
colo-rectal area of the intestine.
(The above absorption occurs when the faeces turns
slimy and acidic, by the action of certain faecal bacteria, because of
ingesting excessive high fibre, over-ripe fruits, especially over-ripe papaya
fruit, etc.)
ALL these calcium excesses that stay within the body
behave as SUGARS.
The body utilizes the calcium to synthesize sugar, similar
to the sugarcane plant, and that in the first place, is what GIVES RISE TO THE
TYPE-2 DIABETES to the low-sugar consuming, under-urinating and
slimy-faeces-defecating person.
Of course, if and when the person becomes an
established type-2 diabetic patient, naturally, any little sugar
consumed is going to be floating in the blood, or getting out in the urine, in
an unutised form.
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If a person urinates liberally (about 2 L daily), and
if he guards his defecation pattern so that the faeces does not become slimy, and
if he keeps eating sugary food, along with carbohydrates, he/she, similar to
me, will NOT get type-2 diabetes at all!
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Well, friends,
I have given plenty of very useful and additional information
in this regard in my book “Diabetes: Causes, Cure, and Prevention”,
published just last year.
Please read it and restore your health, and also enjoy
eating all kinds of foods God / Nature has permitted us to eat, making sure (a)
that they are pesticide-free, (b) that your drink about 2 L of pure water
daily, and (c) that you urinate about 2 L daily.
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Well, dear friends,
All the above are written in good faith, with the
purpose of enlightening all my readers on the need to think scientifically
further.
As per Law, you must consult your Doctor and follow
only his advice and prescriptions, and not mine.
If and when my theories and theses are accepted and
approved by the World Health Organisation, and also by the Health Ministry in
your Country, you can then practice my suggestions, and not until then.
In the meantime, I will continue eating sweets and
carbohydrates daily, respecting the feelings of ‘satisfaction’ and ‘disgust’,
and enjoy life as is allowed by God / Nature.
With best wishes for a Happy Deepavali,
Yours,
Dr. Palani, Ph.D.
