White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan
Thursday, June 02, 2005 by: Dani Veracity, citizen journalist
http://www.naturalnews.com/008191.html

You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is it worth it?
Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest foods made with alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly consume foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.
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Mother Earth News
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/1971-09-01/Truth-About-Raw-Sugar.aspx
By Fred Rohe
The truth about raw sugar, light, dark brown and Kleenraw sugar. The facts of sugar refining, and what you should know about sugar.

...I have taken the trouble to visit sugar refineries in both Hawaii and California.
...Sugar refining is largely a mechanical process done in truly huge machines which boil, spin, filter and separate. Aside from water, the materials which enter the processing are lime, phosphoric acid and diatamaceous earth.
...All sugar companies use similar processes, as it is against the law to sell sugar which has not been refined.
...those mammoth filtration units the molasses comes out of which are filled with charred beef bones.... He explained that burned beef bones make white sugar whiter.
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Stevia - The Zero Calorie All Natural Sweetner
http://www.stevia.com/
Stevia is a South American herb that has been used as a sweetener by the Guarani Indians of Paraguay for hundreds of years. The leaves of this small, green Stevia rebaudiana plant have a delicious and refreshing taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar.
Stevia has many excellent properties. The body does not metabolize the sweet glycosides from the stevia leaf or any of its processed forms - so there is no caloric intake. Stevia doesn't adversely affect blood glucose levels and may be used freely by diabetics.
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