Food is Your Best Medicine - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Food is Your Best Medicine

by: Dr. Jeff Prystupa

I presented some of this information in the article on Enzymes. So many have asked me to expand on the subject, I have written this more in-depth analysis. 'Food is your best medicine,' and hopefully we will learn a little more about how to use it properly.

Foods are classified as fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Proteins and fats take longer to digest than carbohydrates. Hunger is triggered by the pituitary gland as it monitors blood sugar (glucose) levels. The body is better at making its own glucose than it is at eating, digesting and absorbing it. Digestion and absoption problems arise when foods of different digestive rates are eaten together. Knowledge of the use of enzyme supplements is necessary in order to keep our digestion system working properly and thereby avoiding some major diseases affecting us 'modern' persons and also to keep us from getting colds, flus, and infections. As I said, don't look for major advertising campaigns about the benefits of enzymes. They are not patentable and therefore can't be exploited by the drug companies for injust gain - I mean ‘tremendous profits.’

The problem with sugar is that it is a highly-refined drug produced by grinding up beets and cane, and that highly-refined drugs are not foods. All of the good stuff, that comes out of the ground - fiber, minerals, vitamins and enzymes have been stripped away. This refining process leaves a chemical shell that has only a ‘drug’ and not a ‘food’ effect. During this post-holiday season, after visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads, sugar cookies sprinkled with colored sugar, candy canes, pies, cakes, candied sweet potatoes, cranberry salads, the sugar-laden whatever, many people fall victim to the 'flu.' Well, it must be - FLU SEASON! Time to get your flu shots?

Happens every year. Right about this same time. Flu season. As my kids would say - "DUH?" Maybe we get sick after the holidays because we have trashed our immunity by eating too much sugar? Maybe the fact that we get sick if someone in Larimer County sneezes is because 'anything' would get us sick with our immunity being as low as it is. Rather than some new hybrid superbug being loose, perhaps we are too weak?

Last year, there were 56 different kinds of ‘flu’ known to person. The flu shot supposedly gave immunity for six. Chances of hitting the immune system lottery? One in nine. Not good enough for me to roll up my sleeve. I’ll stick with my enzymes and take my chances. It still isn’t clear to me why injecting known diseases into healthy people is supposed to make them healthier. Seems like trying to make someone rich by giving them debt. This barbaric practice of shooting disease into the bloodstream (immunizations) has been suspected as a cause of the cancer epidemic in humans and in our dogs.

THE SUGAR ROLLER COASTER:

Refined sugar causes an over-production of insulin and this creates a vicious crash-and-burn cycle like an energy roller coaster - up and down. Pepsi and snickers. Sweet roll and coffee. Surge. Blast. "All the caffeine - twice the sugar." We get addicted. Oh, it's not an addiction? Go ahead then, quit. Seriously, if you eat the following 'foods,' you are probably a sugar addict. Potato chips. Candy bars. Granola bars. Canned 'pop.' Ice cream. Donuts. Scones. Cookies. Coffee. MSG-chinese. Milkshakes. Add some others I'm forgetting. Quit sugar 'cold-turkey' and you will learn the meaning of the 'D-T's.'

The best book on this subject is: Insulin - Our Silent Killer by Thomas Smith, which is available at the American Freedom Network. In this book, you will learn about the damage done to multiple organ systems from uncontrolled insulin levels which are prompted by out-of-control blood sugar levels. It is absolutely imperative that we all learn which foods to eat and which to avoid. The glycemic index is a scale that can be studied and checked to learn which foods are stable for blood sugar purposes and which ones cause levels to fluctuate beyond normal healthy ranges. Although this information is not new, it has been kept rather quiet. Why? The answer is money and the dollars made through prescription drug sales. Act surprised.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH REFINED SUGAR:

For us to have 'that much' sugar in our stomachs, the pancreas 'thinks' we must have eaten a huge meal. Our pancreas is not aware of the recent advances in concentrating and refining sugar, therefore because we have such a large amount of sugar in our stomachs, the pancreas produces a very large amount of insulin, too much, in fact. Sugar, although it is much-needed and highly important in the body, can't get around the body on its own. Sugar needs the insulin to hook up with it and carry it around the body. Sugar diabetes is the condition that results when the pancreas cannot produce insulin. It is said of diabetics that they are starving for sugar in a sea of sugar. They have it present in their bodies, but they can't use it. Sometimes this inability to produce insulin is genetic, and more often it is acquired from burning out the beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans (pancreas), where insulin is produced. After whipping that poor horse for all those years, it finally dies - burned out. With no insulin to transport sugar across cell membranes, the brain shuts down. We probably have all felt the early signs and signals of the brain shutting down from a lack of glucose. Diabetics can fall into a coma and die from this.

Sugary foods and carbohydrates digest rather quickly. They pretty much fall apart on their own and don't need a lot of 'mushing around' or digestive juice breakdown. Breaking down carbos is a lot easier than breaking apart the cell structure of proteins and fats. It is a good idea to separate these groups by time in order to optimize digestion and absorption and reduce the ill-effects of indigestion/malabsorption.

Sugar must be kept in balance with the other types of foods. Too much sugar ‘spoils’ digestion and causes food to be broken down by a fermentation, rather than a digestive, process. This causes both personal and social discomfort - if you - uh, catch my drift - so to speak. The use of enzymes as outlined in the Enzymes in Health & Illness.

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